John Gerrish

John O'Neill Gerrish (August 14, 1910 – November 29, 2010) was an American composer of the 20th century, best known for The Falcon, a cappella piece for SATB based on the Middle or Early Modern English Corpus Christi Carol.

He taught for ten years at Franklin Academy in Malone, New York and was a professor of music at Kean University in New Jersey for most of his career.

Reviewer, Joel Newman, called the work "neatly-constructed, fun-to-play, but merely-cute variations.

After the death of his first wife, Marion Benham of Saranac Lake, he married Claire Stackpole of Winooski.

[3] Following his retirement, Gerrish was the organist at the Winooski United Methodist Church for twenty years.