Florida State University Summer Music Camp records, 1943-2008 (inclusive) (bulk 1943-1985)

Campbell, Doak S. (Doak Sheridan), 1888-1973

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President, Florida State University. Doak Sheridan Campbell, third president of the Florida State College for Women (1941-1957), was born near Waldron, Arkansas, on November 16, 1888. He attended public school in Arkansas, after which he obtained his teaching license. He taught for one year, then went to Ouachita College at Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he graduated with a teaching degree in 1911, emphasizing music and speech. He then became superintendent of school at Co...

Kuersteiner, Karl O.

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Florida State university

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The Florida State College for Women (FSCW) Artist Series began in 1923. Dean Ella Opperman was the first person in charge of organizing the series. The series was intended to bring renowned artists to FSCW. After FSCW became Florida State University (FSU), the FSU School of Music managed the series. However, in 1974 the FSU Artist Series Committee assumed control. Because of financial difficulties in the early 1990s, the Artist Series was briefly discontinued. The series was then entitled the "C...

Opperman, Ella Scoble

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Dean, Florida State College for Women. Ella Scoble Opperman was born October 27, 1873, in New Haven, Ohio, and died in Tallahassee, Florida, on March 11, 1969. She became director of the Florida State College for Women, School of Music in 1911, and its first dean in 1920, until her retirement in 1944. The college became Florida State University three years later. After her retirement she wrote "Annals of the school of music." Opperman Music Hall on the Florida State Univ...

Beard, Ramona C. (Ramona Cruikshank), 1903-

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Kraushaar, Otto J. (Otto Jacob)

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Braunagel, Robert T., 1920-

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Housewright, Wiley L., 1913-2003

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Florida State College for Women

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According to Robin Sellers' Femina Perfecta, in 1914 members of the even-year classes of Florida State College for Women (juniors and freshmen) wore their green and yellow class colors to chapel on the Saturday morning before Thanksgiving. A spontaneous pep rally ensued. On the following Wednesday, odd-year class members (seniors, sophomores, and sub-freshmen) carried canes wrapped with ribbons in their individual class colors of red, white, and purple. On Thanksgiving Day the odd-year classes d...

Noah, Max Stephen

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Sellers, Owen F. (Owen Frink), 1906-1983

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Grimm, Betty Jane, 1919-1994

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Gustat, Peter J., 1879-1952

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Florida State University Summer Music Camp

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Summer Music Camp was begun in 1942 by Dean Ella Scoble Opperman who chose Peter J. Gustat and Otto J. Kraushaar to organize it. Summer Music Camp existed under both Florida State College for Women and Florida State University. Originally it was a bandmasters' camp, and in 1945 a choral division was added under the direction of Max Noah of Georgia State College for Women. In later years an orchestra division was added to the Summer Music Camp. By 1953 or possibly earlier, the F.S.U. Summer Music...