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This series is composed of collected sheet music organized by type and including a variety of sheet music. Box 2 holds organ studies and organ anthologies; Box 3 and 4 are entirely organ anthologies; Box 5-7 holds organ sheet music; Box 7-9 holds vocal music; Box 10 includes Christmas Choral Programs as well as religious, secular, and hand-copied music; Box 11 holds correspondence, concert programs, and Christmas music; Boxes 12-17 include a variety of music related to William and Mary, Christmas, The Common Glory, and many others.

This series includes Dr. Fehr's collection of published materials related to areas of personal interest other than music, such as technology topics and a collection of William and Mary student body literature dating from the 1960s and 1970s.

The correspondence series dates from the years of Dr. Fehr's career at William and Mary (1945-1974) as well as his retirement years. Included in the series is William and Mary interdepartmental correspondence, colleague correspondence, correspondence with choral members, parties outside the university community, and other correspondents.

The photographs series visually documents the College of William and Mary choral program from 1945 through 1974, as well as alumni choral events during Dr. Fehr's retirement years. The series documents separately The Common Glory program, the William and Mary choral program by decade, portraits of Dr. Fehr, family and friends (1920s-1980s), and Dr. Fehr's career with the public school system in Austin, Texas. In addition to color and black and white photographs, a small number of color slides and photographic negatives can also be found in this series. Note that each photograph was given an individual number that begins with the letters "FP."

This series includes a collection of reel-to-reel tape recordings of William and Mary Choir/Chorus concert performances conducted by Dr. Fehr between 1947 and 1973. The reel-to-reel tapes were reformatted for access and preservation purposes to data discs and CD Audio discs in 2006-2007. The collection also includes phonograph albums of William and Mary choral performances (1940s-1960s), "The Common Glory" (1957), and a miscellaneous collection of phonograph records, such as recordings for vocal exercises and recordings of All-State and Northrop High School choral performances. The audio recordings were reformatted from their original reel-to-reel audiotape and LP formats and CDs are available for purchase. Contact the Special Collections Research Center (spcoll@wm.edu, 757-221-3090) to request a list of available recordings.

The artifact series includes Dr. Fehr's performance attire, items used to plan stage performances, and humorous props to reinforce Dr. Fehr's disciplinary rules. This series also includes the surviving large plastic bus banner used to identify the Choir on its annual spring tour.

The series contains scrapbooks compiled by choral members documenting their annual activities and special events (1945-1983), as well as a leather-bound compilation of choral member testimonials to Dr. Fehr on his retirement from William and Mary inscribed "To Pappy from his Children."

This series includes concert programs representing Dr. Fehr's directorship of William & Mary's choral program; The Common Glory and The Founders outdoor summer pageants; and the Williamsburg Baptist Church choir. The series includes William & Mary choral programs of the regular academic year, as well as programs for special event and guest performances. In addition to correspondence and other records pertaining to choral media performances, the series also includes an inventory of concert programs tape recorded between 1949 and 1973.

The Choral Program Statements series consists of Dr. Fehr's formal and informal statements of the place of a choral program in a liberal arts college; standards governing choral member selection, appearance, and conduct; and admittance and dismissal procedures, as well as Dr. Fehr's communications on these matters with choral members and others.

This series contains materials on Dr. Fehr's professional management of the choral program, including his directorial and production notes, a concert planning notebook, and his reflections on concert program logistics, as well as a series of blueprints for staging concert performances. The series also contains student applications, auditions, rehearsal schedules, and concert tickets lists for special guests, as well as documents pertaining to choral business matters.