They were famous for the brief time they appeared on the show and now have to base their entire careers on their status as a "former Welk star" as they appear on cruise ships, small nightclubs, etc. If you watch the PBS rebroadcasts and reunion shows, it's a little sad to see these performers today. He later went to prison for molesting one of his young male piano students, but he's out of prison now and apparently nobody on the show holds it against him, as he frequently appears on Welk reunion specials. I don't know if there were any other gays on the show, but piano player Bob Ralston was married to the harshest looking Dutch lady you ever saw. Kathie Lee outed him in her autobiography when she wrote about her first husband, who was gay and "lived with a gay performer on the Lawrence Welk Show." He was also the only performer on the show that I ever saw go up on his lyrics (ironically, it was "Young at Heart" which begins, "Fairy tales can come true." and then he froze and went, "buh-buh-buh-buh." He forgot more lyrics later in the song. Last week, in New York, I was with Lawrence Welk’s daughter, who is in her 70s, and I met her daughter, the third generation, and I said, ‘What do you do about a junior board?’ And she said, ‘Oh, we have one.’ And I said, ‘Oh, how old do you have to be?’ She said, ‘I did it well because, for me, for my family, you got on the junior board at age 12.’ So, there’s no right or wrong way to do this, but I think that’s a good example.Tom Netherton used to sweat so much on the show that I'm surprised he didn't get electrocuted by the microphone. “They do their own learning and giving, and in some cases it’s 18 to 21, and then they can get on the board after 21 or after 25. “Many families and foundations do have junior boards as a way to prepare them for when they get out of college,” said Collier at the conference, which was sponsored by the New York State Society of CPAs Foundation for Accounting Education and took place at the offices of Bernstein Global Wealth Management. To help educate the Welk family on how to disburse the longtime TV host’s earnings, the foundation has a junior board consisting of younger members of the family who are not old enough to hold seats on the official board. Apparently, one of their beneficiaries is Harvard. The bandleader who was known as the maestro of champagne music passed away in 1992, but his descendants have been overseeing his foundation in the years since. Collier, a senior philanthropic advisor at Harvard University, told a conference on family offices on Thursday that he recently met with Welk’s daughter and granddaughter to talk about how they set up the board for their family foundation. Managing a family office or philanthropic foundation can be difficult, so it helps to get training at an early age, and among the descendants of the late bandleader Lawrence Welk, that education starts before they can even legally buy champagne.Ĭharles W.
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