Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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PROF. E. EDWIN SHELDON, together with his wife, Ida Maneval Sheldon, has made the Conservatory of Music of Lebanon Valley College what it is today. Thru his work and influence, the course for graduation with diploma has been raised from two years of required theoretical subjects to four years, thus giving the Conservatory students a standing with the college students in all class affairs. He has also secured a faculty action granting to college students the opportunity of taking Harmony, Counter- point, and History of Music as college electives. In addition to this, he has founded the Men ' s Glee Club and the Orchestra and has made them perma- nent organizations. Prof. Sheldon was born in northern Ohio, near Cleveland, on the country estate of his grandparents. After he had passed the gr.idc schools at Welling- ton, Ohio, the family moved to McComb, Ohio, where he graduated from High School. Thruout this public school period he studied piano with local teachers, and while yet a High School student organized his first class for piano instruction. One year of teaching in the public schools, while at the same time he taught a class of piano pupils in the evenings, helped him tn decide upon music teaching as a profession. The next two years were spent in the study of piano and literary subjects at Alma College, Alma, Mich., and Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio. Four years were then given to study in Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Prof. Sheldon then entered the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, and was graduated with the Class of 1900, having taken his major work in piano with Dr. J. Albert Jeiifer v, and Counterpoint and Composition with Dr. George W. Chadwick. The following year he remained m Boston, doing post-graduate work. During this time he also served as organist and choir- director in an Episcopal church in South Boston. In 1902 a place w-as given him (in the faculty of the Toledo Conserva- tory. After one year he resigned and accepted the position of Musical Direc- tor of the C ' onseix ' atory of Music at Susquehanna University. There he re- mained se cn }-ears, and then came to Lebanon ' ' alle - in a similar capacity. Since that time he has continued to be our own Musical Director. The summer of 1 ' ' 07 Prof. Sheldon spent in New York city in study with pri ate teachers: during that of 1918 he attended Cornell University ' s six- «eek term; and the ]iast summer, that of 1919, found him taking similar work in New York Uni ersity. Prof. Sheldon ' s exemplary character has exerted a profound influence on all those who have come in touch with him. The Glee Club men especially owe much to him. The fruits of his work as a teacher of music are known ;ind praised both near and far. His life is proving to be of more than usual value in the ] rogress of man. Paiir Fniir

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