by John Bence, Research Library Fellow, Emory University Archives
The Glee Club, 1926-27,
Emory University Archives
In the 1920s, the Emory University Glee Club was a blockbuster group, touring not only all of Georgia and the South but also New York, Washington, Havana, London, Paris, and Amsterdam. Founded on the Emory College campus in Oxford, Ga., the club moved to the Atlanta campus and was more formally organized soon thereafter. But the year 1920 marks the beginning of the Glee Club's celebrated history, when Professor Malcolm Dewey became the director.
