Linwood Lehman, courtesy Special Collections
Ernest Linwood Lehman (1895-January 23,1953)[1] was a professor and alumnus of the University of Virginia who is best known to Virginia Glee Club audiences as the author of the Virginia Yell Song.
A native of Suffolk, Lehman was in the first class of initiates for the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at UVa.[2] He graduated from the University with a bachelors degree in 1915, took his masters in 1917, and finished his PhD in 1920, when he became an assistant professor of Latin.[3] He became full professor in 1930.[1] Among his students was Glee Club member Ernest Mead, who remembered Lehman as "somewhat offbeat with chic tastes, great humor and fine sensibilities."[4]
Lehman was one of only two Jewish faculty members at UVa during the first half of the 20th century.[5] He is buried in the University of Virginia Cemetery near the grave of Harry Rogers Pratt.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Linwood Lehman, Doctor". Virginian Pilot Obituaries. http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/virginiabeach/obits/obitsl.txt. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
- ↑ University of Virginia Inter-Fraternity Council (1947). Fraternities and Virginia. http://books.google.com/books?id=Me5KAAAAYAAJ&q=linwood+lehman&dq=linwood+lehman&hl=en&ei=LXflTOyUDMiSnwe-krjeDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBDgU.
- ↑ "Corks and Curls, 1927". http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/University_of_Virginia_Corks_and_Curls_Yearbook/1927/Page_54.html. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
- ↑ Bywater, Leslie (1994-04-06). "Songs elucidate rich past". The Cavalier Daily. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mKMcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=q28EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4136,6353173&dq=linwood+lehman&hl=en.
- ↑ "Thomas Jefferson, Religious Freedom, and the Jews". To Seek the Peace of the City: Jewish Student Life at U.Va (Online Exhibit). 2001. http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/seek/uva.html. Retrieved 2010-10-04.