The University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved presidential personnel recommendations and affirmed a graduation commitment to returning and transfer students at its meeting Friday.
The University of Nebraska Board of Regents will consider making the athletics director a vice chancellor and reaffirm a commitment to returning and transfer students at its meeting Friday. Students
By Irish America Staff
Donald O’Connor, best known for the physical and musical acumen that made him a star in the 1950s, and the mastermind behind Singin’ in the Rain’s famous “Make ‘Em Laugh” number, died on September 27, 2003. He was 78.
O’Connor had barely left the womb before embarking on his long show-business career. The son of an acrobat, Effie Irene Crane, and a circus strongman, Chuck O’Connor, one of the O’Connors of Bansha, Co. Tipperary Donald was raised on the stage. After his father’s death, his mother incorporated her children into her vaudeville acts. In 1938, he made his Hollywood film debut as Bing Crosby’s younger bother in Sing You Sinners after being scouted out at a benefit in the Biltmore Hotel in LA.