Leonard Parker

2 Collection Items

• Remembering Ralph Rapson, noted architect

  Midday remembers Ralph Rapson, the prolific architect and dean of the Architecture School at the University of Minnesota, who died on March 29th, 2008. Rapson may be best known for designing the first Guthrie Theater in downtown Minneapolis.

  Apr. 1, 200859 minSave
• Voices of Minnesota: Holocaust remembrances with Lucy Smith, Reider Dittman, and Leonard Parker

  Midday presents a special "Voices of Minnesota" program featuring the accounts of three Minnesotans during the Holocaust of World War Two. MPR reporter Dan Olson's conversations include the experience of Lucy Smith of St. Paul, who spent her childhood hiding from Nazis in Poland; the recollections of Reider Dittman, who was sent to a concentration camp; and a description of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp by Twin Cities architect Leonard Parker.

  May. 7, 1997Save