Comments on: Peter Harold Salter

By: John H. Winkelman

John H. Winkelman — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 05:34:50 +0000

Peter was one of a group of intellectual friends at Lincoln High School known as The Clique and satirized by Steve Clay Wilson in his cartoons. It included myself, Sid Chesnin, Sarge Dubinski, Harold Haskins, Henry Schuman, Bob Kreiss and Richard Carter. Peter was a humorous and lively guy, a bit iconoclastic and outspoken, notoriously unsuccessful with girlfriends. He did algebra using only arithmetic operations and claimed to have discovered the
Pythagorean theorem on his own. He was a lot of fun to be with. When he was terminally ill he told his friends not to mourn him but to have an enjoyable meal.

By: Alivia

Alivia — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:24:09 +0000

i miss you grandpa

By: David Fowler

David Fowler — Tue, 19 May 2015 04:47:31 +0000

Peter and I were in the Lincoln Youth Symphony in its first year, and again 50 years later for a special anniversary concert. When he was an associate with the Pasadena Pops Orchestra, he and I collaborated on arranging a suite of fiddle tunes for orchestra, and it was a great thrill for me to play these with the Pasadena Pops at Descanso Gardens. I’ll always have fond memories of Peter and his love for music.

By: Barbara Chasson

Barbara Chasson — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 02:19:38 +0000

Peter was a dear friend, fellow alum from LHS and a colleague-musician at UNL. I last saw him in Lincoln 6 years ago, when we had several lovely reunions at his house and dinners together in various places (I have lived outside the USA and Nebraska for the last 50 years, which is why we were not in touch for a looooong time).
RIP Peter.
Please let me know if there are any funds set up in his name, as I will very gladly donate what I can to them.
Barbara Chasson
(violinis/violist-now retired)

By: Alice Berberick

Alice Berberick — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:01:34 +0000

Peter Salter is somebody I will always remember as an exceptionally kind, thoughtful, creative, intelligent, non-judgmental and generous person. He was very gifted musically and played the French horn sensitively and beautifully. I loved listening to his playing “Pavane for a Dead Princess” in the Lincoln High School Orcestra, in which I was one of the violinists. It is a beautiful piece, and he played it beautifully. I will always think of him when I hear that music. He was a talented composer as well.
It is truly a tragic loss to his many friends and his family for him to die at such an early age. He loved life and should have enjoyed many more productive years. The world has lost some of its brightness with his premature departure. I will miss him and I will think of him often, with fondness.