Word: bwanas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began when Patricia Pilz '71 was designing lights for Gypsy--and six days before opening had no set to light. She called up light man Al Symonds '68, of Bwana Bus and Lighting for help. He'd worked with Paul cooper '69 and a few other standbys from Dunster House, like Randy Darwall. The next day a sign appeared in the Dunster dining room, "Pat's up shit creek. Come and help...
...BWANA BUS and Lighting is a small group, its regular members being only Don Blair and Al Symonds. In the summer of '67 there was a Bwana Bus with chairs and rug and ashtrays, serving both as a place for moving cast parties and as transportation to stationary ones. It seems that Bwana Bus gets thanked or credited on almost every program at Harvard. Now they work mostly for pay and are noted for extraordinary speed in hanging the lights for a show...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Call Me Bwana (1963). Bob Hope drops in the rough of an African jungle with Golf Champ Arnold Palmer. Anita Ekberg helps them caddie along...
Alan P. Symonds '69, founder of the Bwana Bus and Light Company which does technical work for over half of Harvard's productions, received raucus acclaim for his efforts to obtain the lighting equipment. Robert V. Edgar '69, in his welcome speech, immortalized Symonds with the following lines: "Dunster lay in universal night; God said 'Let Symonds be' and there was light...
...interior. Alan P. Symond's lighting still casts a few unintended shadows, but should be rebalanced by tonight, at which time also the all-important gaslight might be better coordinated with Mrs. Manningham's references to it. Among the citations in the program is one to an outfit named "Bwana Bus and Lighting" whom we are presumably to thank for some incidental virtue of this pleasant, unmemorable show...