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New President Conservatory Trustees R. SAMUEL CARR, whom his fellow-trustees of the New England Conservatory of Music have unanimouslv chosen to the presidency, succeeding the late Mr. Eben D. Jordan, has for now about twenty years past been known to them as one of the ablest and most judicious of counselors. Coming upon the board during the critical period from which the school began to emerge soon after Mr. Chadwick assumed the directorship, Mr. Carr at once made an impression of business acumen and alert understanding of the needs and aims of the musical pro- fession. He was sympathetic with every effort to improve the financial position of the Conservatory; at the same time every undertaking that meant raising the standard of instruction met with his cordial support. So valuable has his service been that after the loss of last summer he was imme- diately thought of as the ideal successor of the far-sighted and philanthropic man who had just passed on. Born in one of the substantial old houses on Bunker Hill, Charlestown, in 1848, of good New England ancestry on both sides of the family, Mr. Carr re- ceived conventional education in the Bunker Hill Grammar School and, the parents having later moved out to a suburban home, in the Newton High School. Both the father and mother were musically inclined, and the boy quite markedly so, for at fifteen he was chosen organist of the West Newton Congregational Church. Thus began a weekly service as organist and musical director in several churches which, with only a few weeks ' intermission, was continuous for forty years. In 1884 Mr. Carr was elected to the position of organist and director of music at the historic Old South Church, in Copley Square, to the manifold duties of which he gave his best attention until 1904. He then resigned from active service. Mr. Carr is still chairman of the music committee at the Old South, and, by vote of the church, honorary musical director and organist. He has composed and arranged various hymns and anthems. He is an honorary member of the New England Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. Starting at the age of eighteen as a bank clerk, he early made a reputation for integrity, seriousness of purpose, insight and constructive imagination. In 1883 he became the private secretary of Frederick L. Ames, with whom he was closely associated down to the latter ' s death in 1893. Upon the passing of Governor Oliver Ames, in 1895, Mr. Carr became one of the executors and trustees of the estate. He is a director in several corporations. He has been concerned in important railroad reorganizations. His personal predilection for music has kept him constantly in touch with developments in a profession which, had he so chosen, he might presumably have followed with conspicuous success. He has followed music, however, not merely in the spirit of getting personal enjoyment from it, but in that of doing his part to give pleasure to others, for, as he says, as one grows older, one realizes more and more that the lasting satisfactions of life come from service to others. Page four
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