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Cornell University Glee Club records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 37-6-2399

Scope and content

Collection includes bound managerial papers, correspondence, and financial papers for every year from 1929 to 1976 (excluding war years), scrapbooks, photographs, programs, notebooks, recordings, songbooks, and miscellany concerning the Cornell University Glee Club (CUGC), its managers, directors, members, and alumni. Also included are materials relating to the Cornell Glee, Banjo, and Mandolin Clubs (predecessor to the Glee Club), the Cornell Musical Clubs Council (CMCC) (the Glee Club's governing body for many years), the Hangovers (a cappella subset), and the Department of Music. Also included are some papers of the Cornell Chorus, or Cornell Women's Glee Club (CWGC).

Scope and content

Also, scrapbooks (1954-55); USSR/England tour (1960-61); publicity and managerial records (1951-65); and an LP album, "Cornell music," consisting of music of the Glee Club, the Cornell chimes, and the Cornell Concert Band. Also microfilmed minutes and a poster for a Glee Club concert in the Philippines.

Dates

  • 1884 - 2014

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

Organizational history

CHRONOLOGY

1889-1921
Hollis Ellsworth Dann
1921-1942
Eric Sydney Dudley
1942-1945
John Marinus Kuypers
1945-1946
Paul John Weaver
1946-1957
Thomas Brodhead Tracy
1957-1995
Thomas Andrew Sokol
1995-2012
Scott Arthur Tucker
2012-2013
John Rowehl (Interim director)
2013-Present
Robert Isaacs

Extent

16 cubic feet. (16 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Correspondence, programs, scrapbooks, photographs, notebooks, recordings, and miscellany concerning the Cornell University Glee Club, including the complete managerial papers from 1929 to 1980.

SERIES LIST

<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s7a">Subseries A. Printed Material</ref>
Boxes 17, 18, 21, 23
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s7b">Subseries B. Posters and Fliers</ref>
Boxes 30, 32
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s7c">Subseries C. Sheet Music</ref>
Boxes 30
<ref actuate="onrequest" show="replace" target="s7d">Subseries D. Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club Programs</ref>
Boxes 19-21

RELATED MATERIALS

See also: Box 26 of Cornell University Media Services Photo Section records, #21-37-2227, for photos of the Glee Club Asia tour in January 1989. Job # 1434, 16 rolls, each with many frames, taken by Gordon Webb.

See also collection #3-13-2843 for a VHS tape of the 1989 Asia Tour.

See also Cornell University Songs and Sheet Music collection, #47-6-2124, http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/EADresolver?id=RMA02124.

See also Leslie Fenner memorabilia, #37-5-4158.

See also collection, Music performed by students, #37-6-2611 for 1949 recordings. See also the Music Library for many recordings.

Physical Description

Correspondence, programs, scrapbooks, photographs, notebooks, recordings, miscellany.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Corey Ryan Earle
Date completed:
August 2005
EAD encoding:
Corey Ryan Earle, August 2005
Date modified:
Marcie Farwell, July 2018

PARTIAL LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS

Directors

  1. Hollis E. Dann
  2. Eric S. Dudley
  3. John M. Kuypers
  4. Thomas A. Sokol
  5. Thomas B. Tracy
  6. Paul J. Weaver

Graduate Managers

  1. Romeyn Berry
  2. R. Selden Brewer
  3. J. Duncan Sells
  4. Allan H. Treman

Advisory Council Members

  1. Robert A. Beck
  2. Foster M. Coffin
  3. George L. Coleman
  4. Robert G. Engel
  5. H. Victor Grohmann
  6. Howard A. Heinsius
  7. Richard C. Howard
  8. Austin H. Kiplinger
  9. Richard H. Lee
  10. Stanley A. Malinowski, Jr.
  11. Deane W. Malott
  12. Paul L. McKeegan
  13. John C. Nicolls
  14. John S. Ostrom
  15. William H. Seymour
  16. W. Barlow Ware
  17. Bruce W. Widger
  18. G. Wallace Woodworth
  19. Theodore P. Wright
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Corey Ryan Earle
Date
Aug. 2005
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
ENG

Revision Statements

  • 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
  • 2007-05-29: converted from EAD 1.0 to EAD 2002

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)