Carol June Bradley
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Carol June Bradley | |
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 Carol June Bradley, from a 1959 newspaper | |
| Born | August 12, 1934 Huntingdon, Pennsylvania |
| Died | July 27, 2009 Buffalo, New York |
| Occupation | Music librarian |
Carol June Bradley (August 12, 1934 – July 27, 2009) was an American music librarian.
Bradley was born in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, the daughter of George Albert Bradley and Alice Bolinger Bradley.[1] Her father was a math teacher[2] and her mother was a teacher and school principal.[3]
Bradley graduated from Carlisle High School in 1952.[4][5] She majored in music education at Lebanon Valley College, where she earned an undergraduate degree in 1956.[6] She trained as a librarian at Western Reserve University,[7] where she wrote her 1957 master's thesis on the history of Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Later in her career, she completed doctoral studies in library science at Florida State University, with a 1978 dissertation titled The Genesis of American Music Librarianship: 1902-1942.[8]
She studied violin, working with Mischa Mishakoff, and played with the Cleveland Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra during college.[4]
