![]() ![]() Finch was the sole songwriter during this period for several of L7's songs including "(Right On) Thru", " Everglade", "One More Thing", and "Shirley". Finch contributed to the albums L7 (1988) Smell the Magic(1990), Bricks Are Heavy (1992), and Hungry for Stink (1994). She remained with L7 throughout the band's most successful period in the early 1990s. In the documentary film L7: Pretend We’re Dead, bandmate Donita Sparks described Finch as "persistent" and stated that after Finch joined the band, her networking skills and stage energy continued to significantly boost the momentum building within the group. In 1986, Finch joined the Los Angeles-based punk rock group L7. Finch subsequently played in the short-lived Hollywood band The Pandoras, formed by bassist Gwynne Kahn. This line-up produced a demo recording which remains unreleased. The band featured Courtney Love, future founder of Hole, and future Babes in Toyland founder Kat Bjelland. She played bass in the San Francisco-based band Sugar Babydoll (or Sugar Babylon) from 1984 - 1986. Career Music įinch began her musical career in the mid 1980s. Finch took an interest in photography at an early age and attended a summer art session at Otis Parsons in 1980. Finch credits the support of her adoptive father, who was also an amateur photographer, as being instrumental to her creative development. She was adopted in 1967 by Robert Edward Finch, an aeronautics engineer, and his wife Sandra Jacobson they later divorced in 1974. She died in 1998.Finch was born Augand grew up in West Los Angeles. Jean retired at age 64 and returned to Canada, where she settled in Toronto and continued work for the church in various volunteer capacities. ![]() Her last term on the Island was spent as Pastor of Tableland Pastoral Charge. Augustine, Biche, Princes Town, Rio Claro and San Fernando. For the next 12 years, she worked primarily with women’s groups of the Presbyterian Church in Trinidad and Grenada in places such as St. After a short furlough, Jean served on year in Montreal as a Port Worker, four years in Hamilton All People’s Mission Japanese Church and on year in community work at Gypsumville, Manitoba.Īfter her furlough in 1958-1959, Jean was appointed to Trinidad (aged 51). Missionaries were forced to leave the country in 1951 (aged 43). ![]() It was during her third term of service in China that all the remaining U.C.C. On her furloughs back in Canada, she studied 2nd year theology at Emmanuel College and five years later received her M.A. After language study, she did both educational and evangelistic work for three five-year terms in four different cities (Chungking, Foochow, Tzeliutsing, Peh Deh). She was appointed by the Women’s Missionary Society to West China in 1933 (aged 25), commissioned by the Saskatchewan Conference. Her interest in missionary work led her to attend the United Church training school, 1932-1933. After some teaching and library work, she obtained her B.A. Her family later moved to Regina, Saskatchewan, where she completed Normal School, 1927 (aged 19). Jean Stewart (1908-1998) was born in Sackville, N.B. ![]()
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