• April 8.  Emmanuel Music gave a concert in honor of Principal Guest Conductor John Harbison’s 50th birthday (20 Dec. 1988).  His wife Rose Mary Pederson Harbison opened with a violin concerto she had played at its 1980 premiere.
• Katharine Ward Lane Weems died and bequeathed a pair of Spanish candelabra now standing in the  baptistery of our Sanctuary.  Born 22 Feb.1899, she was the only child of  Emma Gildersleeve and Gardiner Martin Lane, who was chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts from 1907 until his death in 1914. They lived at 53 Marlborough Street and were members of Emmanuel.

Katharine attended the Museum School from 1915 and began to show her work in 1920.  She designed the brick friezes and bronze doors of Harvard’s Biological Laboratories with two massive bronze rhinoceri (one pictured below) installed in the courtyard in 1937.

See also

• Gardiner Martin Lane
• Her other works including the Dolphins of the Sea at the New England Aquarium and the Lotta Fountain on Boston’s Esplanade.
• Finding aid (with biography) for her papers at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe
• Her Odds Were Against Me: A Memoir  as told to Edward Weeks (NY: Vantage Press, 1885)

Image by Daderot, WikiCommons, of her sculpture at the Museum School, Boston