Huntington Music Teacher Passes Away
Retired Huntington School District music teacher Enoch "Mac" McCune passed away in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas. He was 77.
An avid golfer, Mr. McCune was a big football and basketball fan and loved to tell jokes and stories to entertain family and friends. "He had a great sense of humor," recalled Joan R. Fretz, Huntington's district director of fine and performing arts who worked briefly with Mr. McCune.
Prior to coming to Huntington, Mr. McCune taught in Decatur and Marengo, Illinois schools. His Huntington career began on September 1, 1969 and run through June 1990. He taught strings throughout the district on the elementary grade level as well as at Robert K. Simpson Junior High School and Huntington High School. He conducted the all-district orchestra and performed with the Huntington Chamber Players.
Enoch Maxwell McCune was born in Dallas, Texas on December 10, 1934. He grew up in Joplin, Missouri, where he graduated from high school and where he was the concertmaster of the symphony orchestra for three years. He was a Boy Scout who earned the rank of Eagle Scout.
Mr. McCune attended the University of Arkansas, where he was concertmaster of the University-Fayetteville Orchestra for three years. He was a member of the Razorbacks marching band and was in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He later graduated from the University of Illinois with high honors in music education. He earned a master's degree at Milliken University in administration.
An amateur ornithologist who loved loved feeding his birds, Mr. McCune, served as a captain in the US Army. He married Carole Summers Blondeau in 1982 She survives him along with a brother, a son, three daughters, four stepdaughters, three grandchildren and four step-grandchildren.
Memorial donations may be made to The Nature Conservatory of Arkansas, 601 North University Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72205.