David Gray to Give Concert in Pullen Hall for State College Summer School, July 23, 1922

State College Singer to Give Concert Tuesday

David Gray, a member of the teaching staff at State College, will give a song concert in Pullen Hall Tuesday evening before the State College Summer School.

Mr. Gray, whose voice is a dramatic baritone, was formerly a pupil of Arthur E. Westbrook of the Dunbar School of American Opera in Chicago. He will be remembered as one of the soloists of the Kermiss given in Raleigh last winter, and he has also sung in several of the local churches. For some time he has been a pupil of Miss Mildred Rodiger who sang at the Summer School last Friday.

Jack Adams, of the Summer School faculty, who is also organist at the Tabernacle Baptist Church, will be Mr. Gray’s accompanist.

From the Raleigh News & Observer, July 23, 1922. I was unfamiliar with the word ‘kermiss’ so I looked it up. A kermis (single ‘s’) is a fair or carnival, especially one to help raise money for a charity. It’s also a summer fair held in towns or villages in the Netherlands.