death_date children nationality birth_date signature residence education title spouse image employer name occupation resting_place birth_place party relatives parents known_for religion article_title
22 march 1964 none american 10 february 1877 percy jewett burrell signature.svg boston cambridge , ma -lrb- c. 1915 -- 1917 -rrb- , , watertown , ma -lrb- c. 1941 -rrb- ma -lrb- 1877 - ? -rrb- , new england conservatory of music , boston university first -lrb- 1901-1903 -rrb- ; sixth supreme president of phi mu supreme alpha sinfonia fraternity -lrb- 1907 -- 1914 -rrb- ; trustee historian , new england conservatory of music , c. 1915 of phi mu alpha sinfonia fraternity none percy jewett burrell.jpg community service , inc. -lrb- as of 1922 -rrb- percy jewett burrell teacher head of the community service , inc. bureaus of educational of dramatics -lrb- as of 1922 -rrb- oratory , elocution , and drama ; ridgelawn cemetery -lrb- watertown , massachusetts -rrb- boston , massachusetts , u.s. republican no descendants joseph m. & alice b. burrell director of phi mu alpha sinfonia fraternity of civic and historical pageants ; pioneer leader methodist , episcopal -lrb- as of 1922 -rrb- percy jewett burrell

percy jewett burrell

percy jewett burrell -lrb- -- -rrb- 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 . ''
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 . ''
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 .
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 . ''
burrell served as the first supreme historian of phi mu alpha sinfonia fraternity from 1901 to 1903 , and the sixth supreme -lrb- national -rrb- 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 .
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 .
