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published on 04/19/07
This Week at Vassar in 1981
In April 1981, Vassar students had the opportunity to attend performances by two famous artistic figures in the same week. Twelve hundred students filled the Chapel for author Edora Welty’s third visit to the campus. The prominent southerner said, “I really enjoy this place and I’m so impressed that ya’ll seem to keep gettin’ smarter and smarter as time goes by. Or perhaps it’s just that I’m gettin’ on and I feel everybody’s gettin’ smarter.” Another aging artist, 64-year old Dizzy Gillespie, “blew the roof off Skinner Hall” later that week. Although a Miscellany News writer mourned the trumpeter’s inability to reach high notes that he could earlier in his career, the critic concluded that the jazz legend “still blows his bent-up trumpet as sweetly as ever.”
—Emma Epstein, Life Editor
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