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Harold W. Friedell
1905 - 1958 Person Name: Harold W. Friedell, 1905-1958 Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8 Composer of "BARBARA" in Hymns for Youth Harold Friedell (May 11, 1905, Jamaica, Queens, NY- February 17, 1958, Hasting-On-Hudson, NY) was an American organist, choirmaster, teacher, and composer. At an early age, he served as organist at First Methodist Episcopal Church (Jamaica, Queens) and studied organ with Clement Gale and David McK. Williams. He later served as organist at Calvary Church (New York), organist and choirmaster at Saint John’s Church (Jersey City, N.J.), organist and choirmaster at Calvary Church (New York), and finally organist and master of the choir at Saint Bartholomew’s Church (New York). Friedell also taught on the faculty of the Union Theological Seminary School of Sacred Music (New York). As a composer, Friedell composed works for organ, orchestra, and choir, as well as hymn tunes, descants, and music for solo voice.
Friedell composed the choral anthem "Draw us in the Spirit's Tether" in 1949, from which the hymn tune "Union Seminary" was taken."
Jimmy Thompson
Harold W. Friedell
Grace Noll Crowell
1877 - 1969 Person Name: Grace N. Crowell, 1877- Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8 Author of "Because I Have Been Given Much" in Hymns for Youth Grace Noll Crowell (October 31, 1877 - March 31, 1969) was an American poet, author of 36 books of inspirational verse and 5,000 poems. Her work has appeared in hundreds of magazines and newspapers.
Crowell was born in Inland Township in Cedar County, Iowa, to Adam and Sarah Noll. She was educated at the German-English college in Wilton, Iowa. Crowell first attempted writing poetry at the age of 8, but in a rare instance of non-support by her otherwise loving family, found her efforts laughed at as an infantile effort. She stated, "I never tried to write after that until love and romance and a home came to me. That quickened and awakened the desire to write poetry again." After earning her Bachelor of Arts in 1901, that love came to her when she married Norman H. Crowell, also a writer. They had three sons; Norman Crowell died in 1953.
With her husband, she moved to Farmington, Minnesota, where he worked as a bank teller and she as a housewife and mother. However, in 1906 she fell gravely ill, and despite receiving the best medical care available at the time, she failed to improve. While resigned to spending life as an invalid, she had no desire to be a burden to her family, and determined to become a writer; her first poem, "The Marshland," was written and published while she was recovering from her illness. It was primarily her long confinement and suffering in various hospitals that led her to write verses of hope, patience, and inspiration; she stated, "The thought kept coming to me, 'I would like to write poetry that will help others who are suffering as I am.'" She continued to write, and many of her works were subsequently published in popular periodicals.
Crowell's health improved following a move to Sioux City, Iowa; the family subsequently migrated to Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1917 and two years later to Dallas, Texas where she spent the rest of her life.
Her first book of poetry "White Fire," which was published in 1925, received first prize from the Texas Poetry Society. In 1936 she was appointed Poet Laureate of Texas, a position she held for three years. She was awarded the Golden Scroll Medal of Honor as National Honor Poet in 1938. That same year she was designated American Mother of the Year by the Golden Rule Foundation, and American Woman, a biographical publication, selected her as one of the ten Outstanding American Women. Baylor University awarded her an honorary doctorate degree in 1940.
She was so popular it was necessary for her husband to quit his job to manage her writing career. Thousands of pieces of correspondence from grateful readers needed to be answered and hundreds of visitors from all parts of the United States and Europe who visited her at her Dallas home needed to be received.
Crowell wrote books of poetry, stories for children, and poem and prose devotions. Lee Mero illustrated several of her children’s books. Her "Songs for Courage" went into twenty-five printings. She continued writing until she was 86 years old. "God's Masterpieces," a devotional book was her last published work before her death.
Crowell died on March 31, 1969, at age 91, and is buried at Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery, in Dallas, Texas.
"Let the Sun Shine In" was published posthumously in 1970. In 1977 a reprint of her 1965 collection of poems appeared as "The Eternal Things: The Best of Grace Noll Crowell."
Although time has relegated her to the status of a minor poet, she was selected by the America Publishers as one of the ten outstanding American Women of 1938, and in the early 1940s she was called "the most popular writer of verse in America."
Her poem, "Because of Thy Great Bounty" is included in the 1985 Hymnbook of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, under the title of "Because I Have Been Given Much", set to music by Philip Landgrave. This hymn was originally set as a choral piece by Landgrave and was later included in the 1975 and 1991 Baptist Hymnals. Landgrave named the tune SEMINARY, in homage to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, where he was a professor for many years.
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Grace Noll Crowell
J. Phillip Landgrave
Person Name: Phillip Landgrave Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8 Composer of "SEMINARY" in Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary
J. Phillip Landgrave
Helen Otte
b. 1931 Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8 Author of "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Helen Ann (Brink) Otte Walter (b. Grand Rapids, MI, 1931) versified this psalm in 1982 for the Psalter Hymnal. She received her education at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has worked as a teacher, proofreader, and librarian. She was a member of the Poets' Workshop that worked with the revision committee to prepare psalm versifications for the 1987 Psalter Hymnal. After her first husband died and she remarried, she remained active as a freelance writer, especially of children's stories and dramas, some of which have been published in Reformed Worship under the name Helen Walter.
Bert Polman
Helen Otte
Ebenezer Prout
1835 - 1909 Person Name: Ebenezer Prout, 1835-1909 Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8 Composer of "WILLERBY" in The Cyber Hymnal
Ebenezer Prout
Elizabeth A. E. Godwin
1817 - 1889 Person Name: Elizabeth A. Godwin, 1817-1889 Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8 Author of "My Savior, 'Mid Life's Varied Scene" in The Cyber Hymnal Godwin, Elizabeth Ayton, née Etheridge, daugher of William Ellis Etheridge, was born at Thorpe Hamlet, Norfolk, July 4, 1817; married in 1849 to Mr. C. Godwin, and died at Stoke Bishop in 1889. She published Songs for the Weary, 1865; and Songs amidst Daily Life. Her hymn in common use is "My Saviour, 'mid life's varied scene" (Lent), written whilst yet a girl, and first printed in the Evangelical Magazine, and then in Songs for the Weary, 1873.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Elizabeth A. E. Godwin
