Fab Gifts

 Over the years I've gotten quite a few gifts from students and parents.  Over the past few years Timmies and Starbucks cards have been popular.  I've also been given bottles of wine, restaurant cards, chocolates, homemade cookies... all the 'standard fare'.  Teaching rotary music and not having a homeroom class for the last 23 years means I get less stuff - which is just fine with me - but it also means that some of the gifts have had musical thoughtfulness put into them.  Some of them have been nothing short of FABulous:

Written on the inside cover:  To Mr. Farrer from Sarah

Official Beatles Tie Tacks purchased in England for me.

Beatles mugs - complete with signatures

A student's dad had bought this belt buckle as a teenager and was going to throw it out.  It was rescued and given to me as a gift.

A Beatles shirt gift from a student (wish I could fit into it)

A bag from "The Beatles Story", Liverpool, England

A picture given to me of the Fab Four that was taken in Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum in London, England

A student's mom had purchased this T-shirt in 1980 and since it no longer fit, she was going to throw it out.  The student asked if she could bring it to school and give it to me.

A 596 page chronology from July 7, 1902 (Paul McCartney's Dad's birth) to to November 12, 1993 (Paul's Tokyo concert) and all the recording notes in between.  It's a hard read.  (I'm still working it)