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Year 29, No. 4
Celebrating 29 Years of Community News
September 25 – October 1, 2013
Harcum College Alumna Publishes Tammy Coil, Mezzo Soprano Memoir at Age 99 to Perform September 29 “ALONE TOGETHER: My Life with J. Paul Getty” By Theodora Getty Gaston
Tri-County Concerts’ Emerging Artist Series
the likes of Dorothy Lamour, Walter Winchell, Bette Davis, Marion Davies, Hearst and Henry Fonda and Gypsy Rose Lee. Teddy eventually became Getty’s fifth, longest-lasting wife. Now, for the first time, in a deeply revealing and pageturning memoir, “ALONE TOGETHER: My Life with J. Paul Getty” (Ecco; On Sale: September 3, 2013), Theodora “Teddy” Getty Gaston, with Digby Diehl, chronicles her
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Harcum College Alumna Teddy Getty Gaston has published a memoir about her life with J. Paul Getty, entitled “Alone Together.” Photo/Guy Webster
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n May of 1935, noted beauty and blue-blood debutant singer and Harcum College graduate Teddy Lynch ’29 had a fateful meeting that forever changed her life. In the dim lights of the Club New Yorker nightclub, her friend introduced her to “Paul from California”—a man, who turned out to be, J. Paul Getty. The two would go on to have a heated affair, spending their nights in New York hotspots like El Morocco and rubbing elbows with
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tumultuous love affair and life with the enigmatic oil tycoon and art collector. From the glittering nightclubs of 1930s New York to Mussolini’s Italy, Teddy reveals how, with Getty’s encouragement, she traveled to Europe on the brink of World War II to study opera. Teddy and Paul were married in Italy, but instead of going back with him, she stayed on to work and to perform in concerts. “Alone Together” recreates the drama and danger of living in Rome during Mussolini’s fascist regime, which leads to Teddy’s See “Alone Together” on page 12
Tammy Coil, Mezzo Soprano to perform on Sunday September 29, at 3 p.m. at McInnis Auditorium, Eastern University. ri-County Concerts opens its 73rd Emerging Artists Series with Tammy Coil, Mezzo Soprano on Sunday September 29, 2013 at 3 p.m., McInnis Auditorium, Eastern University 1300 Eagle Road, St. Davids, PA. Tammy will perform works of Brahms, Debussy, Berstein and Bizet’s Habanera from Carmen. General admission is $20, Seniors, $15, Children and Students Free. A post reception and “Meet the Artist” is complimentary. Call 610-649-2517 for reservations and visit www.tricountyconcerts.org. Tammy Coil has performed in many different roles in a vast
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See Tri-County Performance on page 5
Environmentalists Mary Pipher and Pieter Tans to Speak in Bryn Mawr Guests part of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church’s Free Distinguished Speaker Series sized Culture, where she tackles the ryn Mawr Presbyterian Church way we deal with traumatic inforwill host Mary Pipher, Ph.D., mation about the fate of Mother Earth. clinical psychologist, New York Following her presentation, a book Times best-selling author, and envisale and signing will take place in ronmentalist, on October 7 at 7:30 the church’s Ministries Center. p.m., and Pieter Tans, Ph.D., an internationally-recognized environmental Mary Pipher, Ph.D., clinical psycholscientist, on November 4 at 7:30 p.m., ogist, best-selling author, and as part of a Community Forum Disenvironmentalist will speak at Bryn tinguished Speaker Series on environMawr Presbyterian Church on mental issues. October 7 at 7:30 p.m. The speaker series, presented to the community free of charge by the “Mary Pipher takes on our planet’s Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church greatest problems with the skills of (BMPC) Environmental Justice Coma truly gifted therapist,” best-selling mittee, aims to bring light to urgent author and environmental activist environmental issues currently plaguBill McKibben said of Pipher’s book. ing the planet. Pipher and Tans will “She knows why we avoid and deny also suggest steps we can take to the truth and she knows how we can leave the world better for future genheal ourselves and our communities erations. even as we try to heal the earth. During her visit to BMPC, Pipher This book is a deep and true gift.” will discuss her latest book, The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our CapSee Bryn Mawr Speaker Series on page 4
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