This weekend Kari and I had the opportunity to see the performance that was a product of Allison Orr‘s class collaboration with the Middletown Water and Sewer Department. Allison is the Menakka and Essel Bailey ’66 Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the College of the Environment, and she and her students have built many bridges and discovered and created the arts in unlikely places. Here are two of her collaborators, Justin Giuliano and Michael Edwards ’16, after the opening performance at the Riverfront Festival:
Later on Saturday afternoon we celebrated 46 years of teaching by Abraham Adzenyah, Wesleyan’s beloved retiring professor of African drumming and dance. His students raised over $225,000 for a scholarship in his honor, and here is Prof. Adzenyah standing in front of the rehearsal hall named for him.
After Abraham spoke, we were treated to a concert of music and dance, and on Saturday evening groups of former students and admirers made music long into the night. My legs still hurt from dancing!
