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Robert E. Barnett of Lincoln, Neb.; Robert D. Canty of Arlington, Mass.; Robert S. Dolven (Capt.) of Willmar, Minn.; Jack A. Hamilton of Kalamazoo, Mich.; Robert A. Hastings of Austin, Minn.; Philip C. Haughey of Framingham, Mass.; Richard K. Hurley of Belmont, Mass.; Edward L. Keenan of Orchard Park, N. Y.; Rodney W. Long, Jr., Winchester, Mass.; Lewis D. Lowenfels, New York City; Neil K. Muncaster of Winchester, Mass.; William M. Parmley of Salt Lake City, Utah; Dominic Repetto of Rockville Center, N. Y.; LeRoy H. Scharpen of Red Wing, Minn.; William M. Schreiber of Wooster, Ohio; Robert S. Treisman...
Guestwork. In Kalamazoo, Mich., after police refused Harvey Bogema's plea to book him for drunkenness and give him shelter in the city jail, he came back three hours later, sneaked into an unlocked cell, fell asleep while smoking and set fire to the mattress, was sheltered in the county jail for the next 15 days...
...hand at superintending-in Kalamazoo, Mich., New Rochelle, N.Y., and Kansas City, Mo.-Hunt started setting things to rights. A friendly, glad-handing Rotarian ("It's not what you eat that makes ulcers, but what eats you"), he could be ruthless if necessary. He put school jobs under civil service, withdrew temporary certificates, set up a series of stiff examinations for prospective teachers. He doubled his budget to $146 million, started a $50 million building program, streamlined his schools from top to bottom. He raised teachers' salaries almost 50%, relieved them once & for all from political pressure. "They...
...operas were done thoroughly to the first-nighters' taste, the chief interest centered on the second conductor of the evening. After Company Director Joseph Rosenstock had conducted Bluebeard, he turned over the baton to the youngest conductor on his staff: 23-year-old Thomas Schippers (pronounced shippers) of Kalamazoo, Mich...
Schippers transferred from a Kalamazoo high school to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music at 14. At first, he studied organ and piano. But he got a chance to conduct the famed Philadelphia Orchestra in a student contest, and that changed his mind. He worked as a coach for the singers during the rehearsals of Menotti's Consul, got his chance to direct it after the opera had already opened on Broadway...