CHILDERS, LULU

CHILDERS, LULU. College professor (28 February 1870 in Dryridge, Kentucky; 6 March 1946 in Howell, Michigan). She was graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (diploma, 1896; B. Mus., 1906) with a major in piano. She served as director of music at Knoxville College in Tennessee for five years (1900-05), then went to Howard University in Washington, D.C., as a music instructor. In 1912 she became a professor of voice and director of the School of Music. Under her...