Bucknell University - L Agenda Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

Page 24 text:

Etta Althea Brown, Instructor in Voice and Sight Singing. Miss Brown has had excellent results in teaching voice and theory during the past five years, and has gained a favorable reputation as an opera coach as the result of five presentations given by the music students. Miss Brown received her musical education un- der the direction of Oscar Saenger and is also a graduate of this institution. Anna M. Pines, Instructor in Teachers ' Supervisors ' Course in Music. A graduate of Buckncll Music College in 1!MI2, Miss Pines this year assumed charge of the course in Public School Music Super- visory. Training under the best authorities in the country in this work and years of successful teaching, makes Miss Pines well fitted for her important position in the nnisic faculty. DaN ' ID Mover Berlino, Instructor in Piano and Advanced Har- mony. Mr. Berlino. wlio is serving his first year teaching piano and ad- vanced harmony, conies to Bucknell well known as a concert artist both abroad and in this country. Mr. Berlino was spending his ninth year under such well known European teacher-composers as Jonas and Dodnanyi when the war caused the exodus of American students from foreign music centers. Having adapted himself readily to the teaching profession, Mr. Berlino is an instant suc- cess in his work here. Jessie Louise Cooper, Instructor in Piano. Mis.s Cooper is one nf the most talented musicians Bucknell has ever produced, and wliile a student here won the Avirognet prize for e.xcellence in piano playing. As a result of her fine work in recitals during her serior year. Miss Cooper has been added to the faculty and is winninsi new success every dav. 18 • . i ♦

Page 23 text:

EuDORA R. Hamler, A.B., Teacher of Elocution in Women ' s College. Miss Hamler has a pleasant smile that accompanies her everywhere and is as popular as the high quality of her work in Elocution at the Seminary and in puhlic readings. It is reported that she is soon to relinquish her maiden name and we hope her unending happiness. Paul George Stolz, A.M., Direclor in Science of Music and Voice. Here is the man who has made the music college the success that it i-i. . graduate of the University and Music Department, Prof. Stolz finished his studies under Schussler in New York and Loehn- lin in Berlin. He has acquired quite a reputation as a concert singer and is credited with making a winning success of all that he un- dertakes. Madame Guiseppina De Sylva Schoen, Inslruclor in Voice and Stage Deportment at Women ' s College. Mme. De Sylva has heen teaching voice for three years at Buck- nell and is a decided success in the work, having spent 18 years in Grand Opera work. She has sung in most of the large cities of the world. Madame received her musical education under such masters as Macovaldi of the Milano Conservatory, and Broggio of the Bologna Conservatory, and still dues much concert work in connection with her teaching. Charlotte Guionu Armstrong, Instructor in Viol ' .n and His- tory of Music. Miss Armstrong lias l)een teaching violin in the Music Department for seven years. After graduating from New England Conserva- tory she studied several years under Ovide Musin, the eminent Belgian violin virtuoso. She has nuich ability and spent two sea- sons concertizing in cities throughout the cnuntry. 17

Page 25 text:

Alvin Jacob Adams, Instructor in Pipe Organ and Harntony. Mr. Adams graduated from the BuckncU School of Music aud is teaching pipe organ for his third year. Mr. Adams has spent a great deal of time studying the organ under the most noted players aud makes a very capalile teacher for the Music Department. Walter S. Wilcox, Sc.M., Registrar of the University. Prof. Wilcox, who has an envious record as a former . ll-.- nierican center at Buckneil, has a jolly but business-like manner of handling Bucknell Imsiness that keeps the world aware there is an institu- tion at Bucknell, and a live one. He has attended the University of Chicago and Harvard as well as being principal of several high schools and of Bucknell Academy. PRESIDENT S HOME