DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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Adolph H. Schellschmidt, who has charge of the Departinent of Stringed Instruments, is the son of the well-known violinist of that name in Indianapolis. His study of the violin was begun with his father, at the age of S years. His 1Jl.'0p2l1'illl011 for professional work was continued later in Cincinnati. Several years were spent in Crermauy, where he was graduated from the Conserv- atory at Cologne, after a thorough course. Professor Schellschmidt is widely known as a Cello soloist of high rank. Miss Mildred Rutledge, educated in Normal School and DePauw University. Was graduated from DePauw Music nslru ctors ln uslc School, 1899. Studied with Professor Emil Liebling and in the Pai-souls and Carutherls Schools of Music in Chi- cago. At present a teacher of Pianoforte, Normal and Kindergarten Methods in Music School, DePauw Uni- versity. I Julia A. Druley, Professor of Pianoforte, pupil of Franz Apel C Detroit Conservatory of Music, Detroit, Mich., for a number of years, of Mme. Rive, Cincin- nati, of Cecelia Gaul, in the College of Music, Cincinnati, of lVilliam H. Sherwood, Chicago, of Perles V. Tervis, New York, of Mme. Bloomfield-Zeisler, Chicago, of the Leschetizky School, Vienna, Austria. Page Z7

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SCl'100l of Music The School of Music is in the twenty-fifth year of its history. From the beginning of its existence it always has had a thorough course of high-g1'ade study, which has been kept fully in line with the best schools of the country and lnade to fulfill the growing needs of its own locality. Its work is both professional and special, and the records of its quarter of a century show it entitled to important claims in either of these directions. Mo1'e than 2,000 students have already been enrolled in its classes and pursued its courses either to their completion or for shorter periods of time. ' Its alumnal roll includes a la1'gc number of successful teachers, singers and players. About three hundred of the DePauw University stu- dents are in the School of Music this year. The work is being pursued along the many lines of curriculum with genuine enthusiasm and success. The Senior class has eight members, seven will be grad- uated from the piano2forte department and one from voice. Also a class of ten or twelve will complete the course in Public School lVork. The school has always stood for broad and thorough scholarship and trainingg the faculty is made up of such men and women who not only do first-class teaching, but also inspire high and healthful ideals in the young men and women who come under their influence. Dean Belle Aurclia Mansfield, A.M., Ii.Ii.B., took her undergraduate college work at the Iowa Wesleyain Uni- versity. Upon her graduation she entered upon an exten- sive course of law study, and was admitted to practice in the courts-the first woman in the United States to whom this privilege was granted. She then went to Europe to continue her studies of law and aesthetics in London and Paris. Upon her return to this country she entered the profession of teaching. She was elected Dean of the De- Pauw School of Art in 1893, and of the School of Music in 1894. Page 26

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Mary Janet Wlilson, Assistant in Harmony Depart- ment, graduate of IVestern College, Oxford, Ohio, and DePauw University of Liberal Arts. Has taken special course in Harmony and Counterpoint in School of Music. Isaac B. Norris, Ph.l3., Professor of Piano, Pipe Organ and Theory, DePauw University School of Music. From 1905 to 1908 spent in Music study in Vienna, Austria, Piano with Professor Theodore Leschetizky, and Theory with Professor Robert Fuchs and Professor Hermafnn Graedcner of the Vienna Conservatory. Aldah Victoria McCoy, Teacher of Pianoforte, was graduated in 1905 from DePauw in the Department of Music, and since that time has taught in the school. Studied with Emil Liebling of Chicago, summer of 1908. Professor Elizabeth Patterson Sawyers, B. Mus., A.C.M.-Pianoforte, Pipe Organ, and Theory Cnow ab- sent on leavel, is a graduate of the Iowa Conservatory of y Page 28 nstructors zn uszc .2 Music, and of the New England Conservatory of Music, has been to Europe twice for study, the first time with Dreyshoclc in Berlin, and the second with Lesclietizky in Vienna. Has bee11 teaching and eoneertizing for more than ten years. Professor Francis Elizabeth Oldfield, Head of Voice Department, was a pupil of the Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio, six years. Later she went to New York City, where she studied four years with James Saurage. She studied one summer under George Ilenschel in Ildn- don, and one year in Paris under Monsieurs Newflower and Jean de Reszki. At one time she was teacher in Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Cornell College, Iowa. .Mae Amelia Seaman, graduate of DePauw Univer- s1ty,- Ph.B. Graduate Department of Public School Music, New England Conservatory. Supervision of Music in public schools, Greencastle, and Instructor Music School, DePauw,