There will be a joyful noise Easter Sunday at Historic Trinity Lutheran Church near downtown St. Louis. That’s when the church’s new organ, with 3,199 hand-crafted pipes, makes its debut. The instrument includes 20 ranks of pipes restored from Trinity’s last organ, a 1928 Kilgen. Trinity, founded in 1839, is the oldest Lutheran church west of the Mississippi. The organ is now one of the largest in St. Louis.
When Donna Moog attends Contemporary Art Museum’s Space for Possibility gala April 26, it will bring back fond memories. Moog is honorary chair of the gala, which celebrates the 10th anniversary of the museum’s current building. But she and CAM have a long history together. She served as board president back in the days when it was called Forum for Contemporary Art, and led the board in developing a strategic plan that included a $12 million capital campaign for the current facility. She was also a member of the committee that selected the building’s architect, Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture.
St. Louisan Alex Freedman recently made his Major League Baseball broadcasting debut, calling a game between the Houston Astros and the Miami Marlins during spring training. Freedman, manager of media relations and broadcasting for the Oklahoma City Redhawks, the Triple A affiliate of the Astros, also was honored by the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters for ‘best play by play’ at its annual awards ceremony in March. The 2002 Clayton High School grad is the son of Ava Ehrlich and Barry Freedman of Clayton.
After a six-year hiatus, the Ladue Dogwood Parade & Festival returns May 10. The parade, a beloved neighborhood tradition for 20 years, was last held in 2007. “Then I-64 highway construction got in the way, and the parade kind of slid off the radar,” explains Charlie Hiemenz, general chairman of the parade committee. Maxine Clark, founder of Build-A-Bear, serves as honorary grand marshal of the event, which starts at Horton Watkins High School and ends at Ladue Middle School for the Taste of Ladue Festival. Don’t miss the T&S [SNAPPED!] photo studio, where you can be ‘photographed’ on a T&S cover! To enter, contact Mimi Baer at mimib93@att.net.
Work published by Dr. Ron Bose, Ph.D., and his colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine has been recognized as a ‘paper of the year’ by The Journal of Biological Chemistry. Only 22 of more than 4,000 papers submitted were selected for the honor. The article details the structure of two proteins that, when bound together, boost the growth of many breast cancers. Bose is a medical oncologist at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.