Word: schermerhorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Lewis, 35, became the first Negro to be named music director of an American orchestra.* The Newark-based New Jersey Symphony announced that he would take over in June from Kenneth Schermerhorn, who is moving to the Milwaukee Symphony. The orchestra insisted that it chose Lewis only because he is talented, and not because he is Negro. Still, in a city with an estimated 55% Negro population and a recent history of racial frustration, the appointment seems astute sociologically as well as musically...
Died. Byron Schermerhorn Harvey, 62, board chairman of the Fred Harvey restaurant chain (60 restaurants, nine hotels, 35 retail shops) originally founded by his grandfather in a Topeka train station in 1876 to make the travelers' lot a bit happier, in those early days, by giving them good food served by pretty waitresses in prim uniforms, later immortalized by Judy Garland's 1946 Harvey Girls; of cancer; in Chicago...