September 3, 1916 – The Des Moines Register announces the marriage of Effie Mae Proffitt – founder of Proffitt’s School of Music in Iowa City.

While called here to Iowa City by the Methodist Church to lead their choirs, Effie Mae Proffitt also opened a music studio in Unity Hall. And, over the next three years (1906-1909), she successfully ran Effie Mae Proffitt’s School of Music, Affiliated – working alongside the faculty of SUI – with classes starting in the fall of 1906. This was the first edition of what would become – in 1909 – the SUI School of Music.

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