Retired Glenbrook North teacher's book captures slice of Americana
An award-winning Glenbrook North teacher from 1981-2018, Piskel's debut book illuminates a 100-year-old slice of Americana.
"Resume March" is a 306-page page-turner that's got a 4.9 rating on Amazon.com, and lots of complimentary reviews. Piskel has a book signing and meet-and-greet scheduled for 6:30-8 p.m. May 11 at the Book Bin, 1151 Church St., Northbrook. The jacket cover of retired Glenbrook North science teacher Mike Piskel's first book has a photo of him as drum major for the Blue Stars of Lacrosse, Wisconsin, in the 1979 Drum Corps International World Championship preliminaries in Birmingham, Alabama. - Courtesy of Mike Piskel In 1997, he was named Glenbrook North's Distinguished Teacher. In 2013, he was a Golden Apple teacher of distinction.
Piskel wrote articles for Midwest Outdoors magazine and fishing publications, and capsule biographies of retiring teachers, then as emcee, he read them at the annual retirement gala."I'm not a writer, but I am a storyteller," said Piskel, convinced none of his stories translated to long-form writing.
Mike Piskel, a retired Glenbrook North science teacher, recently wrote a semi-autobiographical book on drum and bugle corps. - Joe Lewnard | Staff Photographer The modern era of competition emerged around 1971 with the founding of Drum Corps International to organize them all. In 1972, when DCI incorporated as a nonprofit, Piskel joined its world after a junior high pal convinced him to attend an Emerald Knights corps practice in Cedar Rapids.
At the 1978 DCI World Championship he performed in front of 31,000 people at Denver's Mile High Stadium with the Blue Stars; the next year as their drum major, the Blue Stars and other championship finalists played for 32,000 people in Birmingham, Alabama's Legion Field.
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