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Composer Olly Wilson, Founding Father of Electronic Music at Oberlin, Dies at 80
April 4, 2018
By Erich Burnett
Wide-ranging influences included spirituals, jazz, serialism, and more.
![Olly Wilson classroom photo from 1968](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/olly_wilson_teaching_1968_copy_2.jpg?itok=WSA0ZwIb)
Former Double Bass Professor Lawrence Angell dies at 88
January 4, 2018
By Erich Burnett
Longtime member of The Cleveland Orchestra also played jazz, craved adventure.
![Former Double Bass Professor Lawrence Angell](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/larry_angell_faculty_copy.jpg?itok=yR_T-Dc1)
Former Psychology Professor Ralph Harold Turner Passes Away
June 22, 2017
Communications Staff
Ralph Harold Turner, 100, of Oberlin, passed away April 16, 2017, at Kendal at Oberlin Health Center after a long illness.
![Tree branches with pink buds](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/fp_w360_h270/public/content/news/image/obit.jpg?itok=CTknyovF)
Influential Jazz Trumpet Professor Marcus Belgrave Dies at 78
May 29, 2015
Erich Burnett
Exalted in his hometown of Detroit, he launched careers as an Oberlin faculty member from 2001-10.
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