played drums in the BHS band then went on to play in the U.S. Air Force Band. Upon returning home he did union jobs with various
groups and started his own big band style group which played all over Western PA and Ohio for many years. Jack played drums in several
Butler Musical Theater Guild productions. He was also well known as a barber at the Point Barber Shop. He retired from playing recently
and donated all the charts from his many band years to the Butler High School Music Program.
Opera singer Marianne Cornetti performed on February 9, 2020 at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Herman.
It was her way to give back to the church and community that helped her career get a start, she performed “Then Sings My Soul: Celebrating 30 Years of an Operatic Career and a Lifetime of Music”.
Before entering the St. Fidelis Seminary in nearby Herman, Fr. Conrad lived on Polk Street in Butler. He was ordained a priest in 1946. Fr. Simon is widely remembered as a teacher, communicator and confessor. And till the end he was best known as a consummate gentleman and professional. Through all of his years of ministry, Father was known for his well-crafted and thoughtful preaching. On two occasions his audience was a national one. In 1954, he and fellow Capuchin Fr. Bertin Roll conducted the nation’s first televised youth mission, which was broadcast live for eight weeks on CBS network television’s “Look Up and Live.” In 1958, he also preached on CBS network radio’s “Church of the Air.” Father wrote two books: Master and Model, a life of Christ, and Brothers of the Sun, a brief history of the Capuchins, which had press runs totaling 40,000.
Glenn is a prominent guitarist, bandleader, arranger and composer. His music features in several films and documentaries. Some of his recordings: Chasin' The Blues (2009) Harlem Mad (2011) Skinny Minne (2012) Focus Pocus (2013) A Little Love This Christmas (2013) Uptown Jump (2015) Aint' It Grand? (2018)
"A painting I did of Butler (I wish I had a better
quality, but the painting is no longer in my possession), it was an
acrylic 3 by 5 foot and was displayed at the Art Center and the Brick
House
restaurant."
Claus Leland
"I wrote Remember Reeny to memorialize my mom. The book takes place from 1937 to 1947 and encompasses her life during this turbulent time in American history."
The Maridon
opened on May 8th, 2004. It is the only museum in the Western Pennsylvania
region with a specific focus on Asian Art and Culture coupled with German
Meissen porcelain. The museum — both the objects and the buildings that house
them — is the gift of Mary Hulton Phillips. Patricia Lowry, writing in the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, pronounced the Maridon a "gleaming little gem of
a museum."
The former YMCA now CUBS Hall was the site of Friday night "Tumble Inn" dances in the gym from the 50's to 60's +. Not sure when they ended. As a teenager, it was "Be there or be square." DeWayne Johnston