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Corrado Conti, an Italian horn-player studied music at the Conservatorio di Parma. He founded an orchestra for light music and also played for the Orchestra Teatro della Scala. In the 1960s, he entered the Casa Ricordi as a composer of popular songs, sometimes collaborating with Danele Pace and Mario Panzeri of the famous Pace-Panzeri -Pilat trio. Probably his best-known song, written in 1968 with Francesco Cassano, was “Melodia,” sung originally by Isabella Iannetti, but made famous by Engelbert Humperdinck’s version, “The Way it Used to Be.”

Dr. Clinton Tyng Cooke was born on October 4, 1866, in Salem, Marion County, Oregon. An accomplished American ophthalmologist and dedicated amateur ornithologist, he studied at Willamette University in Salem before earning his M.D. from Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1890. He furthered his medical training at the Chicago Polyclinic in 1900.

During the late 1890s, Dr. Cooke lived and practiced medicine in Hutchinson, Minnesota. His interest in advancing medical and surgical technology was evident when he was granted a Northwest patent in November 1899 for a gauze carrier of his own design. He later returned to the Pacific Northwest, establishing medical practices in Salem, Oregon, and subsequently in Seattle, Washington, where he specialized in ophthalmology. In January 1905, he helped found the Puget Sound Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and later served as its president in 1909.

Beyond his medical career, Dr. Cooke was a passionate amateur ornithologist who collected bird specimens throughout Oregon and Washington, contributing to the study of regional birdlife.

In 1893, he married Edith May Harris. Dr. Cooke died on December 30, 1963, in San Francisco, California.

Geoffrey Cook was born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

He is a Canadian poet, translator, and educator. He studied at the University of Toronto (B.A. in Literary Studies) and Carleton University (M.A. in Comparative Literature). His poems and translations have appeared widely in such journals as The Antigonish Review, Descant, Matrix, Fiddlehead and Pottersfield Portfolio, and in the anthologies of Atlantic Canadian poetry, Landmarks (2001) and Coastlines (2002). His essays, reviews and interviews have been published in Books in Canada and in The Danforth Review, an online journal, where he was a poetry editor for five years. Cook is the author of the collections of poems “Postscript” (2004) and "Afterwords" (2018). He has been teaching in the English Department of John Abbott College in Montreal since 1996. Cook resides in Sainte Adèle, Quebec.