Terry Lee Harper

Terry attended Brevard College for two years, before transferring to UNCG and received his BA in English. While at Brevard he roomed with Jim Critcher. He met his wife, Mary, at UNC-G. Terry was a mail carrier for the US Postal Service. They were living in High Point, where Mary still resides.

From Goose Waters:

A real nice and funny guy, Terry was. We goofed around some at school, and in the hood, summer jobs. The Big C took his older brother, Lindy, too.

Terry may have led the best percussion band no one ever heard of, "CANTANA".

Waddell, Rebel Umplett, Burton Floyd, Freddie Fuller (' 70 0r ' 71 ?), Billy Kistler ( ' 73 or ' 74?)

(Andy Kozel , ' 73--RIP Andy) and me, among others, were all part of the CANTANA band at various times.

The band sprung from a summer job at UNC, painting all the campus parking stripes ---best job ever. We rode in to and out of campus everyday from the then physical plant on Airport Road (MLK) on the back of a "Beverly Hillbilly" style pick-up truck.

Cans, bottles, paint and brushes and tools everywhere.

Barely enough room for us all to sit on the side rails and on big cans.

EVERY day TERRY would SET THE BEAT, just POUNDING it out on a larger can with his real drumsticks, as we drove down Airport and everybody on board followed in with all types of percussion, getting in sync from Terry's lead.

We were LOUD, GOOD and we could ROCK.

The entire downtown and all the UNC students on campus would be expecting CANTANA riding by rocking out 4 times a day and we did not disappoint.

Students cheered us and danced. Large times indeed.

Thanks Terry

P.S. Sadly, no recording of any kind was ever made of CANTANA,

and so its unique, surging, haunting and unbridled music will

never, forever, be duplicated; lost in time space in 1972.