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#11251

Jeremy Dale Roberts

#181697

Overall Influence

1934 - 2017 (83 years)

Jeremy Dale Roberts was an English composer and teacher. After early contact with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gerald Finzi, Dale Roberts studied with William Alwyn and Priaulx Rainier at the Royal Academy of Music, London. He retired as Head of Composition at the Royal College of Music, London in 1999, and was a Visiting Professor of Composition at the University of Iowa for the 1999-2000 academic year.

#11252

Eric G. Swedin

#108761

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Eric G. Swedin is an American author of science fiction and academic nonfiction works. He is a professor of history at Weber State University in Utah. Swedin is the 2010 long form winner of the Sidewise Award for his alternate history novel When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a consultant for the Emmy Award-winning documentary, Clouds Over Cuba, which was created for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

#11253

Chloë Bass

#168795

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Chloë Bass is an American conceptual artist who works in performance and social practice. Bass' work focuses on intimacy. She was a founding co-lead organizer of Arts in Bushwick from 2007 to 2011, the group that organizes Bushwick Open Studios. She is an Assistant Professor of Art and Social Practice at Queens College, CUNY, and holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Brooklyn College. Bass was a regular contributor to Hyperallergic until 2018. She is represented by Alexander Gray Associates.

#11254

Raffaella Carrà

#186196

Overall Influence

1943 - 2021 (78 years)

Raffaella Maria Roberta Pelloni , better known as Raffaella Carrà , was an Italian singer, dancer, television presenter, actress and model. Considered a pop culture icon in Europe and Latin America, between the 1970s and 1980s she became a pioneer of feminism and women's sexual freedom in television and music industry, as well as an icon of the LGBT community and fashion and design.

#11255

Gary Wilson

#168957

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Gary Wilson is an American experimental musician and performance artist best known for his 1977 album You Think You Really Know Me, after, he released 3 more recordings: “Midnight Hour/When I Spoke Of Love” and “Forgotten Lovers EP” “Invasion Of Privacy” , and “This Is Why I Wear My Wedding Gown” . Shortly after, he promptly retired from recording and kept performing until 1983. He slowly gained a strong cult following during the 1980s and 1990s, and in the early 2000s became active again. As of 2023, he has released fifteen full-length albums.

#11256

Sergio De La Torre

#171822

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Sergio De La Torre is a Mexican photographer, filmmaker and performance artist who teaches photography and film at the University of San Francisco. De La Torre is originally from the Tijuana/San Diego border and migrated to San Francisco. He is the co-founder of the performance group Los Tricksters who perform at various street fairs, academic conferences, art galleries and film festivals.

#11257

Art Jarvinen

#183596

Overall Influence

1956 - 2010 (54 years)

Arthur Justin Jarvinen was an American composer. Of Finnish heritage, he was the son of a Lutheran clergyman and grew up in Ohio and Canada. He attended the California Institute of the Arts, studying percussion with John Bergamo, Karen Ervin Pershing, and Ruth Underwood. He eventually studied composition there with Morton Subotnick, Stephen Mosko, and Earle Brown. In 1981, he earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree and began teaching at the California Institute of the Arts, as well as becoming one of the original members of the California EAR Unit.

#11258

Veronika Hagen

#182773

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Veronika Hagen is an Austrian violist. Born in Salzburg, Hagen began to learn music at the age of six with her father, who was at that time concertmaster of the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. She then continued her studies at the Musik Hochschule of Salzburg with Helmut Zehetmair and at the Musik Hochschule of Hanover with Hatto Beyerle. During her studies she won several prizes, including the Budapest International Viola Competition in 1984.

#11259

Thomas Sleeper

#161246

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Thomas M. Sleeper was an American composer and conductor. He was the Orchestra Conductor at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida from 1985 to 1993, and Director of Orchestral Activities and Conductor of the University of Miami Frost Symphony Orchestra until his retirement in 2018. He was also the director of the Florida Youth Orchestra from 1993 to 2020.

#11260

Lawrence Dillon

#184155

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Lawrence Dillon is an American composer, and Composer in Residence at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. His music has a wide range of expression, generally within a tonal idiom notable both for its rhythmic propulsiveness and a strong lyrical element. Acclaimed particularly for his chamber music, he has also written extensively for voice and large ensembles.

