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NTSU School of Music

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Longtime North Texas music professor and wife. Bob Rogers’ childhood in Bartlesville and Tulsa, Oklahoma; education at Julliard School of Music and Columbia Teachers College; service in World War II-era Army; and career as faculty member in North Texas School of Music (piano) from 1948 to 1984, including experience with State Senator Lyndon B. Johnson and memories of “’Fess” Graham. Daisy Rogers’ childhood in Red Eagle and Tulsa, Oklahoma, and education at Oklahoma A&M.

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Former dean of the North Texas State University School of Music, 1938-47. His experiences in the establishment of the NTSU school of music as one of national prominence. Education and musical background; appointment as chairman of the Department of Music; establishment of the NTSU School of Music and his appointment as dean; establishment of the jazz program; appointment as dean of the school of Music at Indiana University; comments about President W. Joseph McConnell, Silvio Scionti, Floyd Graham, Mary McCormic, Helen Hewitt, Walter Robert, Ralph Daniel, “Aces of Collegeland.”