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UNI Campanile Chimers and Carilloneurs
This page consists of two lists. First, there is a list of faculty, students, and staff who have played the chimes and later the carillon on a more or less regular and assigned basis. This list was gleaned from Campanile log books, student newspapers, and other campus publications. It is only a partial list, due to gaps in records. There is a certain amount of chronological ambiguity to some of the entries. If this list includes a player and a date, then there is documentary evidence that he or she played sometime during the stated period. But he or she may well have played at other times as well. There is also some unevenness to the entries. Some players performed long concerts on a regular basis; others played only short selections now and then.
The second list consists of a selection of special Campanile concerts and performances that have occurred over the years. Certainly, other significant concerts have taken place, but this list includes many of the highlights.
Chimers and Carilloneurs
- Fall 1926: Irving Wolfe, Luther Richman
- Spring 1927: Pauline Johnson
- Fall 1927-Spring 1928: Doris L. Anderson, Norma Chase
- Summer 1928: Frank Swain, Edna Wolfe
- Fall 1928 -Summer 1929: Frank Swain, Gladys Arns
- Fall 1929: Harry M. Kauffman
- Fall 1929-Summer 1931: Myrtle Kleist
- Fall 1929-Fall 1933: Lois Roush
- Summer 1931: Gretchen Rausenberger
- Fall 1933-Summer 1934: Ralph Moritz
- Spring 1934-Winter 1935: Fred Feldman
- Winter 1935-Summer 1936: Dorothy Oelrich
- Summer 1935; Summer 1936: Lois Bragonier
- Summer 1935: Marjorie Palmquist, Fred Feldman
- Summer 1936: Harriet Todd
- Fall 1936: Fred Feldman, Ralph Moritz
- Fall 1936-Spring 1938: James Dycus
- Summer 1938: J. Wesley Pritchard, C. Campbell, Floyd Johnson
- Summer 1940-Spring 1941: Myron Messerschmitt
- Spring 1941: Warren Smith
- Summer 1941-Spring 1942: William Jochumsen
- Fall 1942: Russell Calkins
- Winter 1942-Spring 1943: Norman Paul Dearborn
- Spring 1943: Rupert Pipho, Joan Doon, Lester Bundy
- Summer 1943: Russell Calkins, Owen Norman
- Fall 1943-Spring 1945: Val Jeanne Fairlie
- Summer 1945-Spring 1947: Lucile J. Craig
- Summer 1947-1951: Unknown
- Summer 1953-Spring 1955: Laurens Arthur Blankers
- Summer 1958-1960: Don Peterson
- Winter 1962-1963: Keith Haan
- 1964-1965: Leroy James LeFebvre
- 1969: Jerry Smithey, Robert Lodine
- 2005-2006 Kui-Im Lee, Trevis Young, Jung-Min Lee, Mary McDonald, Kimberly Cordray
Special Performers and Concerts
- September 19, 1926--first concert on Campanile chimes, given by Andrew Menelley, president of the Meneeley Bell Company at the Campanile Dedication Ceremony
- October 19, 1968--concert by Wendell Wescott, Carollinneur at Michigan State University, to dedicate the renovations and additions to the set of bells
- November 26, 1968--impromptu concert by Milford Myhre, Carollinneur of Bok Singing Tower at Lake Wells, Florida
- May 9, 1971--concert by Robert Lodine, Carrollinneur at St. Chrysostom's Church, Chicago, Illinois
- September 21, 1971--concert by Albert Meyer, Carollinneur at Emery Merial carillon, Mariemont, Ohio
- September 23, 1973--concert by Richard H. von Grabow, Carrollinneur at the Iowa State University campanile in Ames, Iowa
- December 3, 1974--first time the Campanile was used to accompany the UNI Glee Club--carillon played by Jeff Stearns of Rockwell City, Iowa, and Terry Kroese of Sheldon, Iowa
- October 12, 1975--concert by Richard H. von Grabow, Carilloneur of the Iowa State University campanile in Ames, Iowa, and UNI Carrollinneur Robert Byrnes
- June 24, 1976--concert by Leen't Hart, Director of Carillon School in Amersfoort, Netherlands
- May 8, 1977--UNI Carilloneur Robert Byrnes performs his master's degree recital
- June 23-24, 1980--five formal concerts by visiting carilloneurs during the Congress of the Guild of Carilloneurs in North America, held at UNI
- September 7, 1985--concert by Robin Austin, carilloneur at Grace Episcopal Church in Plainfield, New Jersey
- September 13, 1986--concert by Frank Dellapenna, carilloneur at the Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
- October 24, 1992--Karel Keldermans and Robert Byrnes presented a Dueling Bells concert
- October 8, 9, 2004--Karel Keldermans performs for Homecoming activities
- April 27, 28, 2006--Karel Keldermans and organ students perform recitals
- September 18, 2006--Karel Keldermans performs for the eightieth anniversary of the Campanile
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Last modified: January 8, 2007 (GP)