Cenizo Journal Spring 2014 | Page 8

Alpine’s own Julian Mock Gutarist/Composer Julian Mock. Photo © Luc Novovitch J ulian Mock began learning the guitar at the age of  two  from his mother Ruth. As a longtime music educator specializing in teaching children, she taught Julian’s two older siblings as well. Together, the five members of the Mock family traveled extensively in Europe, Mexico, and the 8 Cenizo eastern United States in the 1970s as a guitar quintet.  Ruth met her husband Jerry in the 1960s when both were attending Florida State University. She was pur- suing a master’s degree in music edu- cation and studying Asian music, and he was working on a master’s  in  Second Quarter 2014 Asian history while also working as a capitol correspondent in Tallahassee. His  political  column “The Mocking Word” was published in 20 different papers.  Jerry was 38 and Ruth 26 at the time, and she assumed he was a con- firmed bachelor. But some months later, when she was filling out forms for  a PhD program, he suggested she join him in filling out a slightly differ- ent kind of paperwork –  a marriage application. After she received her master’s the two were married by her father, a United Presbyterian minister, in Oneonta, New York in 1964.