Series 1: Oral History
Folder 1 – Oral History recording and transcript
Series 2 - Memoirs/memorabilia compiled by Vafiades
Folder 2
Clippings and photographs interspersed throughout the memoir include
- Photo of the NEC orchestra (clipping)
- Photo of pit orchestra for Irving Berlin’s “This is the Army” (copy of clipping)
- Photo of Ernst Levy, composer and Francis Findlay with students Wayne Barrington and Marian Jaques (clipping)
- Photo of Francis Findlay
- Photo of the music education students in 1944
- Newspaper article, headline: 88 Milton Lives Lost in Service
- Photo from newspaper(copy): Sarah Caldwell with Marian Vafiades (re: Opera New England)
Interspersed NEC Concert programs included:
- Nov. 5, 1942: NEC Orchestra (features Copland’s “El Salon Mexico”)
- December 22, 1942: NEC Orchestra (features Quincy Porter’s Poem and Dance)
- December 15, 1942: NEC Chorus and Brass Ensemble
- January 25, 1944: NEC Orchestra and Women’s Chorus
Folder 3
Loose Programs(NEC):
- December 3, 1943: NEC Orchestra
- December 6, 1944: NEC Orchestra
- March 21, 1945: NEC Orchestra
- March 27, 1945: Song recital by Nancy Trickey
- May 10, 1945: Concert for Advanced Students
- May 23, 1945: Concert by Zeta Chapter, Alpha Chi Omega (2 copies)
- June 19, 1944: Conservatory Night at Pops
- 50th Reunion invitation, May 21, 1995
Loose programs (other):
- December 12, 1944: Reading Symphony
- December 24, 1944: Messiah Lutheran Church, Roslindale
- April 11 [no year given', Philharmonic Society of Arlington
- April 24, 1945: The Melrose Orchestral Association
- Tremont Temple Songs Number 3(booklet of hymns)
- October 6, 1945: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Loose clippings/Bills/Receipts/memorabilia
- Feature article on Marian Vafiades from the Bangor Daily News, Jan. 24, 1985
- NEC Tuition Bill, September 9, 1941
- NEC Tuition Receipt, November 15, 1941
- Ticket to Senior Class concert, June 18, 1943
- Marian Jaques' ID cards from the academic years 1942-1943, 1943-1944, 1944-1945
- Invitation to Class Day, June 12, 1942
Loose Photographs:
- Photo of Marian Vafiades at the age of 7
- Photo of Vafiades with three classmates,Dorothy Gunther, Barbara Foss Roberts and Mary Keeley, 1941
- Photo of students apple picking: Barbara Foss, Mary Keany, Marian Vafiades, Betty Wood(1943)
- Two photos of Vafiades with classmates, 50th reunion (1995); One includes Vafiades with Barbara Weinstein, Barbara Foss, and Bessie Rouvalis; the other includes Vafiades with Eleanor Tower Norris and Sylvia Katz Factor
Series 3: 50th Reunion Letters
Folder 4
50th Reunion Booklet, Classes of 1944, 1945, and 1946
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