The first Glee Club ever formed at Wake Forest, in 1903. Among the number who are still alive are: First
row, S. Wait Baglcy, Greensboro business man; third in row, Dr. Hubert M. Poteat, Wake Forest professor
who for 13 years was director of the club; fifth, T. W. Brewer, Raleigh merchant; sixth, Dr. Bruce Powers,
Raleigh physician.
Second row: first, 0. W. King, medical director of a large New York life insurance firm; second, Charles P.
Weaver, who wrote “Here’s to Wake Forest”; fourth, G. W. Coggin, Raleigh man who is connected with the
State Department of Vocational Education.
Third row: first, W. H. Weatherspoon, Raleigh lawyer; third, Charles A. Leonard, Baptist missionary to
China; fourth, D. H. Bland, Goldsboro lawyer; fifth, Gaston S. Foote, Portsmouth, Va., broker; sixth, Leslie
Davis, Beaufort attorney.
“Sing of Wake Forest”
The Wake Forest songsters have made
more than seventy tours over North Caro¬
lina. and this year's glee club is one of the
best that the college ever has had.
Til
К
story of the Wake Forest
College Glee Club is a story of
North Carolina.
For since the founding of the club
buck in 1903, it has made over seventy
extended tours throughout North
Carolina, singing in almost every
town of two thousand or more popu¬
lation.
Recently the 19-11 club left for
a western spring trip. Thirty-one of
the 38 meml>crs are North Caro¬
linians. These North Carolina hoys
can sing!
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By NEIL MORGAN
One of the first concerts ever given
by the Wake Forest singers was at
Greenville in 1904. Dr. Hubert M.
Poteat was student leader then. Local
promoters had arranged for the club
to perform in a shackly hall above a
livery stable — the only room in town
large enough. One coal stove in a
corner of the room made little impres¬
sion against the cold blast rushing in
between cracks in the windows and
doors. However, even the air couldn’t
blow away the stench that rose from
below; the howling of the wind
couldn’t drown out the sound of
horses that awoke from nightmares
with vociferous neighings during the
most gentle bars of the music. Most of
the club were shivering in overcoats
during that performance; one of the
few in which the singers have ever de¬
parted from formal dress.
Even during these early years of
