{"id":16485,"date":"2026-03-27T18:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/?p=16485"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:05:19","slug":"mar27-apr2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/2026\/03\/mar27-apr2\/","title":{"rendered":"March 27th- April 2nd:The \u201cQ\u201d Club makes its dramatic debut in Kilbourn Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1728481142276{background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;]<em>Published on Mar 27th, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/esm4.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/this-week-at-eastman\/\">Back to This Week at Eastman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1677692401977{margin-top: 20px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1669830733727{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;1939: The \u201cQ\u201d Club makes its dramatic debut in Kilbourn Hall&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679689936839{margin-top: 40px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;border-left-color: #dddddd !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #dddddd !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-top-color: #dddddd !important;border-top-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;border-radius: 1px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679915457166{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1669830733727{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679915416107{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-four years ago this week, on the evening of Saturday, April 1st, 1939, a select group of Eastman students became Thespians when their newly founded club staged Samson Raphaelson\u2019s play <em>Accent on Youth <\/em>in Kilbourn\u00a0 Hall. \u00a0The production was the work of the \u201cQ\u201d Club, which had been founded at Eastman as an opportunity to stage contemporary plays and to learn about the theater.\u00a0 The club was initially organized by freshman Robert Dike (BM \u201842), who served as the club\u2019s president in its first year.\u00a0 In selecting the play <em>Accent on Youth, <\/em>the \u201cQ\u201d Club had reached directly into the day\u2019s current repertory; the play had premiered long before in 1934, going from its Broadway success to success in London\u2019s West End, where no less an actress than leading lady Greer Garson had played the lead.\u00a0 <em>Accent on Youth <\/em>had immediately been made into a motion picture in 1935.\u00a0 The play\u2019s author, Samson Raphaelson (1894-1983), was enjoying a highly successful career as playwright and screenwriter; he had scored a major hit in 1927 when his play <em>The Jazz Singer <\/em>(1925) had become the basis for the first-ever sound motion picture (the first talkie, that is). <sup><a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; gap=&#8221;15&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679915430627{margin-top: -20px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1678819904480{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;16493&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679691044978{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 40px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1678820692746{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1669830733727{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679915556341{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cQ\u201d Club was a part of Eastman School life for four academic years (1938-39 through 1941-42).\u00a0 Altogether, the club\u2019s members produced the following works, each one staged in Kilbourn Hall for one performance:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">1938-39:<br \/>\nA<em>ccent on Youth <\/em>by Samson Raphaelson\u00a0 (April 1, 1939)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">1939-40:<br \/>\n<em>Another Language <\/em>by Rose Franken (December 16, 1939)<br \/>\n<em>The Guardsman <\/em>by Frank Molnar (March 16, 1940)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">1940-41:<br \/>\n<em>The Dover Road <\/em>\u00a0by A. A. Milne (May 10, 1941)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">1941-42:<br \/>\n<em>The Night of January 16th <\/em>\u00a0by Ayn Rand (May 9, 1942)<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679915538593{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Each of these five plays was described by its respective author as a comedy in three acts.<sup><a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> <\/sup>\u00a0It should be noted that each was in the repertory at that very time, having recently enjoyed a run on Broadway, and three of them also in the West End.\u00a0 The plays of A. A. Milne (1882-1956) had been enjoying success on Broadway and in the West End since the early 1920s; by the time of the \u201cQ\u201d Club in 1941, Mr. Milne was also known for his children\u2019s books featuring that loveable bear Winnie the Pooh, which had been published in the 1920s.\u00a0 Hungarian-born Ferenc Moln\u00e1r (1878-1952) was a playwright, poet, director, and World War I correspondent who by this time was regarded at home as Hungary\u2019s foremost playwright.\u00a0 Mr. Moln\u00e1r would spend his final years (1940-52) in the USA, where he enjoyed a certain critical and popular success.<sup><a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup> His play <em>The Guardsman <\/em>(1910) had served as the basis for a 1931 motion picture starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, one of Hollywood\u2019s power couples of the screen.\u00a0 Rose Franken (1895-1988) had begun writing as a diversion while caring for her ailing husband; after writing her first play (unproduced), she wrote <em>Hallam Wives <\/em>(1929) and a short time later reworked as <em>Another Language <\/em>(1932); in that form the play met with critical and popular success.\u00a0 The \u201cQ\u201d Club\u2019s choice of play in 1942 was by none other than Ayn Rand (pen name for Alice O\u2019Connor; lived 1905-82), best known today for her novels and her much-discussed philosophy,<sup><a href=\"#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup> but at that time receiving some attention for the stage plays that she had written in the 1930s.\u00a0 <em>The Night of January 16th\u00a0 <\/em>(1934) was inspired by the true-life events surrounding the death of Swedish engineer and industrialist Ivar Kreuger (1880-1932).