#11261

Dumisani Maraire

#178791

Overall Influence

1943 - 1999 (56 years)

Abraham Dumisani Maraire , known to friends as "Dumi", was a Zimbabwean musician. He was a master performer of the mbira, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. He specialized in the form of mbira called nyunga nyunga, as well as the Zimbabwean marimba. He introduced Zimbabwean music to North America, initiating a flourishing of Zimbabwean music in the Pacific Northwest that continues into the 21st century.

#11262

Robert Mealy

#174252

Overall Influence

Robert Mealy is a performer and teacher of baroque violin. He holds a joint position at the Yale School of Music and the Department of Music of Yale University, where he directs the Yale Collegium Musicum and teaches classes in musical rhetoric and historically-informed performance. He has recorded over 50 CDs of early music, ranging from Hildegard of Bingen with Sequentia, to Renaissance consorts with the Boston Camerata, to Rameau operas with Les Arts Florissants. At home in New York, he is a frequent leader and soloist with the New York Collegium, Early Music New York, the Clarion Music So...

#11263

John Ellis

#181507

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

John Axson Ellis is an American jazz saxophonist. He performed in the group Doublewide with Jason Marsalis. Career A native of North Carolina, Ellis learned clarinet and piano as a child. During the 1990s in New Orleans he studied with Ellis Marsalis and performed with Brian Blade and Nicholas Payton. He released his debut album, Language of Love, independently in 1996. He received a music degree from the New School in New York City and won second place in the 2002 Thelonius Monk Institue of Jazz International Saxophone Competition. He traveled to Africa as a cultural ambassador for the Unite...

#11264

Klaus Lang

#178659

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Klaus Lang is an Austrian composer, concert organist, improviser, and academic teacher. His opera Die Architektur des Regens after the Noh play Shiga by Zeami was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2008.

#11265

Marva Griffin Carter

#175870

Overall Influence

Marva Griffin Carter is an American musician, composer, musicologist, and author. She has worked as an academic administrator and professor at Georgia State University since 1993. In 2020 the Society for American Music recognized her work with a Lifetime Achievement Award, granted "in recognition of the recipient's significant and substantial lifetime achievement in scholarship, performance, teaching, and/or support of American Music."

#11266

Ivo Maček

#179423

Overall Influence

1914 - 2002 (88 years)

Ivo Maček was a prominent Croatian pianist, composer, teacher, editor and academician. He was born in Sušak on 24 March 1914 and died in Zagreb on 26 May 2002. On account of his diverse social work, for his work as pianist, composer and editor, he was the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions.

#11267

Gerome Ragni

#175665

Overall Influence

1935 - 1991 (56 years)

Gerome Ragni was an American actor, singer, and songwriter, best known as one of the stars and co-writers of the 1967 musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical. On June 18, 2009, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

#11268

Mike Miller

#149265

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Mike Miller is an American rock and jazz guitarist. He has worked with Chick Corea, Bette Midler, Yellowjackets, Brand X, Burton Cummings, Vinnie Colaiuta, Quincy Jones, Gino Vannelli, and Vital Information.

#11269

Mirko Dorner

#186992

Overall Influence

1921 - 2004 (83 years)

Mirko Dorner was a German-Hungarian cellist, composer and painter, raised in Belgrade. Dorner was trained at the Belgrade Conservatory and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia . He then returned to Belgrade, teaching at its Conservatory before settling in 1954 in Germany as the cello soloist at the Berlin Philharmonic and a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and from 1965 at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. In the meantime Dorner won the 1949 Concours de Geneve and the 1952 Vercelli's Viotti competition.

#11270

Andrew Schultz

#152996

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Andrew Schultz is an acclaimed Australian classical composer. A musician with a large and widely performed output and an international sphere of activity he has, since 2008, lived in Sydney, New South Wales. He studied at the Universities of Queensland and Pennsylvania and at King's College London and he has received many awards, prizes and fellowships including a Fulbright Award , the Albert H. Maggs Composition Award , Grand-Prix, Opera Screen de Opéra-Bastille , the APRA Award for Classical Composition of the Year , the Schueler Award , the Paul Lowin Prize and the Centenary of Canberra Symphony Commission .

#11271

Kamran Ince

#119066

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Kamran N. Ince is a Turkish-American composer. He is the winner of many prestigious awards, including a Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lili Boulanger Memorial Prize, and various others. His work has been performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Piano Quartet, the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, the Milwaukee Opera Theatre, the Arkas Trio, Evelyn Glennie, Lily Afshar, and others, and his recordings can be found on Naxos, EMI, Albany, and Archer Records. He is known ...

