Vern Yocum, copyist, librarian, orchestrator and woodwind player, developed Hollywood's top music preparation office, servicing hundreds of performers from the radio, television, film, and recording industries. Yocum prepared, catalogued, and maintained music libraries for popular performers of the Golden Era. Among his many business relationships, Yocum is best known for the 17 year association with Nat King Cole and his thirty plus year collaboration with Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle. Yocum assisted trumpeter Cecil Reed in organizing The Musician's Guild in 1955, resulting in union reform. In 1961 Yocum was elected to represent the copyists on the team negotiating improved retirement benefits and pay scales, which are still in effect today. To see the Vern Yocum Library Collection at the University of Arizona, click the link: http://web.cfa.arizona.edu/vernyocum/index.html