Oklahoma City University - Keshena Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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3 City ft CYS and 1 frame lios, itecl and :s in tllc ter lnemg playing, nt recital :cl States. l arrange- Eiglltlm ol publislmecl 5 plaving l College ew Yorlt. l utclmeson. h T0lJlCtS don l1C Belgillmf on onli! is f0fl3l filfbooll Ol L '4-1127-N. I . ,. t W DEAN CLARENCE BURG -61

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Qedzcatzom I e 'Q it Mi+.W.a...H.... -,N . A 13 .zzrz ' ' :. - Kr: K a' TTT!-IC-1-'e -- 5 J-'rl 'EA . L'fa1 J' r -' ' A ' l W P l 1 u i g 0 rf l l DEAN CLARENCE BURG, head of the College of Fine Arts at Qklahoma City l University, is nationally known as a pianist, organist, composer, arranger, con I i ductor and teacher. l I-le came to the University in 1928 when there were only five teachers and l a hundred students in the College of Fine Arts, which was located in a frame 5 house across from the present site of the Fine Arts Building l l Ar that time there were only four studios Now there are 33 studios, 3 1 teachers and 610 Fine Arts students. ' The credit for making O. C. U.'s Fine Arts Department fullv accredited and il nationally recognized is given to Dean Burg. l Besides full days of teaching music, Dean Burg gives twenty concerts in the l . 15 Southwest each year. Ac the age of eight, Dean Burg started his music career, his mother being f his first teacher. During his student days, he won many awards for his playing , . gf and before he was launched on his music profession, gave eleven different recital l programs from memory. I-Ie has since been heard throughout the United States The Art Publication Society of St. Louis has published Dean Burg s arrange lip ments of three typically American dances, ml-urkey in the Straw, Eighth of Ianuaryi' and Pig Town Fling. Several of his compositions have been published K 1 1 ll- has been recorded on the Ampico. Dean Burg holds the B.M. and M.M. degree from Chicago Musical College 1. and Mus.Ed. degree from Eastman School of Music and has studied in New York .1 Chicago and Baltimore with a number of noted teachers, including Hutcheson W Stojowski, Shelley, Ganz, Raab, 'Eddy and many others During the summers of 1934 and 1935, Dean Burv coached with Tobias i , lvlatthay School of Pianoforte, London. In addition to his study in London he traveled extensively through Europe including visits to France I-lolland, Belgium, , Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy. To you, Dean Clarence Burg, for your never dying faith in Oklahoma City University, and for your important part in making it the school it IS today we, the members of the Iunior and Senior classes, dedicate this yearbook of ' l Anno Domini nineteen hundred and forty-six g , ik V I 1 T,vj-.pf,,,,s-G-..:,vgr.,4,fVIVMJ:--,2'. - 4-,:,ti?5?l?.,5Ir'? .QQ-z'1 w'lg3eii:gE, -V.. - I Lg- ig., , g A . ,L-Ll. .K , -K I ri . 1 . . -E 'Y - fm -'f f +11 by G. Schirmir, Inc., and the Composers Miisic Corporation, and his playing

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES BISHOP W. ANGIE SMITH . President of University .I,. DR. C. SMITH. ......i.....i.... OlilHllO11121 City President of the Board .... BISHOP W. ANGIE SMITH .---Oklahoma City Vice-President ..............,.. .GEORGE FREDERICKSON .......... Oklahoma City Secretary ........... ....... IVI . M. GIBBENS. ................... Oklahoma City Treasurer ......,... ....... V . V. HARRIS. ....... ........ . Oklahoma City 'ki MEMBERS OF THE BOARD S4 R. Abernathy, Oklahoma Cityg Virgil Alexander, Ada, I. W. Armstrong, Wewoka, Newton Avey, Oklahoma City, S. I-I. Babcock, Elk City, Ioe E. Bowers, McAlesterg W. I.. Blackburn, Vinitag T. E. Branilf, Oklahoma City, Virgil Browne, Oklahoma City, I-I. B. Bruner, Oklahoma City, I.. C. Clark, Tulsa, Mrs. Ella D. Classen, Oklahoma City, C. I.. Crippin, El Reno, C. Curry, Durant, Wm. C. Doenges, Bartlesvilleg Earl N. Dorff, Tulsa, Iames Egan, Muskogee, E. I-Iall, I-Ioldenvilleg Victor I-Iarlow Ir., Okla- homa Cityg C. E. I-Ieicibrink, Oklahoma Cityg Dan W. I-Iogan, Oklahoma City, I-I. I-Iolmes, Oklahoma City, Miss Edith C. Iohnson, Oklahoma Cityg Henry Iohnson, Oklahoma City, Ered Iones, Oklahoma City, E. I.. Iorns, Clinton, Don I-I. I.aGrone, Durant, C. S. McCreight, Okla- homa Cityg R. E. I.. Morgan, Oklahoma Cityg Moss Patter- son, Oklahoma City, Fred Porter, Oklahoma City? Ffallk A. Sewell, Oklahoma City, Mrs. EfHe Wootten Siddons, Chickashag Guy C. Teterick, Miami, Wm. M. Vickery, Blackwell, Bascomb Watts, Tulsa. -5.