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During the summer of 2019, Franklin College administrators met as a book group to enhance leadership skills while learning more about the experience of dominant and marginalized groups. The book group, which concluded a month of weekly meetings on July 16, consisted of 14 members including Franklin College dean Alan Dorsey, associate deans, directors and department heads from the college. The group read and discussed Why are all the Black kids…

"It opens up the students' ears to new timbres," said Cynthia Johnston Turner, conductor of the Hodgson Wind Ensemble. "For wind players to collaborate with singers challenges us to listen on another level and adjust our sensitivity." Bara and Johnston Turner, two of the most extraordinary faculty members on campus, can take on ambitious concert challenges like this because of the outstanding students they attract and train. Kudos all around on…