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Raymond William Kendall
The Michigan Alumnus 192
The Michigan Alumnus 192
Musicology, or the scientific study of musical facts in all their ramifications, including fields as history, theory, aes thetics, acoustics, anthropology, etc., in contrast to composition and performance, is the subject taught by Pro fessor W. Raymond Kendall, who joined the staff in 1945.
Besides his teaching duties and membership in a host of organizations, he has been serv ing as Executive Director of the Rach maninoff Fund, Inc., since 1945; and the war years he was Special Consultant on Music in the Office of the Secretary of War at Washington; as well as representative of the USO and USAFI Joint Army-Navy Com mittee on Recreation, Music Council, also at Washington.
Dr. Ken dall was born at Pasadena, California, March 21, 1910, and attended Pasa dena High school and Junior College. He received a B.A. degree from Occi dental College in 1932; an M.A. from Stanford in 1937; attended Eastman School of Music for several months; studied at the University of Basel, Switzerland, for a year; and received a Ph.D. degree from Cornell Univer sity in 1940.
Dr. Kendall began his teaching career as instructor of organ and theory at Whittier College in Cal ifornia, and later served as instructor in music and assistant university or ganist at Stanford. He was named Act ing Executive Head of the Division of Music at Stanford in 1934-35 and 1936-37, and from 1940-42 he served as Assistant Professor of Music at Dartmouth College.
In addition to ac tivities mentioned above in connection with the war, he was National Director of Activity Services and Music Coordi nator for the United Service Organiza tions, Inc., for three years; and for two years served as music consultant on the editorial staff of the U. S. Armed Forces Institute.
A few of the organ izations of which Dr. Kendall is a member are Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, National Music Coun cil and the American Musicological So ciety. He was married to Elizabeth H. McClelland, who passed away just last Fall, and has two sons—Robert, 6, and Peter, 2.