Former 1974-75 Co-Chair Ed Pepe is currently living in Oaxaca, Mexico where he is researching historic organs. In 1979, Pepe co-founded the Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies, a national not for profit dedicated to continuing education opportunities for university and conservatory teachers of the organ, harpsichord, and fortepiano. The Center also released several important publications, including a memorial to the American organ builder, Charles Fisk. In Oaxaca, Pepe co-founded the Instituto de Organos Historicos de Oaxaca to help protect the legacy of antique organs in that Mexican state. He now works independently and is writing a history of organs in Mexico. Pepe reports that, unfortunately, there are no historic carillons there that he is aware of.
In the summer of 1971, Pepe accompanied a small group of Yale Guild members on what might have been its first Europe tour. The tour was organized by the father of Sebastian Kent ('72) who was then secretary and cultural attaché to the US Embassador to France. Guild members, including Bruce Rosenblum ('75), played carillons in Bruges, Lille, Douai, and Rotterdam, among other sites and met Jacques Lannoy, one of the then great performers on the instrument. The group then accompanied Kent's family on a ski vacation in the French alps!