Trio at the Piano in the Rehearsal Room at the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre, October 1964

" Judy Riecker is at the right in the photo. Judith Dow Towsley was a daughter of the late Ann Arbor philanthropists, Dr. Harry Towsley and Margaret Dow Towsley, who funded construction of several public buildings in the town, and at the University of Michigan. (Her mother, an heiress of the Dow Chemical Company fortune, also was active in local and state politics). Judy was wed three more times after her first marriage, to the late James Riecker -- and was known successively as Judy Riecker, Judy Manos, Judith Dow Alexander, and Judith Dow Rumelhart. She used the stage name, "Judith Dow," during a brief stage career in New York City, where she adopted the full-throated singing style and manner of the late Kate Smith, who was famous for belting out American patriotic favorites -- especially her signature song, "God Bless America." - Wystan Stevens