Alida's Parents

Jeanette van Dorsten Stahl and R. Crawford Stahl

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FOR CRAWFORD'S RESUME CLICK HERE

Jeanette van Dorsten as

• Valedictorian of the class at Evander Childs High School in New York

• Editor of the school yearbook

• Member of Arista, the Honor society

• "Most Likely to Succeed"

• "Most Charming"

• Piano soloist at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall and Aeolian Hall

R. Crawford Stahl

• Graduation with top honors from The Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester)

• First Rochester Prize Scholar at The Eastman School of Music

• President Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity at Eastman

• First Trumpet with The Eastman Wind Ensemble

• First Trumpet with The Eastman Philharmonic

• Solo Trumpet with The Rochester Philharmonic

• National Trumpet Champion in 1935 and 1936

Jeanette van Dorsten Stahl

as a bride

Jeanette van Dorsten and Crawford Stahl

on their wedding day

• Pilot of a B-26 Bomber in World War II

• Flew 65 combat missions over Europe (the first two on D-Day)

• Awarded THE DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS (for valor in the Battle of the Bulge)

• Awarded THE AIR MEDAL (thirteen times)

• Awarded THE EUROPEAN THEATER MEDAL (with five battle stars)

• Awarded THE PRESIDENTIAL CITATION (for greatest accuracy in completed missions)

• Awarded THE GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL

• Awarded THE WORLD WAR II VICTORY MEDAL

• Graduated at the top of his Cadet Training Class

• Saved the lives of his crew by having them bail out before he crash-landed his badly burned and shot-up plane alone

Jeanette and Crawford reunited after WWII

Jeanette van Dorsten Stahl, R. Crawford Stahl

and Alida Margaret Stahl

Alida Margaret Stahl

Upon graduation from Union - Endicott High School

• National Honor Society
• Features Editor of The Tornado
• History Seminars
• Latin Club and Spanish Club
• Soloist in the choir
• Concertmistress of the orchestra
• 1st violin with The Binghamton Youth Symphony
• Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady"
• Angelina in "Trial by Jury"
•  Class Actress
• New York Regents Scholarship

Alida Stahl

Upon Graduation from Binghamton University

• Dean's List
• Soprano soloist with the college choir
• Recitalist of German lieder, French and Italian art song, opera
• Soprano soloist with The Binghamton Symphony
• Susanna in "The Marriage of Figaro"
• Vanessa in "Vanessa"
• Lucy in "The Telephone"
• Irma in "Irma La Douce"

Alida's husband

Dr. Leonard H. Augenlicht

Len at the launch of the space shuttle, Discovery, which was carrying an experiment from Len's laboratory.  Len is also a member of The Space Station Utilization Committee.

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Alida and Len off to a dinner honoring Len for being awarded 1st Prize in The Henry L. Moses Awards for Excellence in Basic Research.  Len has won 1st Prize four times and is the only person to have won it more than once. 

as Phyllis in "Iolanthe" backstage with her very own Lord

as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance" backstage with her very own bobby

as Violetta in "La Traviata" backstage with Len

as Elsie Maynard in "The Yeomen of the Guard" backstage with her very own Yeoman

one more time as Casilda in "The Gondoliers"

backstage with her very own gondolier, the drunken Annibale

and introducing their daughter . . .

Jenna Augen

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Jenna

Jenna with her adoring mother

Cooking as Coppelia and/or

Sleeping Beauty and/or

The Swan Queen

"I want to do a pretend." 

Jenna's mother as Mimi in "La Boheme" backstage with Jenna

The three of us at

The Westport Country Playhouse

Len with his adoring daughter 

Jenna with her adoring Daddy

Jenna with her adoring Grandpa, 

Crawford Stahl

Grandpa with his adoring Granddaughter 

"Les Girls": Jeanette van  Dorsten Stahl, Alida Augen and  Jenna Augen

Jenna after her annual ballet

recital (There were ten.)

Cast party at "Tavern on the Green" in NYC

I. to r.: Jenna, Alida, Crawford, Len , Jeanette

Cast party at "Amadeus"

I. to r.: Jeanette, Len, Alida, Jenna, Crawford

Jenna soloing in 3rd Grade

"The Martini Gavotte"

Alida and Jenna off to perform

"The Double Concerto" by Bach

(yet again)

Jenna in her mother's old Mabel

in "Pirates of Penzance" dress

Jenna as Velma Kelly in "Chicago"

('I STILL want to do a pretend.')

Jenna and Alida

Jenna in "Babes in Arms"

Jenna in "Babes in Arms"

Jenna as Miss Adelaide in 

"Guys and Dolls"

Jenna with some of her rewards

Jenna on her way to the theatre

to perform as Mabel in

"The Pirates of Penzance"

Jenna with her hero Grandpa, Crawford Stahl, on her way to sing "The Star Spangled Banner" at a large veterans' convention

Jenna in Lucerne, Switzerland

Jenna and Len in

our favorite city,

Venice, Italy

Jenna as The Concertmistress shaking hands with Maestro

Sal Princiotti

Jenna Augen as Miss Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" (11th grade)

another cast party

I. tor.: Len, Jenna, Jeanette, Crawford, Alida

home from the cast party:

Crawford, Jeanette, Jenna

The gentleman and scholar, Crawford Stahl

Jenna with her boys at Christmas

Jenna as The Chairman/Mayor in

"The Mystery of Edwin Drood" with Michael Barr, tenor

Jenna Augen sings cabaret

Live at The Duplex in Manhattan with pianist Sheldon Forrest

Jenna Augen and pianist Sheldon Forrest bowing after their cabaret show "I Know Things Now" at The Duplex in Manhattan

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© Alida Augen