Robert Guy Mccutchan

Background

Mccutchan, Robert Guy was born on September 13, 1877 in Mount Ayr, Iowa, United States. Son of Erastus G. and Margaret (Edie) Mccutchan.

Education

Student Park College, Parkville, Missouri, 1893-1894. Museum Bac., Simpson College, 1904, Museum Doctor, 1927. D. Sacred Music, Southern Methodist U., 1935.

Doctor of Literature, Southwestern U., 1943. Studied in Berlin and Paris.

Career

1 son, Robert John; married second, Helen L. Cowles, December 11, 1944. With Baker University, 1904-1910, first as teacher of singing then organized Conservatory of Music, of which was director, 1906-1910. Organizer and director Summer School of Music, Mount Lake Park, Maryland., 1912-1913.

Organizer community music activities for Indiana State Council of Defense, 1917-1918. Organizer and director Summer School of Music, Bay View, Michigan, 1919-1927. Director Summer School of Music, Winona Lake, Indiana, 1928-1929.

Dean School of Music, De Pauw University, 1911-1937, dean emeritus since 1937. Lecturer Summer Conference on Church Music, Northwestern, 1938-1939, 41-42, 44-45, University of Montana, 1939. Special lecturer on religious music, Claremont Graduate School, since 1939.

An Earl lecturer Pacific School of Religion, 1942. Southwestern University Foundation lectures, 1943. Director choirs and festival organizations.

Member Commission on Church Music, Mechanical Engineering Church, 1924-1928.

Works

• Other Work

  • Author numerous books since 1937. Latest publication

  • Hymns of the American Frontier, 1950.

Membership

Member Commission on Church Music, Mechanical Engineering Church, 1924-1928. Member Joint Commision on Revision of Methodist Hymnal and Psalter, 1928-1935. Member General Conference on Music, Methodist Episcopal Church since 1937.

Member General Conference Commission (Methodist) on Ritual and Orders of Service, 1940 (educated committee 1942). Member General Conference (Methodist) Ecumenical Commission, 1944, Southern California-Arizona Conference (Methodist) Committee on Graduate School of Religion, University of Southern California, 1940. Member Music Teachers National Association (ex-secretary), Indiana Music Teachers’ Association (ex-president), Hymn Society, American Musicalogical Society, National Association Church Choir Directors (nat. ex-president) Committee on Worship of Federal Council of Churches in America, Phi Mu Alpha, Pi Kappa Lambda (ex-president general).

Mason.; Clubs: University (Claremont).

Connections

Married Carrie Burns Sharp, November 23, 1904 (died July 20, 1941).; married second, Helen L. Cowles, December 11, 1944.

Father:

Erastus G. Mccutchan

Mother:

Margaret (Edie) Mccutchan

Spouse:

Carrie Burns Sharp

Spouse:

Helen L. Cowles