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- Text: parents choose to send you to Mrs. Eastman’s (school). 5 Miss Maurits: Well I was an only child and they just thought it was better to be in smaller classes. Interviewer: You, you mentioned, that you spent a good deal of time, studying music, voice. Miss

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- Description: including Interlochen Music Camp, YMCA and Toledo Junior League.
- Text: them (10:30) Interlochen music camp sponsor scholarships, a building in his grandmother’s name (11:30) what he sees for the future generations (12:20) How board members contribute to their community, help family members do their own philanthropy (13:45

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- Text: (14:00) Discuss the family connection with the foundation (16:00) They describe their father, Louis Upton (20:00) Woods gives money to Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. Steve Upton gives money to Interlochen Music Camp in Michigan (26:00

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- Text: the same for over 100 years; it is a music center with 800 or more young people involved (15:00) New Horizons band is successful around the country; St. Sicilia Center has grown and bringing out great performances (16:30) They discuss the ballet which

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- Description: for about forty-three years total. She was involved with the Urban League, Community Concerts Organization, and Baxter Community Center. She was Vice-President of the Civic Theatre, and established music scholarships to the Interlochen Arts Academy. Mary
- Text: outstanding educations and special types of instruction such as in music, dancing, theatre training, interior decoration and my parents too took an active participation in so much of the civic life. 2 Interviewer: I just want to interrupt you a moment

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- Text: there were parties like that at the Voigt House? I think so because… George: My mother uses to speak that way. She used to go there quite often. Helen: I think so, because your aunt used to talk about those little gold chairs. George: Yes. The musical

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- Text: a regular clubhouse? 7 Blake: Oh, yes, they, they had their own clubhouse, owned it, one of the first in the country to build and own their own clubhouse. The St. Cecilia was another, it was the first musical organization to build their own clubhouse

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- Text: … people they named-they changed names and they didn‟t play music-German music. And they were awfully prejudiced about the Germans and then, of course, when it came to the Second World War they were even more so. Because of the cruelty of… we‟ve never had

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- Text: be a regiment, with a band and the parade it, this, they would play patriotic music before the parade began. And often the parade started on Sheldon. Sometimes up around on Jefferson. And I could, I‟d run down the street and see all the parades, as a matter

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- Text: with courses and lectures and courses in music, you know, the St. Cecilia Society came in there. Interviewer: Was that an important organization? Miss Perkins: That was very important when it was begun, and it was begun by some very important, society within

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- Text: meant to me and how she effected my wanting to be an actress. But when I was nine and ten years old, I was very involved in Park Church and there were quite an extraordinary woman named Mary Einecke she was married to our musical director Harold Einecke
