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"2 Skinny Dorks" musical group performing at Lake Forest College's Commons Coffee House, September 16, 2004
This acoustic-based pop/funk band or musical group flourished in 2004-09--2 Skinny Dorks, later just Skinny--playing colleges and clubs/pubs in Ohio, Illinois, and in the east. In 2007 the group included frontmen Jake Blazer and Eric Penrod, plus…
"A Toast to Zurich," song for four parts on one folio sheet, hand-decorated by Ralph Fletcher Seymour.
The decorations recall those of medieval antiphonals, song sheets or books for monastic and church choirs. The song is for the Lake Zurich Golf Club, Lake Zurich, Lake County, Illinois, mid-twentieth century. The four parts are tenor 1 and 2,…
"Adulthood and Aging" psychology class, Lake Forest College, 1991
As published in the Lake Forest College magazine Spectrumin the Summer 1991 issue, this photo shows then student Dave Wakabayashi '93 (right, standing), Carrie Collopy '93 (left, seated) and Mary Beth Sirois '92 (right, seated) with some alumni,…
"Athena Lemnia [by] Phidias," a watercolor by Janet Land (Mrs. Henry J. Van der Eb), 1937, on the cover of an art class notebook
This blue and brown watercolor painting of the head of the Athena of Lemnos by Phidias was done for a standard sized college art class notebook, in June 1937, by the artist Janet Land (Van der Eb). It is based on well-known and reproduced copies of…
"Early Spring"--Jackson Park Lagoon, Chicago; photograph by Mary McMasters
This springtime view of the lagoons at Jackson Park, Chicago, was the first-place winer, out of 5,000 entries, in the 1933 Chicago Park District photography contest.
The creator, Mrs. McMasters, by 1940 was living in Lake Forest and took many…