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Stauffer, Ruth Weybright |
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Stauffer taught music at Blue Ridge College from 1922-1927. She taught organ and piano at Bridgewater College (Bridgewater, Va.) from 1927-1979, for fifty-two years. She also played at Bridgewater College services for the Bridgewater Church of the Brethren, the Brethren Annual Conference, civic clubs and with many traveling musical groups. She was especially noted as an accompanist of Bridgewater College's Professor Nelson Huffman. Stauffer was a native of Maryland. She graduated from Blue Ridge College in 1921 with a diploma in piano. She earned a Bachelor of Music in 1933 from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Her education also included private studies under accomplished organists as well as work at Peabody Conservatory and Johns Hopkins University. Stauffer, long known affectionately as "Miss Weybright" was married to the Rev. Edgar Stauffer in 1955. She was the step-mother of two daughters. She died on Christmas Day in 1988. A 1968 Church of the Brethren Annual Conference citation of Ruth Webright Stauffer's work notes, "During her…years of music teaching, Mrs. Stafuffer has taught hundreds of students in such subjects as music theory, sight singing, dictation, appreciation, piano, and organ. Her organ students alone number over 400-many of whom became church organists, and some, college teachers." |
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Musician |
Spouse |
Stauffer, Edgar |
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Bridgewater College Music Department photographs and records, circa 1930 - 2012 - 21.11.001
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