David Blaine Witt, 1969 Corks and Curls
David Blaine Witt was the business manager of the Virginia Glee Club during the Glee Club 1967-1968 season, and was also a member during the 1965-1966 and 1966-1967 seasons. Graduating in 1969, he was also a member of the Baptist Student Union.[1]
In the Summer 2020 issue of Virginia Magazine, Witt recalled the Glee Club rehearsal in Old Cabell Hall that was interrupted by the announcement of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination:
"To be in the relative shelter of UVA — at the time almost totally white and male — made the event seem unreal to me … The unrest of the late 60s was intanglible and distant until that moment. I remembered the impact of JFK's assassination vividly, but I didn't feel that impact in my life. The impact of Dr. King's death was real to us all, and I believe that UVA was a different place afterward—a place where uncertainty and protest were no longer abstractions, but part of our consciousness."[2]
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- ↑ Corks and Curls. 1969. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2250975/view#twoPage/uva-lib:2298138/1/0.
- ↑ Hall, Sarah Lindenfeld (Summer 2020). "Where Were You When…?". Virginia Magazine. https://uvamagazine.org/articles/where_were_you_when. Retrieved 2020-06-21.