Wilma Cozart Fine (’47), White Plains, N.Y. :: She studied music education and business at North Texas and moved to New York to run the classical division of Mercury Records in the 1950s and early 1960s. She oversaw production of the famed Mercury Living Presence series of records, which grew to more than 400 recordings, and produced CD reissues in the 1990s for Philips/Polygram. She was named vice president of classical music at Mercury in 1954 and retired in 1964 to raise her four sons. Donations in her memory may be made to UNT.
Submitted By meg0307 on Tue, 12/07/2010 - 10:47am
Wilma Cozart Fine (’47), White Plains, N.Y. :: She studied music education and business at North Texas and moved to New York to run the classical division of Mercury Records in the 1950s and early 1960s. She oversaw production of the famed Mercury Living Presence series of records, which grew to more than 400 recordings, and produced CD reissues in the 1990s for Philips/Polygram. She was named vice president of classical music at Mercury in 1954 and retired in 1964 to raise her four sons. Donations in her memory may be made to UNT.
