Alice Vassar LaCour

LaCour was a Fisk Jubilee Singer, touring with the company from 1890 to 1891.^[4][5] For many years afterward, she was featured on concert programs and conducted choruses at festivals.^[6]

LaCour and her husband taught at American Missionary Association (AMA) schools in Jonesborough, Tennessee, Augusta, Georgia, and in Chapel Hill and Lawndale, North Carolina.^[3][7] She was principal of the AMA school in Springfield, Tennessee.^[8]

Alice Vassar married fellow educator and Fisk Jubilee singer Paul Louis LaCour in 1893, in Nashville. Their wedding was attended by much of the faculty of Fisk University. The university's president, Erastus Milo Cravath, performed the ceremony.^[9] The LaCours had daughters Lucile, Marion, and Gretchen.^[1][10] Alice Vassar LaCour died in 1924.^[11]

LaCour was a character in Arise and Build (2016), a musical play about the history of Trinity School, performed for the school's 150th anniversary.^[12]