Mary Gwinn Bowe papers, 1933-1971.

Bowe, Mary Gwinn.

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Mary Gwinn Bowe (1902-1979) was active in a number of civic organizations in Chicago. She was on the women's boards of the Lyric Opera and the Field Museum of Natural History and was associated with the National Conference of Christians and Jews. She was an early trustee of public television station WTTW, former head of the women's division of the Community Fund of Chicago, and a founder of the Women's College Board. From the description of Mary Gwinn Bowe papers, 1933-1971. (Univers...

Women's College Board

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Lyric Opera of Chicago

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Lyric Opera of Chicago is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. It was founded in Chicago in 1954, under the name 'Lyric Theatre of Chicago' by Carol Fox, Nicola Rescigno and Lawrence Kelly, with a season that included Maria Callas's American debut in Norma. The company was re-organized by Fox in 1956 under its present name and, after her 1981 departure, it has continued to be of one of the major opera companies in the United States. The Lyric is housed in a theater and relate...