Someone You Should Know
March 2019

Dr. J. Paul Cochran is organist at St. John United Church of Christ. He received piano and organ training from Jack Ruhl in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and holds a Master’s degree in Piano from the University of Redlands and a Doctor of Music in composition from Northwestern University. Paul remains active as an accompanist, composer, and arranger and is a member of the St. John Chancel Choir and Worship Band. He is now retired from a career as actuary for Old Republic Insurance Company in Chicago and resides in Arlington Heights with his wife, Lana.

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Someone You Should Know
June 2019

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Elizabeth Brown studied organ with David Thorburn at North Park College, where she graduated in 1972 with a degree in Math, and went on to a career as a CPA and attorney. For most of her career, she served as Assistant General Counsel and then General Counsel for The...

Someone You Should Know
May 2019

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Lowell Johnson My husband, Lowell, began his life-long love of the pipe organ, and the music it could produce, at the Dutch Reformed Church in Roseland where his aunt was organist. We shared a piano background but once we’d settled in Deerfield, he began organ lessons...