Chinese in Niagara Falls ON

Long-time friend RR enclosed this program with his Christmas card. His note suggested that we were both in attendance at this concert. Back in 1961, I had yet to make his acquaintance. At the time, I would have been in Mrs. Love’s grade 4 class at Maple Street School. RR must have attended a different school as he lived close to NFCVI and distant from my Chinatown home. From what I can put together, my singing group would have attended the Tuesday performance. Going out on a Tuesday evening with Mother was a big deal: transportation a hassle. My group had to have been “Little Swiss Misses and Little Swiss Men” with Miss Jolley as the conductor. Although I do recall her being a teacher at my school, my costume and hair for the concert are more vivid in memory. The girls wore large white, lacy-edged paper placemats fashioned into aprons and caps fabricated of similar paper. In elementary school, I had at least shoulder-length hair but on this occasion Mother saw fit to extend its...