Tom Keith has many wonderful memories of his mother, Grace Butler Keith.  Mrs. Keith was a public school music teacher in St. Pauls, N.C. for 40 years and taught private music lessons in her home.  She enjoyed promoting the enjoyment of music.  One way she did that was through the “Friends of the College Series” at North Carolina State University.  This series brought many musicians to the university such as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra.  She would sell tickets to the series and introduce friends and her children to the music she loved, thus developing her son Tom’s love of music, especially symphonic music.

Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra -

Grace Butler Keith Endowed Chair