[78-L] Lombardo Archive needs a home

[Michael Biel]

There is an article in USA Today with a link to another with more 
pictures about the Guy Lombardo archive held by Lebert's family. They 
are looking for a home for it.  Here's the links and an excerpt

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1801403?preferredArticleViewMode=single

   http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012312300042

The items displayed in their homes include photographs, record albums, 
sheet music, awards, and even the band's framed first paycheck from 
1918, for $35.70.

Even more items have been sitting in storage for about 40 years, first 
placed there by Lebert, Gina said. They include at least 100 manila 
envelopes stuffed with original band orchestrations hand-written by 
Carmen; at least 40 boxes of reels of 35-millimeter tapes, plus many 
loose, large reels of 16mm tapes of the band's 1950s TV show.

The siblings offered it to the Berklee College of Music in Boston and 
two other colleges, but was told there wasn't room, she said. So Gina, 
her son, James, and Liz make a pilgrimage to the storage units on 
Sundays, putting the deteriorating tapes, smelling of vinegar, in 
archival envelopes and reboxing them. They don't know what to do with 
the orchestrations, many of them yellowing.