The following article was published in the "Rediscovering the Peninsula" section of the Redwood City Daily Journal.

Carrington Hall Aptly Honors Remarkable Teacher
By Joan Levy
 
   Carrington Hall at Sequoia High in Redwood City is named after a former faculty member, Otis M. Carrington.  You may not be familiar with his work or know why Sequoia  named the auditorium for him.
   Carrington came to Redwood City in 1907 as an art and music teacher.  He eventually became the head of the music department at Sequoia Union High School.  It has been said that he was very effective working with young people.  His students did so well that Carrington felt, in 1912, they were ready to perform Operettas for the public.  He found very little music  available for that purpose.  Operettas were short amusing musical plays that were quite popular at the time, but they were all written for the voices of professional singers, not school children.
   Seeing this need, Carrington wrote his first operetta in 1912, "The Windmills of Holland".  Over the next 22 years, he wrote at least 40 operettas suitable for school productions.  He tried them all out on his students at Sequoia.  Fourteen were written with Christmas themes.  With the help of B. E. Myers, a commercial arts instructor at the high school, he published and distributed his work as "Carrington and Myers, School Operettas".  His works were sold as sheet music and achieved some degree of popularity.  At least one, "Love Pirates of Hawaii", a 1918 light opera in two acts, is still listed on the Internet.  It was a particularly popular work, even in schools in Hawaii.  Carrington had never been to Hawaii.
      
(to be continued next month)