Marjorie Finlay (1928 - 2003)

Every night, via television, thousand of Puerto Ricans are charmed and entertained by a lovely young woman, a former St. Charlesan. She is Marjorie Mochlenkamp Finlay. Known professionally as Margie Finley, she is mistress of ceremony, sharing m.c. duties with Pumerejo, well known entertainment personality from Cuba, on a variety program, "El Show Pan Americano," for an hour each night on APA-TV in Santuce, P.R. The program has a more or less Jack Parr format... The professional world of entertainment was not new to Margie when she entered the television field. She did concert work in several South American countries, and before her marriage was guest soloist with a network show, "Music With the Girls," heard both on NBC and CBS for fifteen months. She has sung with the Puerto Rico Symphony and had leading roles in musical productions and light operas in South America...This spring she entered a new field when she vut her first LP record album in Mexico...Her most recent foray into a new entertainment medium was a two-week engagement at the LaConcah Room at the Caribe Hilton in Puerto Rico. Her parents had always discouraged her from doing supper club work, and she accepted the engagement only after assuring them that "this will be very dignified." Newspaper reviews from Puerto Rico indicate that her debut was met with enthusiasm as had never been seen in the LaConcha Room before. For Margie Finlay has become the darling of the island...Puerto Ricans describe her as having "the girl next door manner." Each night as she leaves the studio she is surrounded by fans of all ages... When she was a high school student, she became a pupil of Miss Pearl Walker, music professor at Lindenwood. She continued to study under Dr. Walker, for whom she has superlative praise, until she graduated from LC in 1949. She returned to the campus in 1953 to give a concert. After college came the radio show which she left to study at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, Mass. She did further study in New York. She married to Robert Finley, president of Raymond Construction Co...He took his bride to live in Havana, his home office at the time, but as Cuban political unrest grew the business was moved to PUerto Rico. From there the Finlays went to Venzuela, until the revolutionists dampened construction activities there...Now they are back in Puerto Rico, living in Santurce, a suburb of San Juan. The Finlays are the parents of two daughters, aged 3 and 4, who are now enjoying a visit with their grandparents in St. Charles, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Mohlenkamp, whil Margie and Bob spend a month's holidy in Europe...Reprinted from The St. Charles Banner-News.

[Verse 1] Never be so kind You forget to be clever Never be so clever You forget to be kind [Pre-Chorus] And if I didn't know better I'd think you were talking to me now If I didn't know better I'd think you were still around [Chorus] What died didn't stay dead What died didn't stay dead You're alive, you're alive in my head What died didn't stay dead What died didn't stay dead You're alive, so alive [Verse 2] Never be so politе You forget your power Nevеr wield such power You forget to be polite [Pre-Chorus] And if I didn't know better I'd think you were listening to me now If I didn't know better I'd think you were still around [Chorus] What died didn't stay dead What died didn't stay dead You're alive, you're alive in my head What died didn't stay dead What died didn't stay dead You're alive, so alive [Bridge] The autumn chill that wakes me up You loved the amber skies so much Long limbs and frozen swims You'd always go past where our feet could touch And I complained the whole way there The car ride back and up the stairs I should've asked you questions I should've asked you how to be Asked you to write it down for me Should've kept every grocery store receipt 'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me Watched as you signed your name: Marjorie All your closets of backlogged dreams And how you left them all to me [Chorus] What died didn't stay dead What died didn't stay dead You're alive, you're alive in my head What died didn't stay dead What died didn't stay dead You're alive, so alive [Outro] And if I didn't know better I'd think you were singing to me now If I didn't know better I'd think you were still around I know better But I still feel you all around I know better But you're still around

The following appeared in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat newspaper in St. Louis Missouri on Sunday February 24th 1952: Mr. and Mrs. Elmer H. Moehlenkamp of St. Charles have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Marjorie Moehlenkamp, to Robert Bruce Finlay. He is the son of Mrs. Lance G. Finley of Bronxville, N.Y., and the late Mr. Finlay. The Moehlenkamp family will leave early in March for Palm Beach Fla., where the wedding will take place Mar. 22. During their stay they will be at Casa Rosada. An alumna of Lindenwood College, where her sorority was Mu Phi Epsilon, the bride-to-be attended Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, Mass., last summer. She spent the early winter in New York. Her elder sister is Mrs. Donald M. Humphrey of Victorville, Cal. Mr. Finlay, who lived in St. Louis for two years, is now in Havana, Cuba, on an engineering project. He attended Princeton University and is a graduate of the University of Virginia. The bridegroom-elect, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, is a brother of Mrs. Duane Smith of Bronxville.