Genre

Yearbook excerpt

Description

Photographs from the 1978 Mneme yearbook, featuring campus events with Patti LaBelle and Geraldo Rivera. The caption mentions that Patti LaBelle's performance at the Fine Arts Theatre was interrupted by a bomb threat.

Caption

October

Rhythm and blues songstress Patti LaBelle dazzled a Fine Arts Theatre crowd on the 7th while dancing and bouncing on the stage. In what was basically a warm-up show for her upcoming tour, Patte wowed the audience with her music. A bomb threat, however, put a damper on the show by causing evacuation of 450 people from the Threatre. ABC newsman Geraldo Rivera rapped with students on the 11th about how he got where he is today. His talk covered his entire career, including his days as a radical lawyer and part-time political activist.

Date

1978

Source

Mneme 1978

Pages

107

Subject

Black Community

Arts and Performances

Campus Safety

Walter K. Gordon Theater (Fine Arts Theater)

Archive

Camden Special Collections, Rutgers University Libraries

Collection

Camden Yearbooks

Contributor

Isoke Senghor