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  "The Jazz Soul of State" from the "1964 Franciscan" yearbook (pages 42-43)

  Photographic spread John R. Handy III working with San Francisco State College students who are professional musicians to do a series of jazz concerts held in November and December 1963. Handy started his association with San Francisco State in 1952 first as a student (earning his B.A. in Music in 1964) and then as an instructor teaching a special course on the Development of Jazz Improvisation and later teaching in the Black Studies Department.

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  "Vince Guaraldi Trio plays at TGIF party" from the "1963 Franciscan" yearbook (page 129)

  Photograph of San Francisco State College "Gator" Vince Guaraldi who attended State during the early 1950s when jazz was in the curriculum and his trio performing at an Associated Students "Thank God It’s Friday" concert. Guaraldi's drummer Terry Granelli was a San Francisco State musician that assisted John Handy in presenting jazz to the Music Department's Recital Hour program in fall 1962.