Word: fining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that right? Well I'm glad you made this one, cause look at all these fine women they got out here today." He winked and chuckled softly. Then he put the mouthpiece of his tenor sax to his lips and made a sort of "zonk" deep in the lower register. Just behind Emanuel, I spotted "Booker-T" Glass, the 85-year-old bass drummer. He was standing erect behind the clumsy, weathered old drum. The painted letters on the sides were barely visible: "Olympia Brass Band...
...parade is called--had grown to maybe a thousand people. It was tremendous. There was a second line stretching for three blocks behind the band. It was just like the Mardi Gras. Above the head of the people, brightly decorated umbrellas began to appear. Some were very elaborate, with fine, plush layers of feathers on them. One had a big black doll dressed up like a carnival queen fastened to the top. Tassles, fringe, sequins. Green, bright yellow, and lavender were the dominant colors. One umbrella was deep red with black and yellow trimming, like a great flaming torch...
...about your business. Today, their business was music, dancing and good times, and they went rolling right on. The second line reformed. They shouted, they danced, they bumped and ground. The trumpets blared, the clarinet soared, the bass drum throbbed, the trombones moaned. All like human voices--fine, rich human voices, singing out their eternal song of life and death as they marched on down the narrow brick street
Miss Mongan was acting director of the museum after John P. Coolidge '35, professor of Fine Arts, resigned to devote himself to research and teaching. She is also Martin A. Ryerson Lecturer on Fine Arts...
During her years with the Fogg, Miss Mongan has been active with other college museums. She has served on the advisory council of the Colby College Museum of Art and on the visiting committees of the Smith College art Museum and the textile department of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Formerly, she was hairman of the visiting committee of the Wheaton College Art Department...