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Boston Public Library Press Release News and Events |
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BERKLEE JAZZ PERFORMERS OFFER CONCERT IN MEMORY OF BPL’S JACQUELYN HOGAN March 29, 2005 Jazz on Wheels, a group of faculty from the Berklee College of Music, will perform a concert in honor of Jacquelyn Hogan, a 30-year employee of the Boston Public Library who passed away on Saturday, June 26, 2004. Members of Jackie’s family and some of her colleagues will also participate in the tribute at 11 a.m. on Saturday, April 9, 2005 in the Boston Public Library’s Rabb Lecture Hall in Copley Square. A longtime member of the Boston Jazz Society, Mrs. Hogan, with Berklee’s Jon Hazilla and Curtis Warner, founded the Jazz on Wheels program three years ago to bring jazz to young people and to families through performances in Boston’s neighborhoods. Through the program, a rotating group of volunteer faculty members from Berklee College of Music performs several concerts at Boston Public Library branches. The tribute to Mrs. Hogan will also serve as a kickoff for the Jacquelyn Mack Hogan Fund, an account dedicated to the training and educational enrichment of Boston Public Library employees. The fund will be a perpetual reminder of Jacquelyn’s dedication to her colleagues at Boston Public Library. Jackie gave many years of service to the BPL starting at the South Boston Branch in 1969. She served at many of the BPL’s neighborhood branches before becoming Coordinator of Services to Adults, the position she held at the time of her death. At the April 9 tribute, Jackie’s calm demeanor and friendly smile will be remembered through the music she found most entertaining, jazz. The Boston Public Library, established in 1848, was the first publicly supported municipal library in America, and the first library to allow people to borrow books and materials, a truly revolutionary concept at the time. In 1870, the BPL opened the East Boston branch, the first branch library in the country. In 1895, it opened a children's room, making it the first library in the country to establish a space specifically designed for children. Today, the BPL has more than 6 million books and serves more than 2 million people annually in its central library in Copley Square and in its 27 branch libraries around the city. The BPL is also one of only two public libraries in the country that are members of the Association of Research Libraries. All of its events are free and open to the public. At the Boston Public Library, books are just the beginning! -30-
Prepared by the Boston Public Library's Communications Office. For more information about news, programs and events at the BPL, call 617-859-2212 or send a message to the Communications Office. |
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