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lessons in voice and piano at Western University in Quindaro,Kansas, for a short time. Later that year Boatner sang for thefamous tenor Roland Hayes, who encouraged the young baritone tocontinue his vocal studies in Boston. Boatner followed Hayes'advice, and moved to Boston in 1917. In 1925, Boatner moved toChicago, in order to complete his formal education. He earnedhis Bachelor's degree in music from the Chicago College of Musicin 1932. During his student years in Chicago, Boatner directedthe choirs at Olivet Baptist Church, and concertized widely as asinger. His reputation grew during the years 1925-1933, when hewas director of music for the National Baptist Convention. In1933, Boatner was appointed director of music at Samuel HustonCollege in Austin, Texas. He later taught at the Wiley Collegein Marshall, Texas, where he was appointed Dean of Music. Duringthe late 1930s, he settled permanently in New York City, where heopened the Edward Boatner Studio.Biographical sketch for the Edward Boatner papersBorn in eastern Ukraine, Vsevolod Holubnychy fled with his familyto Bavaria in 1943 to escape the Red Army. In 1951, he moved toNew York City where he attended Columbia University. He wasprofessor at the City University of New York from 1962 until hisdeath.Biographical sketch for the Vsevolod Holubnychy fondsThe Cameron family of Orange and Durham counties and Raleigh,N.C., was among antebellum North Carolina's largest landholdersand slave holders; the Camerons also owned substantialplantations in Alabama and Mississippi.Biographical sketch for the Cameron family papersAntonina Hansell Looker (1898-1987) was an author, teacher, andpsychiatric worker of Atlanta and Lakemont, Rabun County, Ga.,and New York City.Biographical sketch for the Antonina Hansell Looker papersEducation2.7.17. Record information about the formal education of persons, including members offamilies whose education is important to an understanding of their life.With the outbreak of World War II, the Yasutake family, togetherwith all other ethnic Japanese residing in Washington, Oregon,and California, was removed to an internment camp. The familywas sent to the Minidoka Relocation Center in Hunt, Idaho. Thisinternment made a deep impression on Yamada that informed much ofher later literary and political career. After the war, shecompleted a B.A. at New York University (1947) and an M.A. at theUniversity of Chicago (1953), both in English literature.Biographical sketch for the Mitsuye Yamada papersFloyd B. McKissick (1922-1991), the son of Ernest Boyce andMagnolia Thompson McKissick, was born in Asheville, N.C., on 9March 1922. He earned his undergraduate and law degrees fromNorth Carolina Central University. During the course of hiseducational pursuits, he became the first African American man to42DESCR IB IN G ARCH IVE S: A CON TENT STAND ARD