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Identifier: historyofhandelh23perk (find matches)
Title: History of the Handel and Haydn Society (founded A.D. 1815)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886 Dwight, John Sullivan, 1813-1893 Bradbury, William F. (William Frothingham), 1829-1914 Guild, Courtenay, 1863-1946 Handel and Haydn Society (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Handel and Haydn Society (Boston, Mass.) Choral societies
Publisher: Boston : Alfred Mudge & Son, printers
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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or the evening of November 15. The memorial service was held in Jacob Sleeper Hall at 8oclock. The Boston Festival Orchestra, conducted by Mr. Mol-lenhauer, played selections at the opening and at the close. Vice-President Russell presided and paid a tribute to Mr. Bradbury.He introduced Mr. A. Parker Browne, a former President of theSociety, who told of his many years of association with Mr. Brad-bury in work for the Society. Congressman Frederick W. Dallin-ger spoke of Mr. Bradburys civic life in Cambridge. Mr. Wil-lard Flint sang a bass solo and the chorus of the Society sangHappy and Blest from the oratorio St. Paul. Because of the large amount of extra work to be done in con-nection with the coming celebration of its one hundredth anni-versary it was desirable that the Society should have a full boardof officers. A special meeting was therefore held December 3,1914. Vice-President Eugene D. Russell was elected President,and Courtenay Guild, who was not present at the meeting, was
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EUGENE DEXTER RUSSELL Joined October 1. 1889.Director 1902-04 and 1906-08.Vice-President 1911 to 1914.President, December .S, 1914.Died. March 17, 191S. MAY 25 I9I4 TO MAY 24 I915 77 elected Vice-President. The vacancy in the Board of Directorswas then filled by the election of Henry Kuhns. When Mr. Guild was told of his election he said he had nodesire to carry the responsibility of a President of the Societyand hoped Mr, Russell would have good health and long life. Hishope was not gratified, for President Russell died suddenly onMarch 17, 1915 in the Lynn High School of which he was HeadMaster. Thus the chief office of the Society within less than fivemonths was held in succession by three men. It had seemed most fitting that Mr. Russell should carry onthe task relinquished by President Bradbury. He was born inthe same month of the same year that Mr. Bradbury graduatedfrom college. He too spent his boyhood in New Hampshire, andafter graduation from Harvard in 1880 became a teacher.

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