Secrist, John, 1918-1958

Record collector and mathematician John Bert Secrist, Jr., was born in Kansas City, Kansas, on August 14, 1918, and joined the staff of IBM in New York in 1953. In New York, Secrist founded the Vocal Record Collectors' Society and compiled detailed discographies of Rosa Ponselle (1950) and Enrico Caruso (1951). As a prominent collector of classical vocal recordings, Secrist maintained high and exacting standards. He died in 1958 at the age of forty.

From the description of Papers from the John Secrist Jr. collection, 1919-1973 (bulk 1949-1958). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 320523996

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