Conductors Timeline

Choral Class/The Choral Union

  •  1889–92: Frank Brackett
  •  1892–95: Arthur Bissell
  •  1895–98: John Comfort Fillmore
  •  1898–1901: Dwight Rice
  •  1901–02: William Andruss
  •  1902–03: Theodore Irwin
  •  1903–17: Fred Bacon
  •  1917–18: Ralph Lyman

The Pomona College Choir

  •  1920–48[1]: Ralph Lyman
  •  1948–49: Arthur Hitchcock
  •  1949–51: Edgar vom Lehn
  •  1951–82: William F. Russell
  •  1982–98: Jon Bailey
  •  1998–present: Donna M. Di Grazia

Sabbatical replacements: Arthur Babcock (Sp1928), Joseph Clokey (Sp1937), Timothy Mount (Sp1975), Peter Jaffe (Sp1985), Bud Wayne Bisbee (AY1990-91), Robert Duff (F2003), Christian Campos (F2007), David Rentz (F2017), and Jonathan Campbell (F2019)
 

The Men’s Glee Club

  •   1892: Lillian Brannan
  •   1892–94: Arthur Bissell
  •   1894: Arthur Smith ’94
  •   1897: John Comfort Fillmore
  •   1899–1901: Arthur Bissell
  •   1901–02: Frank Bissell
  •   1904–07: Fred Bacon
  •   1908–11: S. Earle Blakeslee ’08
  •   1911–12: William Clary ’12
  •   1912–17: Fred Bacon
  •   1917–47: Ralph Lyman
  •   1947–49: Arthur Hitchcock
  •   1949–51: Edgar vom Lehn
  •   1951–82: William F. Russell

Sabbatical replacements: Howard Swan ’28 (Sp1928) and Robert Shaw ’38 (Sp1937)
 

The Women’s Glee Club

  •   1902–03: Kate Condit
  •   1913–14: Byrde Eustis
  •   1914–15: Fred Bacon
  •   1915–23: Walter Hartley
  •   1923–31: Arthur Babcock
  •   1931–47: Ralph Lyman
  •   1947–49: Arthur Hitchcock
  •   1949–51: Edgar vom Lehn
  •   1951–82: William F. Russell

Sabbatical replacement: Dorothy Leezer Neible (Sp1937)
 

The Pomona College Glee Club (combined)

  •  1982–98: Jon Bailey
  •  1998–present: Donna M. Di Grazia

Sabbatical replacements: William Peterson (Sp1985) and B. Wayne Bisbee (Sp1991)


[1] During this period in the College’s history, the fall semester carried over into January. [back]