Cincinnati Conservatory of Music - Pans Pipers Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Page 124

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EDGAR STILLMAN- KELLEY QUARTETTE LTHOUGH the Edgar Stillman-Kelley Quartette is one of very recent forma- tion, it is gaining the recognition and favor of both artists and music lovers in Cincin- nati and in the neighboring cities and States. This group of musicians is composed of four talented young men upon Whom Pan, our god of music, has lavished his kindest smiles. Mr. Truman Boardman and Mr. Paull Ferguson are the violinists, and Mr. Homer Fair and Mr. OWen Sellers are the violist and cellist, respec- tively. They are all students in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and with such a back- ground for education and training, we have no doubt of their coming success. The Edgar Stillman-Kelley Club is fortunate in having a string quartette of this type from its own membership. At a recent recep- tion given by the club in Miss Bauris home in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Edgar Stillman-Kelley, the quartette played a number of ensemble compositions, and received most favorable criti- cism from Dr. Kelley, Americais greatest living composer. Other engagements have included perform- ances at Emery Auditorium, at music clubs in Indiana and Ohio, and radio entertainments. The quartette has the best wishes of the editor- ial staff of the Conservatory Annual, and its sincere hope that the young musicians of this ensemble body will prove to be Panis best pipers. Page 19.!

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THE ALUMNAL ASSOC IATION HE year 1925 will mark the eighteenth I birthday of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Alumnal Association. During a comparatively brief existence it has endeavor- ed in all its undertakings to remain faithful to the ideals of the Conservatorfs beloved Founder. The records state that on June 20, 1907 there was organized a Conservatory Alumnal Association. During its early years this organ- ization was concerned chiefly with annual re- unions and occasional informal gatherings. At one of these the reproduction of some of the splendid works of St. Gaudens created the de- sire for an Alumnal emblem which should be the work of an American artist. Mr. William P. McDonald, of Rookwood Pottery, submitted the design for the beautiful Alumnal pin, which those who are privileged to wear it cherish and which has been adapted for use as the official Alumnal seal. In another season, eiforts were made to add to the beauty of the Conservatory grounds by placing on them selected hardy perennials. During its sixth year the Association made plans for erecting 0n the Conservatory campus the fountain inscribed to the memory of Miss Clara Baur, and in the following June t1914t this memorial designed by Mr. Clement Barn- horn-another Cincinnati artistewas formally presented to the Conservatory. It is interesting to know that a duplicate of this fountain was exhibited at the Panama Exposition in San Francisco, 1916. There was established in 1920 the Clara Baur Memorial Scholarship Fund, the first