Word: elma
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BLACK NATIVITY, by Langston Hughes, is a Christmas play with poetry, dance, and gospel music, presented by the Elma Lewis School and National Center of Afro-American Artists, and sponsored by the Mather House Music Society. Elma Lewis is famous, and Langston Hughes is good, and that combination's rare but impressive. Saturday at 8:30 p.m., in Sanders Theater...
Obvious choices, notably Sen. George McGovern, were passed over--people who could deliver an address worth the time spent listening. There are many: Elma Lewis, the founder of the Boston Afro-American Cultural Center who received an honorary degree from Harvard last year; Saul Bellow, another honorary recipient in 1972; J. Anthony Lewis '48, the Times columnist who is returning for his 25th Reunion this year...
...Chairwoman was Joan Kennedy, who headed the list of noteworthies including professors John Kenneth Galbraith. James S. Ackerman, Fogg Director Daniel S. Robbins, former Brandeis Rose Art Gallery Director William Seitz, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Perry Rathbone, Boston's First Lady Kathy White, art patron Elma Lewis, and filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. Some of these sponsors donated works to be sold in the auction, like an antique instrument given by former President of Radcliffe Mary Bunting, while others helped publicize the event. But the real organization job rested with chairwoman collector Nataile Klebenov...
...only Doctor of Arts degree awarded today was presented to Elma Lewis, the black community leader and the founder-director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, which serves 325,000 people annually in 20 programs connected with the arts...
Lewis is also the founder-director of the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts in Roxbury, the teaching division of the NCAAA. Born in 1922, she received a BLI degree from Emerson in 1943 and a M.Ed. from Boston University a year later. She holds honorary degrees from four colleges--Colby, Boston College, Anna Marie College, and Emerson. She is a fellow of the Black Academy of Arts and Letters...