Thomas Tarpley

Randyll Tarly’s second son and one of Tyrell vassals, he remains true to his family.

He operates his own music production company in his free time and has also performed with various bands across northwest Louisiana.

Early Life and Education

Tarpley is the Founder and Artistic Director of Notes by the Bay Music Festival, an interactive children’s music program in California. Additionally, she performs violin with Violins of Hope to bring life and history of Holocaust victims through their instruments.

She has performed solo with orchestras around the globe and collaborated with internationally-acclaimed artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Mark Kaplan, Nobuko Imai, and Ralph Kirshbaum.

William Chafe conducted this oral history interview with Thomas Tarpley in 1975 and produced this transcript of their oral history interview. Topics discussed included incidents of discrimination such as using derogatory terms like colored and Negro and attempts at equalizing black teacher salaries.

Professional Career

He is a member of both the American College of Surgeons and Society for Black Academic Surgeons, as well as serving on many dissertation committees in sociology and women’s studies at Vanderbilt.

Thomas helped lead Youngstown State to several Horizon League championships during his time there, serving as team ace both years and winning 19 games with a 3.42 ERA – both records that still stand today!

Human Musique Productions is run as a side business by him in his free time. Prior to moving to Austin he was active in Shreveport’s music scene where he performed at night clubs and juke joints; hosting fundraising concerts to benefit victims of extreme weather conditions there; playing Latin and African music bands around Austin area and managing his company in this capacity as owner of Human Musique Productions.

Achievement and Honors

His dissertation research in theoretical solid-state physics earned him the Army Distinguished Service Medal and led to an appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Over his career he coauthored over 80 papers and presented on adsorption and exchange to over 400 researchers worldwide; several awards from the American Chemical Society recognized his research achievements while over 50 conferences invited him as keynote speakers.

Hannah Tarpley, Hannah Tarpley is a concert violinist who has appeared on two European tours with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and performed at venues like Wigmore Hall in London, Royal Festival Hall in Birmingham, the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and Library of Congress in Washington DC. Hannah also graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College.

Personal Life

Tarpley was a lifelong family man. He and his wife, Jo, shared many happy moments together. Additionally, he enjoyed music immensely and often held jam sessions with his friends.

He was an active member of the Methodist Church, serving on numerous committees and chairsing its District Council of Ministries in West Georgia. Additionally, he was an accomplished lay speaker who regularly addressed and visited many Methodist Circuits across Georgia.

Thomas Tarley had two siblings: Harriett A Stone and one other sibling. He lived in 1900 at an address. Thomas married Nettie Minyard on month day of marriage place. On month day of death place he was interred. 173 MyHeritage DNA test takers can trace their descent from Thomas Tarley.