J. Freyhan Odenheimer (October 2, 1907 in New Orleans, Louisiana – November 2, 1982)[1] was a member of the Virginia Glee Club during the Glee Club 1928-1929 season. A second year during the season, he was also president of Zeta Beta Tau, the football team, the College Topics staff, and had been a member of the first year football team.[2]
Odenheimer was called home during the 1929-1930 season to work in his father's cotton mill in New Orleans during the Great Depression. Though he never received his degree from the University, he remained a stout Wahoo throughout his life, and his great-granddaughter, Beverly Freyhan Caplan, attends the University as a member of the class of 2023.[3]
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- ↑ "Freyhan Odenheimer". JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (Ancestry.com). http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=J.+freyhan&gsln=odenheimer&mswpn__ftp=New+Orleans%2c+Orleans%2c+Louisiana%2c+USA&mswpn=34322&mswpn_PInfo=8-%7c0%7c1652393%7c0%7c2%7c3246%7c21%7c0%7c2249%7c34322%7c0%7c&msbdy=1910&uidh=qoc&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=1049503&recoff=12+13+14&db=JG_BurialRegistry&indiv=1&ml_rpos=2. Retrieved 2014-01-01.
- ↑ Corks and Curls. 1929. p. 110.
- ↑ Miller, Ed (Summer/Fall 2022). "That Good Old Stuff of Wahoowa". UVA Magazine. https://uvamagazine.org/articles/uva_memorabilia.