Alumni responded with enthusiasm to PAW’s invitation to describe their most unforgettable concerts on campus.
“The concert was nearly 40 years ago, but I still remember it as though it were yesterday,” JUDITH E. SCHAEFFER ’74 wrote about a concert in Alexander Hall her junior year given by a young Bette Midler, “just getting her start at fame.”
For HOWARD KELLER ’56, it was hearing “the spellbinding tone” of jazz saxophone player Paul Desmond, who appeared along with Dave Brubeck. “It made me fall in love with jazz, play the sax, and realize balance in life is important,” Keller wrote.
Like many alums, MARGARET RUSSELL ’79 mentioned Bruce Springsteen’s 1978 concert in Jadwin. But her funniest memory, she wrote in a Facebook posting, “was senior year, when my dear advisees from Foulke Hall took me to see the Ramones because I had never heard of them: Second row ... no earplugs ... wow!”