Topic: MILESTONES 2008
Virginia Peterson Katims, widow of Milton Katims, music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for 22 years, died Tuesday. She was 95. She died of pneumonia at a retirement home in North Seattle, according to her daughter, Pamela Katims Steele. With her husband, who died two years ago, Virginia Katims was a tireless advocate for the orchestra during Milton Katims' years as music director, from 1954 to 1976, helping transform a part-time, modestly professional orchestra into a major regional ensemble that became a symbol of pride for the city.

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