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Percy Jewett Burrell ( – ) was an American author and director of historical and civic pageants. Known for his skills in oratory and elocution, he also taught public speaking and drama, and was known as a "public reciter."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Traveling Culture )〕 A native and lifelong resident of the greater Boston area, he was described by ''Time'' magazine as a "professional director of civic and patriotic shows."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Religion: Drama of Missions - TIME )〕 By the mid-1920s, Burrell had developed a nationwide reputation for his work, having had 75,000 participants in his productions, which had collectively been performed in front of over 900,000 people.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Lancaster Historical Pageants )〕 According to a printed program used at a service in his memory, "His mastery of the spoken and written word led him to be a well known public speaker with an enviable reputation as a teacher of oratory, and later as an author and director of national distinction."〔Program for Memorial Service, October 2, 2004.〕 Burrell served as the first supreme historian of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity from 1901 to 1903, and the sixth supreme (national) president of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity from 1907 to 1914, and along with fraternity founder Ossian E. Mills has been credited by fraternity historians with encouraging the early expansion of and formulating the basic ideals espoused by the fraternity. Much of this fundamental philosophy is encapsulated in his presidential messages expounding the fraternity's Object, which appeared in the ''Sinfonia Yearbooks'' between 1908 and 1910.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia - Writings )〕 Today, these writings are regularly used to instruct the fraternity's probationary members about the fraternity's Object, and the obligations and expectations of fraternity membership. ==Early life and education== Born to Joseph and Alice Burrell of the Beacon Hill area of Boston on February 10, 1877, Percy Burrell attended the Phillips Grammar School in Boston, from which he graduated in 1891, and the English High School of Boston, from which he graduated in 1894. He studied oratory at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, graduating with a Diploma in Elocution in 1896. He later received the post-graduate degree of Bachelor of Oratory (B.O.) from Boston University, where he later took coursework in Methodist theology,〔 and was initiated into Boston University's chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Burrell maintained a connection to the New England Conservatory for many years. He was called upon to serve as commencement speaker at the Conservatory in 1908, and was published several times in the ''New England Conservatory Quarterly''. His writings at that time advocated the teaching of oratory in the public schools.〔http://www.sinfonia.org/Resources/writings/Burrell/BurrellAdditional/Burrell11-00-1908.pdf〕 In 1897, he had published a sixteen-page work entitled ''Oratory in the Public Schools''. As of 1910, Burrell was serving as a trustee of the conservatory.〔''The Directory of Directors in the City of Boston and Vicinity'', p. 67.〕 As of 1951, Burrell was serving as an associate editor of ''Alumni Opus'', a publication of the New England Conservatory Alumni Association.〔https://www.consortiumlibrary.org/archives/CollectionsInv/STtoUSArmy/Talleybbgdbflst.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Percy Jewett Burrell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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