Malcolm Woodson Gannaway (born October 3, 1889 in Sandidges, Virginia; died May 14, 1967 in Little Rock, Arkansas)[1] was the president of the Virginia Glee Club during the 1910-1911 season and the 1915-1916 season.
Gannaway was a member of Phi Delta Theta and the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, and graduated from the University in 1911 with a B.A., where he sang a solo during the baccalaureate ceremony.[2] He won the Rumrill Graduate Scholarship to Harvard[3] and subsequently received an M.A. from Harvard in 1912. He returned to the University of Virginia as a summer session instructor, teaching mathematics at the University of Virginia Summer Session during the 1912, 1913, and 1914 sessions, teaching English at Woodberry Forest during the year in 1912-1913.[4] He subsequently returned to the University and obtained a law degree.
During the 1915-1916 season he returned to the re-forming Glee Club, serving as President.
References
- ↑ "Ancestry.com". http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/8995245/person/444947953/facts. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
- ↑ "Finals Week, July 11-14, 1911". Alumni Bulletin IV (5): 1. October 1911. http://books.google.com/books?id=q8BKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA28&dq=malcolm+gannaway&lr=&cd=25#v=onepage&q=malcolm%20gannaway&f=false.
- ↑ "Alumni Notes". Alumni Bulletin IV (3): 317. July 1911. http://books.google.com/books?id=PvccAQAAIAAJ&dq=malcolm%20gannaway&lr&pg=PA317#v=onepage&q=malcolm%20gannaway&f=false.
- ↑ "Extension Work". Madison Hall Notes X (16): 1. 1915-01-16. http://books.google.com/books?id=RoM9AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22university%20of%20virginia%22%20%22glee%20club%22&pg=PT49#v=onepage&q=%22university%20of%20virginia%22%20%22glee%20club%22&f=false.