\u00a0 Set in a courtroom during a murder trial, the play has a noteworthy twist in that members of the audience are selected to play the jury.<sup><a href=\"#_ftn5\" name=\"_ftnref5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>In keeping with the club\u2019s stated mission \u201c. . .to provide a workshop theater for all students interested in the study and production of drama and all things pertinent to the theater,\u201d<sup><a href=\"#_ftn6\" name=\"_ftnref6\">[6]<\/a> <\/sup>members of the \u201cQ\u201d Club managed all aspects of production\u2014not only the actors playing speaking roles on-stage, but also the numerous other responsibilities, including publicity, properties, costumes, and building sets.\u00a0 Each printed program acknowledged individuals who had provided assistance in some capacity; these included the deputy chief of the Rochester Police Department, who was thanked for having provided technical assistance to the production of the <em>The Night of January 16th.\u00a0 <\/em>\u201cQ\u201d Club members also reached out to local merchants and businesses for material support, duly acknowledging those parties in the printed programs.\u00a0 Advertisements for those same merchants and businesses can be seen in the Eastman School\u2019s yearbooks in various years.\u00a0 Support also came from a number of patrons and patronesses (ah, those good old gender-specific nouns!), who were acknowledged in the printed programs; the roster of patrons in 1939 included the names of some truly illustrious citizens: Director Howard Hanson; Librarian Barbara Duncan; faculty members Dr. Fox (musicologist) and Mr. Konraty (artistic director of Eastman Opera), among others; and University President Dr. Valentine and his wife.\u00a0 Also cited were a young faculty couple, Mr. and Mrs. Karl Kneisel; today the Eastman community celebrates the memory of Jessie Hoskam Kneisel, longtime instructor of German to Eastman students,<sup><a href=\"#_ftn7\" name=\"_ftnref7\">[7]<\/a> <\/sup>and also the namesake of a highly respected vocal competition.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1710519647249{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1669830733727{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1710519707791{margin-top: 20px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>For posterity, we have few bases today for knowing the \u201cQ\u201d Club\u2019s full measure of success, alas.\u00a0 The printed program for the April 1st, 1939 production explicitly thanked faculty members\u00a0 H. O. Smith<sup><a href=\"#_ftn8\" name=\"_ftnref8\">[8]<\/a> <\/sup>and Wilbur Dingwell<sup><a href=\"#_ftn9\" name=\"_ftnref9\">[9]<\/a> <\/sup>and also the Student Association of the Eastman School \u201c. . .for their co-operation and interest in this initial production of the club.\u201d\u00a0 The Student Association\u2019s support was critical, for it endowed the club with a degree of approval, but thereafter, it would remain for the club\u2019s members to make good on that approval by way of outstanding work.\u00a0 At the end of that academic year, <em>The Score 1939 <\/em>\u00a0cited the \u201centhusiastic reception\u201d accorded the club\u2019s first production, which might be taken as one indication (not that the yearbook represented a neutral or disinterested source).\u00a0 <em>The Score 1940, <\/em>for its part, described the two productions staged in 1939-40 in glowing terms. Leading actor Florence Porter was singled out for mention for having been \u201chailed by local critics as a \u2018discovery\u2019\u201d (one wonders if Ms. Porter ever went on to do any other acting?).\u00a0 The blurb in <em>The Score 1940 <\/em>continued: \u201cThe group was so encouraged by this cordial reception that casting for another play was immediately begun. . .\u201d and further, that second production was described as \u201can even greater success than their fall production.\u201d<sup><a href=\"#_ftn10\" name=\"_ftnref10\">[10]<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup> One would like to know more, but apart from these laudatory words, no other indication of audience reception or reaction is extant, whether in any Eastman School student newspaper nor in the Rochester press.<sup><a href=\"#_ftn11\" name=\"_ftnref11\">[11]<\/a><\/sup>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679915757343{padding-top: 10px !important;}&#8221;][vc_images_carousel images=&#8221;16486,16487,16488&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1710519691903{margin-top: -10px !important;margin-left: 20px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679915843135{margin-top: -10px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1669830733727{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1710519481934{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;]Numerous members of the \u201cQ\u201d Club were socially active at school in other ways, and I\u2019d love to spend time tracking all of them.\u00a0 To name just one, Gilbert Van Nortwick, \u201942, a future public school music teacher back home in his native Cleveland, was a \u201cQ\u201d Club actor with speaking roles for all of his undergraduate years; he also served as editor-in-chief of <em>The Score 1941 <\/em>in his junior year, and as president of his senior class in 1941-42.\u00a0 In the wider world beyond Eastman, members of the \u201cQ\u201d Club went on to serve in a range of professional realms, and here I could truly dedicate an entire entry to discussing them.\u00a0 To restrict this to just two, \u201cQ\u201d Club founder Robert S. Dike, \u201942 became a mechanical engineer and enjoyed a distinguished career at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (Los Alamos, New Mexico).<sup><a href=\"#_ftn12\" name=\"_ftnref12\">[12]<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup> \u00a0Robert Hull, \u201941, another of the club\u2019s 1938-39 charter members, went on to serve as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona.\u00a0 Sadly, with World War II just around the corner, there would inevitably be casualties and losses.\u00a0 Thor Hamrin, another of the club\u2019s 1938-39 members, did not live to complete his higher education.\u00a0 In November, 1941 he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps and was eventually assigned to the 431st Bomber Squadron; he and his crew died in action off the coast of Truk, the Philippines in July,1944.