GEORGE, ZELMA WATSON
(*1903)> SOCIOLOGIST/OPERA SINGER
GEORGE, ZELMA WATSON. Sociologist/Opera singer (8 December 1903 in Hearne, Texas). Although best known as a sociologist, she was active as a musician in her early career. She obtained her musical education at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, Illinois (1925-27), where she studied voice, and at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois (1924-26), where she studied organ. In 1949 she sang the title role of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Medium at Karamu House in Cleveland, Ohio…