Word: evalyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four performers, Evalyn Baron, John Driver, Jeffrey Haddow and Roger Neil, play the piano in addition to their other chores. They are fun to be with. At one point, the quartet is upstaged by a duck named Hermione who is put on the piano. A delirious discussion ensues about whether or not the duck will fertilize it. Be that as it may, the evening is well fertilized with laughter...
...left the Depression-ridden South and moved to Washington, D.C., where he established himself on a wooden platform on F Street between 12th and 13th Streets. He joked and chattered and begged for his living. Women shoppers often took pity on the legless panhandler, and one of them, Evalyn McLean, owner of the Hope diamond, gave him a capuchin monkey named Gypsy. It did tricks for what Bernstein called his "clients...
...teachers, the students take their theory back to the neighborhoods by working as teacher assistants, community liaison trainees and the like. Of last year's 100 freshmen, only 16 dropped out, mostly for lack of adequate day care for their children. Typical of those determined to graduate is Evalyn Shaw, a black woman who dropped out of school after the ninth grade and is now over 50. As a C.H.S. sophomore, Mrs. Shaw helps spur high school students toward college and personally hopes to become "the Grandma Moses of education...