Sara Holroyd Collection

Biography/History

Sara Holroyd , from Selma, Alabama, came to Peabody to study music.  While a student at George Peabody College for Teachers she was awarded many honors and was elected President of the Student Body and “Miss Peabody” in her senior year. She was a member of the college choir, orchestra, and band, and sang with the Peabody Madrigalians. She graduated in 1946. In 1951 she received a M.A. from Columbia, and afterwards she had a career in education as a Professor of Music at the University of Kentucky at Lexington.

Sara Holroyd still lives in Lexington, Kentucky, and her interview for the Vandy Goes to War World War II Remembered Oral History Project is included in that important archive of Vanderbilt’s history.

Scope and Contents

This small collection (0.42 linear feet ) contains letters, programs, and newspaper clippings collected by Sara Holroyd, a 1946 graduate of George Peabody College for Teachers.  (Peabody merged Vanderbilt University in 1979.). Ms. Holroyd was a student leader and a musician while at Peabody, and many of the programs feature her as a student musician. This collection also chronicles the end of WWII and activities at Peabody College during that time.

File Listing

Correspondence

1. Outgoing—Sara Holroyd to her mother on the end of WWII, Aug. 15, 1945; on election to “Miss Peabody” May 23, 1946
2. Incoming—Evelyn Stephenson with accompanying news article “The Four Melodears”  Jan. 16, 1984

Personal and Biographical

1. As Officer and President of the Peabody Student Body—newspaper clippings
2. Sara Holroyd, musician, including the script for the Gay Nineties Revue and newspaper clippings
3. Sara Holroyd “Miss Peabody” June 1946—newspaper clippings        
4. Sara Holroyd “Miss Peabody” June 1946—newspaper clippings
5. Honors and awards
6. Peabody graduation awards and honors for Sara Holroyd—newspaper clippings
7. Graduation from Peabody, including official invitation
8. Graduation from Peabody—Prom cards and other items
9. Graduation from Peabody—letters and telegrams
10. Peabody Band—newspaper clippings
11. Peabody College friends, teachers, and events—newspaper clippings
12. Peabody College—newspaper clippings
13. Certificate—Mary Mildred Sullivan Scholarship, March 19, 1945
14. Certificate—Sigma Alpha Iota—May 10, 1947

Programs

1. George Peabody College--Graduation—June 7, 1946; august 23, 1946; June 6, 1947
2. George Peabody College—featuring Sara Holroyd—Dec. 12, 1943—Aug. 19, 1946
3. George Peabody College—Christmas/Messiah –Dec. 11, 1943—Dec. 11, 1945
4. George Peabody College—Graduate, Faculty, and other recitals—Dec. 6, 1943—August 6, 1946
5. George Peabody College—Student Recitals—Dec.9, 1943—July 31, 1946
6. George Peabody College—Music and Dance—June 6, 1944—June 5, 1947
7. George Peabody College—Peabody Choir and Madrigalians—April 23, 1945
8. George Peabody College—Chamber Music—March 31, 1944—July 29, 1946
9. George Peabody College—College Band—Nov. 21, 1944—July 2, 1946
10. George Peabody College—Miscellaneous—Feb. 18, 1944—Aug. 18, 1946
11. George Peabody College—Bulletin—Division of Music, 1944-1945; 1945-1947; Music at Peabody Oct., 1944
12. George Peabody College—Bulletin—Division of Music, 1947-1949; 1949-1951
13. Fisk University—Festival of Music and Fine Arts, Sara Holroyd, trumpet—April 19-22, 1944
14. Peabody Demonstration School—May 5, 1944--May 24, 1946
15. Ryman Auditorium—V.E. Day First Anniversary, May 8, 1946

Miscellaneous

1. Peabody Reflector, June 1945—Alumni and Student News
2. Peabody Reflector—Miscellaneous Articles
3. Peabody Reflector—Miscellaneous Articles
4. Peabody Reflector—Miscellaneous Articles

Photographs

1. Sara Holroyd “Miss Peabody” and with other Peabody musicians

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