Word: kuumba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Music has sustained him. And for 25 years, he has sustained the Harvard-Radcliffe Kuumba Singers...
Robert Winfrey, director of the Kuumba Singers, will step down this June after a quarter-century of dedicated service...
...years after the move, Winfrey had secured a position as a music teacher, composed the piece "Let's Build A City" for the Boston Expo, and had been offered the directorial position of a fledging musical group at Harvard--the Kuumba Singers...
Later that year, Winfrey attended one of the group's meetings brandishing a letter stating that he would not be able to head Kuumba. Before Winfrey could state his intentions, then-Kuumba President Kenneth Ingraham '74 announced that Winfrey was the organization's unanimous choice for director...
Winfrey put his letter in his pocket--in what he now calls a "pocket veto." Kuumba had won Winfrey's heart...