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Waddell, Romaine (b. , d. ?)

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Cause: Auto accident

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Note: Tonight, April 7, 2002, I spent a wonderful time talking with June on the phone. I learned that she had spent a large portion of her life playing a composing music. She has won musical competitions all over the United States, studied music in Paris, and traveled around the world.

Today she lives in Berkeley, California, in the home she and Ken retired to.

She is the 4th great granddaughter of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

The following is abstracted from The Fresno Bee, Monday, June 6, 1960, under the column "Women's Activities":

"Mrs. Craycroft, a graduate of the University of Nebraska, holds a masters degree from the Chicago Musical College. She has traveled extensively throughout the world and has been a music counselor at the MacGannet School for French and American children in Haute Savoie, France. Her sorority is Alpha Chi Omega.

"A piano solist at Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Mrs. Craycroft has arranged children's concerts and has composed music for children.

"She has studied with Rudolph Ganz of Chicago and Nadia Boulanger and Georges Migot of Paris."

After talking with June and reading this passage I was curious about the Chicago Musical College. I had never heard of this school although I've lived in the Chicago area a major part of my life. I did a search on the Internet and found the following at the web site for Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois.

Chicago Musical College was founded in 1867, less than four decades after the city of Chicago was incorporated. It has given over a hundred years of uninterrupted service to music and music education and has played an important role in the development of the cultural life of the Midwest.

In 1865, after initial efforts to establish a college of music, the Chicago Conservatorium of Music was founded, with Florenz Ziegfeld, Sr. as its director. (Ziegfeld Sr. was the father of Florenz Jr. who is better known as a successful and trail-blazing Broadway impresario.)

Two years later, Ziegfeld established his own Chicago Academy of Music, the direct predecessor of Chicago Music College. In 1871, the Academy moved to a new building which was destroyed a few weeks later by the Great Chicago Fire; despite the conflagration, the College was again up and running by the end of the year.

In 1872, the school changed its name to Chicago Musical College; over 900 students were enrolled in that first year. A Normal Teachers' Institute was added to the school's offerings. Tuition in those far-off days cost an average of one dollar per lesson. Four years later the State of Illinois accredited the College as a degree granting institution of higher learning. A Preparatory Division was opened which established branches throughout the city.

Rudolph Ganz joined CMC's faculty in 1900 and, except for a brief hiatus in the 1920s, remained associated with the school until his death in 1972. In 1917, CMC offered a Master of Music Degree, and seven years later the School became a charter member of the National Association of Schools of Music.

By 1925, the College moved into its own eleven-story building at 64 E. Van Buren Street. One hundred and twenty-five names appeared on the faculty roster for that year, and the School opened three dormitory floors for students. In 1936, CMC was admitted as a full member to the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the only independent music college in the Midwest to enjoy such status. By 1947 the College was offering Doctorates in Fine Arts and Music Education.

In 1954, CMC merged with Roosevelt University's School of Music which was founded in 1945. The name "Chicago Musical College" was retained for the new college which was created by the union of the two schools. All operations moved to join the University in the famed Auditorium Building at 430 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago's Loop.

In the Fall of 1997 Roosevelt established a College of Performing Arts which joined Chicago Musical College and the Theater Department under one administrative umbrella. In 2000, under the leadership of new dean James Gandre, the name was changed to Chicago College of Performing Arts. The College has three divisions: The Music Conservatory; The Theatre Conservatory; and The Community Academy.

Written by Don Draganski

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Title: E-mail from Gary Joel Craycroft

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Text: Mom's maiden name was Goethe. My birth father's name was Austin Garrels [1913 > 2000]. They were amicably divorced in 1944.

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Note: Taken from e-mail from Gary, 4/4/2002:

I was Navy on a destroyer '66-'69. The Ltjg guess is correct. We deployed twice: mostly shore bombardment in I & II Corps, plane guard on Yankee Station, and babysitting the Russian trawler up at the DMZ. Never got to Cam Ranh, but spent a lot of time in Danang harbor. FYI, embarked two RVN officers for "familiarization" in '67, one of whom hot-bunked in my rack; definite culture-shock for us both!

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Title: E-mail from Gary Joel Craycroft

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Title: E-mail from Gary Joel Craycroft

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Title: E-mail from Gary Joel Craycroft

Occupation: Date: 2002
Place: High school teacher

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Title: E-mail from Gary Joel Craycroft

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