A Home In Hendrie Hall
“A Home in Hendrie Hall,” is an 18-minute film by Miriam Lewin ’80. It chronicles the transformation of both the Glee Club and the University over the past 50 years — in celebration of the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College. It spends a lot of time on the classes of 1969, 70 and 71, as women arrived. And it features more than a few recognizable faces of ’69ers.
1. Several years ago I attended a concert at the Music Center at Strathmore in N. Bethesda, MD, featuring assorted Yale vocal groups (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/09/AR2011010903329.html). The Glee Club under Jeffrey Douma sounded so great that I was blown away.
2. About those stairs, seen in the opening sequence. I was not a vocalist; I was a percussionist. Once in a while for one reason or another the timpani would have to be moved in or out of the building. This meant negotiating the stairs. Sometimes help was scarce and I decided to do the job myself. It’s almost unbelievable to me now that at one time I was able to clean and jerk a large kettledrum.