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...music that made Fisk University what it is, a leading U.S. Negro institution. Last week Fisk let music ring, and swell the breeze, in celebration of its 75th anniversary...
...Fisk's beginning, soon after the Civil War, was in a Federal hospital barracks in Nashville, Tenn. Thither, at the invitation of General Clinton Fisk, trooped Negroes of all ages, to get their schooling. They didn't get much until the school's treasurer, George White (white), formed a chorus, named it the Jubilee Singers, took them on a barnstorming tour of the North. Mr. White sent back $40,000 to buy a campus. The Singers went abroad, sang before Queen Victoria, who requested Steal Away to Jesus. That tour netted $200,000, which bought Jubilee Hall...
...Jubilee Singers, now 100% male, have never sung hotcha, keep their spirituals pure and dignified. But last week in Fisk Memorial Chapel, to the dismay of diehards, Negroes stomped, slapped their thighs, plunk-a-plunked banjos and guitars, sang blues and "sinful songs." Fisk's music director, white, German-descended, Harvard-trained Harold Schmidt, 31, had resolved that "Fisk's celebration should sound of whatever is Negro. The five-day program included such commercially successful performers as guitar-playing Joshua White, work-song singer, and the gospel-swinging Golden Gate Quartet. To show what his university choir could...
...charge of the Friends' camps, as their director of Civilian Public Service, is grey-haired, robust Quaker Thomas Elsa Jones, who in December took a year's leave from his presidency of Fisk University. Besides Patapsco, he will supervise the Friends' camp for C. O.s already operating at Cooperstown, N. Y., others soon to open in California, Indiana, Ohio. Mennonites will also establish their camps at Colorado Springs, Grottoes, Va. and Bluffton, Ind., and the Church of the Brethren will start camps at Onekama, Wis. and Lagro, Ind. The three sects plan to open joint camps later...
Died. Dode Fisk, 81, retired boss of a 25-car circus known as "Fisk's Great Combined Shows"; in Columbus, Ohio. Circus Man Fisk's funeral came off precisely as he had requested. Summoned from an old folks' home, Parson William S. ("Doc") Waddell, an ex-circus man, stood next to Dode's favorite sunflower (see cut), praised the dead, and exhorted the company to heed Dode's sign, laugh and talk. The three-piece orchestra blared Mc-Cloud's Reel, Happy Days are Here Again and, with audience joining...