Word: dunham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunham '25, instructor in physics, will take part in one of the expeditions beings sent to all parts of the world this summer to study cosmic rays under the general direction of professor Compton of the University of Chicago...
Members of the University who will address the societies are J. C. Dunham, O. K. Rice, M. H. Johnson, Jr. '29, H. M. Smallwood, Professor E. L. Chaffee '11, William Duane '93, and Professor P. W. Bridgeman. Professor Chaffee will be chairman of the symposium on "Electronic Devices and their Applications to Research with Special Reference to Radiation Sensitive Devies", while Professor Bridgeman is to lecture on "Anomalies in the Behavior of Solids under Pressure", on Saturday at Pierce Hall. Both the latter sessions should be understandable by the average student...
...that is the way he plays Don Quixote, complete with suit of armor and greying spade beard. J. N. Foran ably sings an ably written tune, "No More Happiness." D. S. McMillan is a creditable heroine. Notably missing from this year's production is blond, birdlike, ballet-dancing Harry Dunham of last year's show?much to the relief of those graduates who were beginning to wonder if Princeton's female impersonators were not getting too good. The somewhat garbled plot of Spanish Blades is extracted from Carmen, The Barber of Seville, Don Quixote...
Died. Alanson Mellen ("Mellie") Dunham, 78, white-haired fiddler protege of Henry Ford; at Lewiston, Me. Mr. Ford, entranced by Mr. Dunham's rendition of "Turkey in the Straw" & "Boston Fancy," took him to Detroit for one of his old-fashioned parties. A vaudeville tour afterward did not go to his head. Playing on Broadway, he still wore mackinaw, rubber shoes, woolen shirt. In his own district, where there were lots of fiddlers, he was famed for his snowshoes. His proudest boast was that he equipped Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary for snowshoeing to the North Pole...
...problem, decided the National Association of Organists when 200 delegates met in Manhattan last week for its 24th annual convention, is the increasing tendency of churches to employ "choral specialists" in place of organists. Said Rowland W. Dunham, director of the College of Music at the University of Colorado (Boulder, Col.): "We are all agreed that good, unaccompanied choral singing is beautiful, appropriate and desirable, but is that all that should be heard in church? Shall the organ be silent except for its necessary help on the hymns, a very short prelude and a totally useless postlude? I think...