Warmington, Ruth Carter

Education Warmington attended Clinton Grade School, and played trumpet in the Minneapolis Workingboy’s Band. Upon graduating from Central High School in 1924 (having entered high school at age 12), he played trumpet with the stage band known as the Juvenile Follies around the Midwest. On his 16th birthday, Warmington started at the Univesity of Minnesota. There, he studied traffic management, and began playing the trombone as the University Band had too many trumpet players. Warmington was ...