#11272

Tālivaldis Ķeniņš

#173660

Overall Influence

1919 - 2008 (89 years)

Tālivaldis Ķeniņš was a Canadian composer. He was forced to emigrate from Latvia when it fell under Soviet occupation after World War II, moving to Canada around 1951. He is credited by Canadian musicologist Paul Rapoport with having introduced many European idioms to Canadian art music. CBC Music described him as a "pioneering Canadian composer" and The Canadian Encyclopedia described him as "one of Canada's most frequently commissioned composers."

#11273

Ron O'Brien

#88001

Overall Influence

Ron O'Brien is an American diving coach and author. He was the head Ohio State University coach from 1963-78. He coached Greg Louganis. Athletic career O’Brien began his athletic career as a diver at the YMCA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Once in college at Ohio State University, he earned six varsity letters in gymnastics and diving. In diving he went on to become NCAA national champion on 1 meter springboard and AAU national champion on 3 meter springboard . After his college career, he worked as a performer in a professional water stunt show alongside fellow dive coach Dick Kimball. In 1960...

#11274

Balwantrai Bhatt

#177797

Overall Influence

1921 - 2016 (95 years)

Pandit Balwant Rai Bhatt was a noted Indian composer and musician of Hindustani Vocal Music. He was also known as Bhavrang . He died at his home in Varanasi on 2 May 2016. Early life and background Balwant Rai Bhatt was born in Bhavnagar, Gujarat to Smt. Harkunvar and Shri Gulabrai Bhatt on 23 September 1921.

#11275

Jerry Hunt

#177960

Overall Influence

1943 - 1993 (50 years)

Jerry Edward Hunt was an American composer who created works using live electronics partly controlled by his ritualistic performance techniques which were influenced by his interest in the occult. He was considered a pioneer of live, electronic and computer-aided audio and video. Hunt lived his entire life in Texas, living in a house he built himself on his family's ranchland. For Hunt, it was financially necessary to live in Texas, but almost impossible to create a career within the state. Hunt was often described as "hyperactive" and always on the move. He was also often either chewing on tobacco or chewing gum.

#11276

Danae Kara

#185354

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Danae Kara is a Greek classical concert pianist, recording artist, and educator, best known for her interpretations of 20th century Greek modernist composers. Early life Danae Kara was born on 27 July 1953 in Istanbul, Turkey. She began music lessons at the age of five, in 1958, at the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory with Ferdi Statzer . Having immigrated to Greece in 1966, she continued at the Athens Conservatory with the pianist Maria Cherogeorge-Sigara and composer Konstantinos Kydoniatis for theory, earning both her "Piano Soloist’s Diploma" and "Advanced Theory Diploma" with the distinction of "First Prize" and "Gold Medal of Iph.

#11277

Sultana Wahnón

#168344

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Sultana Wahnón Bensusan is a Spanish essayist and literary critic, a professor at the University of Granada specializing in literary theory and comparative literature. Academic activity Sultana Wahnón graduated in Spanish Philology in 1982, with a licentiate in the poetry of the National Literature Prize winner , a Melillan author to whom she has dedicated two books. Her doctoral thesis, defended in 1987 and published by Rodopi in 1998, consists of a description of the Spanish fascist aesthetic system and the analysis of its progressive dissolution in postwar literary criticism. Specializing ...

#11278

Ludger Lohmann

#150117

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Ludger Lohmann is a highly acknowledged organist. Lohmann studied school and church music, musicology, philosophy and geography in Cologne. He studied organ with Wolfgang Stockmeier and harpsichord with Hugo Ruf. He took private lessons with Anton Heiller in Vienna and Marie-Claire Alain in Paris. From 1979 to 1984, Lohmann taught organ at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. From 1983 to 2020, he was Professor of Organ at State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart and for 25 years organist at Stuttgart Cathedral. Iveta Apkalna has been one of his students.

#11279

Jeffrey Solow

#169150

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Jeffrey Solow is an American cellist. Biography Born in Los Angeles, Solow began cello lessons at the age of 7 with Gregory Aller, the grandfather of Leonard Slatkin, and had further studies with Gabor Rejto. He studied with and was assistant to Gregor Piatigorsky while pursuing a degree in Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1969 he won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions which led to his New York City recital debut at Carnegie Recital Hall. Since then he has appeared as a soloist with many orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Japan Phi...

#11280

Chinary Ung

#150318

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Chinary Ung is a composer currently living in California, United States. Career After arriving in the US in 1965 to study clarinet, he turned to composition studies with Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky, receiving a Doctor of Musical Arts from Columbia University in 1974. In 1988, he became the first American to win the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for musical composition. Additionally, he received the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, as well as awards from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Asia Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundatio...

