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Read while you hear
Jingle Bells
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He was put on a religious path early on. At just over one month of age he had been enlisted in the Cradle Roll Department of Faith Methodist Church, Trenton,  MI.   This eventually led him to attendance at Hillsdale’s College Baptist Church (American Baptist Convention).
In .childhood he was to become a participant in Sunday school activities including at least one 
Christmas pageant in which he was a bathrobe-clad shepherd and another in which he played piano accompaniment to A Charlie Brown Christmas.  When he reached high-school age, he played on the Sunday school softball team.
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Alas, Kurt’s formative years were not to continue between those speakers.  There came an interruption to the humdrum life on Norwood Drive.  First, Kurt’s father had accepted a position as chairman of the Chemistry Department at Hillsdale (MI) College.  Second, the Herbener family was going to spend six weeks at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, where Kurt’s dad would complete assembling credits for a second Master’s degree, one entitled a Master’s of Science in Chemistry Teaching to be awarded by the University of New Hampshire.  At the close of the summer term the Herbeners and their retrieved from storage furniture arrived at their new home in Hillsdale almost simultaneously.  Fortunately, or unfortunately, there was no room for Kurt’s cradle, by now replaced by a larger daytime bed, a bassinet with wheels, between the speakers.  That “sound surrounded” space was now occupied by a fireplace. 

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