<sup><a href=\"#_ftn13\" name=\"_ftnref13\">[13]<\/a><\/sup>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; gap=&#8221;10&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679916741764{margin-top: -10px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1678819904480{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;16492&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679916561441{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 5px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1678819890751{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-right: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 5px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;16494&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679916726045{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 5px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1678820692746{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1669830733727{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p><sup><a href=\"#_ftn13\" name=\"_ftnref13\"><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The 1942 production of <em>The Night of January 16th <\/em>\u00a0would prove to be the \u201cQ\u201d Club\u2019s valedictory endeavor; there is no record of any further productions.\u00a0 The reasons for the \u201cQ\u201d Club\u2019s cessation are not known, but it isn\u2019t difficult to surmise some of the challenges of the day.\u00a0 The USA\u2019s entry into World War II in December, 1941 wrought many a change throughout all of society; institutions of higher education were obliged to make adjustments to the new circumstances in the coming time.<sup><a href=\"#_ftn14\" name=\"_ftnref14\">[14]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0 Whatever the reasons may have been, it\u2019s documented that for those four years, the Eastman School of Music had enjoyed an experience of the theater arts owing to the industry and the inquiring, creative minds of its students.\u00a0 To be certain, in the past one hundred years there has been a handful of other, scattered student play productions in Kilbourn Hall, but no effort resembling the serious intention of the \u201cQ\u201d Club.\u00a0 The April 1st, 1939 performance of <em>Accent on Youth <\/em>amounted to something truly special; Eastman students once again breaking boundaries and doing something new.\u00a0 One more chapter of Eastman history to recall and to celebrate during this week at Eastman.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1678820692746{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #f4f4f4 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1669830733727{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}&#8221;][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221; el_width=&#8221;60&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0 The career of Samson Raphaelson\u2014author, screenwriter, playwright, and teacher\u2014is noteworthy in several respects.\u00a0 He published short stories, plays, and also a textbook on writing (<em>The Human Nature of Playwriting <\/em>(1949), which has been re-issued in recent years; the book grew out of his teaching creative writing at the University of Illinois.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0 <em>Another Language <\/em>was published as \u201ca comedy drama\u201d and \u201cThe Dover Road\u201d was published as \u201can absurd comedy\u201d.\u00a0 <em>The Night of January 16th <\/em>was promoted as \u201ca comedy-drama\u201d, the aspect of drama no doubt underscored by the play\u2019s courtroom setting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> \u00a0Among his numerous credits, his play <em>Liliom <\/em>(1909), a failure at home in Budapest, met with success abroad and was later the basis for the stage musical <em>Carousel <\/em>(1945).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\">[4]<\/a>\u00a0 Ms. Rand propounded a \u201cnew concept of egoism\u201d (her own quotation marks, not mine).\u00a0 The website of the Ayn Rand Institute presents an exposition of Ms. Rand\u2019s thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref5\" name=\"_ftn5\">[5]<\/a>\u00a0 When Kilbourn Hall was dedicated in March, 1922, UR faculty member and de facto poet laureate John R. Slater wrote a beautiful ode under the title \u201cHere Shall Music Have a Home\u201d.\u00a0 Professor Slater\u2019s verse opens with the following lines:\u00a0 \u201cHere shall music have a home. \/ Here shall many lovers come, \/ Seeking at her inner shrine \/ Meanings intimate, divine. \/ These four walls shall hear the strings \/ Telling of immortal things.\u201d\u00a0 In the past 101 years, the Kilbourn Hall stage has been the venue of the generous sharing of the art of music, and, incongruously, on one occasion a stage play by a writer whose philosophy precluded any humanitarian impulses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref6\" name=\"_ftn6\">[6]<\/a>\u00a0 So stated in the printed program for <em>Accent on Youth, <\/em>April 1, 1939.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref7\" name=\"_ftn7\">[7]<\/a>\u00a0 Mrs. Kneisel taught from 1932 until her retirement in 1976.\u00a0 She died in 1992.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref8\" name=\"_ftn8\">[8]<\/a>\u00a0 Harold Osborn Smith taught English.\u00a0 He served on the Eastman faculty from 1924 until his retirement in 1954.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref9\" name=\"_ftn9\">[9]<\/a>\u00a0 Mr. Dingwell was an was an instructor of English at the UR; he served from 1936 until 1940.\u00a0 Thanks to my colleague Melissa Mead, University Archivist for this information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref10\" name=\"_ftn10\">[10]<\/a> <em>The Score 1940, <\/em>pages 89 and 92.\u00a0 Accessible online at the UR Libraries Digital Collections site at URL:\u00a0 https:\/\/digitalcollections.lib.rochester.edu\/ur\/score-rochester-ny-1940 .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref11\" name=\"_ftn11\">[11]<\/a>\u00a0 Music reviewers routinely attended the larger Eastman School productions\u2014that is, ensemble concerts and opera productions\u2014to report on them in the local newspapers, but the SML\u2019s scrapbooks of Rochester press coverage don\u2019t happen to contain any reviews of \u201cQ\u201d Club productions. 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