#11281

Anna Barbara Speckner

#184130

Overall Influence

1902 - 1995 (93 years)

Anna Barbara Speckner was a German harpsichordist, pianist, and music editor. She was married to Greek musicologist, pianist, and philosopher Thrasybulos Georgiades. Life Speckner was born in Munich, Germany on 20 October 1902. She studied piano with composer August Schmid-Lindner at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich from 1927 to 1936. She then went on to study with Dorothee Günther-Schule in Munich. From 1962 to 1968, Speckner taught harpsichord during the summer months at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. In 1966, she began teaching at the Orff Institute Salzburg .

#11282

Leta Hong Fincher

#74197

Overall Influence

Leta Hong Fincher is an American journalist, feminist and writer. Biography Fincher was born in British Hong Kong, to a Chinese-American mother with roots in Xiamen, Fujian, and a European-American father. She grew up in Canberra after her parents received tenures at Australian National University. Her mother, a linguist, and her father, a historian, were both Chinese scholars, and she spent a significant portion of her childhood travelling to and from China. As a child, she spoke Mandarin at home with her mother.

#11283

Hans Bergström

#18339

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Nils Hans Ingemar Bergström is a Swedish-American journalist and political scientist. Biography Bergström was born in Ambjörby, Torsby Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden. His father was a local politician of the Social Democratic Party and editor of the local newspaper Värmlands Folkblad. He studied at Karlstad campus of the University of Gothenburg from 1967 to 1970 and earned a B.A. in political science, economics, cultural geography and statistics. Thereafter he was employed as a secretary at the People's Party's parliament office . In 1972 he became a speech writer and assistant to People's Party leader Gunnar Helén.

#11284

Charles M. Roessel

#169811

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Charles Monty Roessel is a Navajo photographer, journalist and academic administrator. Roessel served as Director of the Bureau of Indian Education from 2013 until 2016. He currently serves as the president of Diné College.

#11285

Hal Stein

#185109

Overall Influence

1928 - 2008 (80 years)

Harold Jerome Stein was an American jazz musician and bebop saxophone player. Stein began performing on the tenor saxophone in the early 1940s in New York City. As a teen he frequently sat in with Don Byas, whom he considered a mentor, and Erroll Garner, at The Three Deuces on 52nd Street. In 1945 he was featured in concert with pianist Teddy Wilson at Town Hall on the same bill with Byas, Stuff Smith, and Charlie Parker. During the same year, Stein recorded with Doc Pomus, Tab Smith and Leonard Feather. He went on to work with Gene Krupa, Buddy Morrow, Les Elgart, Artie Shaw, Charles Mingus, Rudy Williams, Roy Haynes, Georgie Auld, Claude Thornhill, J.

#11286

John Stewart

#181550

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

John Harger Stewart is an American tenor, conductor, and voice teacher who had an active international singing career in concerts and operas from 1964 to 1990. He began his career singing regularly with the Santa Fe Opera from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s; after which he appeared only periodically in Santa Fe up through the mid-1980s. He was particularly active with the New York City Opera during the 1970s and 1980s, and with the Frankfurt Opera from the mid-1970s through 1990. He also appeared as a guest artist with several other important American opera companies, including the Met...

#11287

Daniel Gortler

#174987

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Daniel Gortler is an Israeli pianist and pedagogue. Education and early life Born and raised in Israel, Gortler began studying classical music and piano with Naomi Hachohen. He graduated from the Rubin Music Academy in Tel-Aviv. He continued his musical studies graduating from the Musikhochschule Hannover, where he studied with Professor Arie Vardi.

#11288

Andrea Romano

#172017

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Andrea Romano is an Italian politician. Biography Andrea Romano attends secondary school by the Salesians in his hometown, Livorno, then he graduated in Pisa and obtained a research doctorate in Crisis and transformation of society in Turin.

#11289

Nikita Mikhalkov

Nikita Mikhalkov

#179187

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is a Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union. Mikhalkov is a three-time laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation and is a Full Cavalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland".

#11290

Vladimir Georgievski

#182664

Overall Influence

1964 - 2017 (53 years)

Vladimir Georgievski was a Macedonian painter and a professor at the University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius and the University for Audiovisual Arts in Skopje. Early life and education Vladimir Georgievski was born during World War II, on 1 June 1943 in Skopje, in the Axis-occupied Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

#11291

Matt Kenyon

#170047

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Matthew Kenyon is an American new media artist and director of the art practice, S.W.A.M.P. . Kenyon focuses on critical themes addressing global corporate operations, mass media, military-industrial complexes, and the liminal area between reality and artificial life.

