From February/March 2015: When Mary Alice Dunlap was appointed by the Bloomington City Council as the city’s first woman mayor in 1962 after the resignation of fellow Democrat Tom Lemon, it provided a cause for celebration. The former city clerk/treasurer was just the second woman ever to serve as the mayor of an Indiana city, but the breakthrough was short-lived.
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In celebration of Bloomington’s annual Week of Chocolate, Down Syndrome Family Connection will host a fashion show in Shreve Hall at Ivy Tech Community College–Bloomington on Friday, February 16, from 6–7:30 p.m.
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The driver pulled up to the house on Lake Monroe where Henry Upper waited eagerly to welcome the legend. Upper, then associate dean of the music school, will never forget the moment when the trunk popped open and he caught a glimpse of its contents. “I almost jumped back and gasped,” he recalls. The rear of the car was packed with a startling number of framed family photographs. “You see, this is what Bernstein did when he traveled. He wanted to surround himself with family. He set the pictures all over the condo so that every place he turned he would see a family member. That tells you quite a bit about the warmth and complexity of this man.”
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Morin khuur. Dayereh. Balaban. Kamancheh. The very names of
Shahyar Daneshgar’s musical instruments evoke faraway lands.
No major symphony in the United States has a female principal timpanist. Alana Wiesing would like to be the first.
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