I cropped her out of the previous photo because she wasn't in focus, and I have this lovely headshot anyway, but her's was the voice that people heard when the band played. This is LaHolme McClendon, a senior from Attalla, Alabama, studying science and literature.

I select these photographs because they are interesting or, perhaps, because I think the person will lead us on to glimpses of a full career and life -- such as we can get from a few obvious Internet resources. And I thought, for certain, we'd get just that here. A singer, an attractive young woman and, most importantly from our great distance, a distinctive name. But the Internet doesn't tell us much about her. She appeared in her local paper when her father retired from the postal service -- a front page, above-the-fold story, mind you -- and I know she died at 53, in 1979, but that's it.

These don't always pan out.

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