#11292

Naoyoshi Hikosaka

#119922

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Naoyoshi Hikosaka is a Japanese artist and one of the founders of the activist group Bikyōtō. He was an artist-theorist who critiqued Mono-ha, worked in conceptualism in the first half of the 1970s, and turned to painting from the second half of the 1970s onward.

#11293

Alfred Strombergs

#94571

Overall Influence

1922 - 2006 (84 years)

Alfred Strombergs was a Canadian conductor, music educator, and pianist of Latvian birth. In 1954 he became a naturalized Canadian citizen. As a conductor he is primarily remembered for his work with the Canadian Opera Company and the Stratford Festival from the late 1950s through the early 1970s. He also notably conducted the world premieres of several orchestral works by composer Tālivaldis Ķeniņš, including his fifth and seventh symphonies.

#11294

Jo-Michael Scheibe

Jo-Michael Scheibe

#159624

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Jo-Michael Scheibe was the former chair of the Department of Choral and Sacred Music at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. Following a sabbatical in Fall of 2022, Scheibe retired from his position as Professor of Choral and Sacred Music and was named Professor Emeritus of Music. In April 2023, he was named a 2023-2024 Fulbright Scholar in Ireland. He formerly conducted the USC Chamber Singers. In 2011 he assumed a new post as National President of the American Choral Directors’ Association. No stranger to the ACDA, Scheibe previously served as the organizat...

#11295

Martha Strongin Katz

#172374

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Martha Strongin Katz is a violist and member of the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where she teaches viola and chamber music. She was a founding member of the Cleveland Quartet, along with her former husband, Paul Katz , and Peter Salaff and Donald Weilerstein . From 1969 until her departure from the group in 1980, she performed more than 1,000 concerts, including appearances at the White House, the Grammy Awards, on the NBC Today Show, and in the major concert halls of five continents.

#11296

Paul Makanowitzky

#184176

Overall Influence

1920 - 1998 (78 years)

Paul Makanowitzky was an American violinist, and violin teacher. Life He studied with Ivan Galamian, and Jacques Thibaud. He made his debut in 1929, in Salle Gaveau, Paris, and New York debut in 1937. In 1942, he volunteered to fight in World War II for the United States.

#11297

Norman O'Connor

#171273

Overall Influence

1921 - 2003 (82 years)

Norman James O'Connor, CSP , also known as The Jazz Priest, was an American Paulist priest known for playing and promoting jazz music. Biography O'Connor became interested in jazz music at an early age and played piano with local jazz bands while in high school. He continued to work occasionally as a musician into the 1940s, but had abandoned the thought of music as a career by the time he enrolled at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He wrote his doctoral thesis on the aesthetics of popular music.

#11298

France Ellegaard

France Ellegaard

#178324

Overall Influence

1913 - 1999 (86 years)

France Marguerite Ellegaard was a Finnish pianist and music educator, born in France to Danish parents. She was considered one of the 20th century's great concert pianists. The daughter of cyclist Thorvald Ellegaard and Karen Kirstine Nicolaysen, she was born in Paris. Ellegaard studied at the Paris Conservatory and gave her first Danish performance in Copenhagen in 1927. She performed throughout Scandinavia and in the music capitals of Europe. Following the German invasion of Denmark in 1940, she remained in Denmark and then, in 1943, went to Sweden as a political refugee. She married Finnish painter Birger Carlstedt in 1949 and became a Finnish citizen.

#11299

Mykhailo Urytskyi

Mykhailo Urytskyi

#108994

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Mykhailo Urytskyi is a Ukrainian puppet theater director, and a teacher at The Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Mykhailo Urytskyi is a laureate of international festivals and theater awards.

#11300

John Verrall

#179793

Overall Influence

1908 - 2001 (93 years)

John Weedon Verrall was an American composer of contemporary classical music. Life Prior to his University studies, Verrall studied composition with Donald Ferguson, followed by studies with R. O. Morris in London and Zoltán Kodály in Budapest. He obtained a BM degree from the Minneapolis School of Music in 1929, and a BA from the University of Minnesota in 1934. In the early 1930s he spent several summers at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, where he studied composition with Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, and Frederick Jacobi. He taught at Hamline University from 1934 to 1942 and Mount Holyoke College from 1942 to 1946, during which time he briefly served in the U.S.

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