B. Harlan Boll
This past week we lost an Broadway icon and Gay ally, Carol Channing, who died this past Tuesday, at home in Rancho Mirage, CA of natural causes at age 97.
Upon reading her tribute that was sent to me from her publicist, B. Harlan Boll, I had not known that Ms. Channing was, in fact, born in Seattle on January 31, 1921, and later moved to San Francisco and attended one of the best schools in that area, Lowell High School.
(When I was in high school, my school’s choir from Beaverton, OR, which I was a part of, performed at Lowell High School every two years.)
According to Boll, Carol was raised, schooled and eventually found work as a model. Through determination, hard work, and her family’s support (not to mention a mandatory IQ test for which she scored one of the highest recorded results), Carol was able to attend Bennington College in Vermont that had one of the few existing arts programs in the country, majoring in drama and dance.
