July 18, 2014
Howard Wood celebrated 50 years as organist at St. Peter’s by the Sea Presbyterian Church, in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on May 18, with a concert in the sanctuary and a reception following.
Wood began piano lessons at age 5; he first heard a pipe organ at age 12 as member of a youth choir at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Redondo Beach, and began study with Dorothy Tully, then the organist there, later becoming assistant organist at St. Andrew’s. His first Sunday playing the organ for St. Peter’s was May 9, 1964.
Wood retired in 2007 after 38 years as a choral music teacher at Monroe Middle School in Inglewood, California.
