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10/29/07
Seventeen-year-old Teresa Blackstone needed a dress. And not just any dress. She needed something special, a dress suitable for her new role as a vivacious young performer with the Weldon J. Irvine Singers, a popular community-based chorus made up of teachers and students from Annapolis' Bates High School. "My uniform was supposed to be a black dress, but I didn't have one. People only wore black dresses for funerals!" So off she went with her father into town, looking for that special dress, but there was none to be found.
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The Weldon Irvine Singers in 1948. Teresa Blackstone Calvin is in the first row, third from left.Find Us On Facebook
That's not to say there weren't any pretty black dresses in fashionable shops in Annapolis. But Teresa couldn't...
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