This black-and-white capture features Kay Kyser talking and gesturing while sitting on the bench. James Kern Kyser, known as Kay Kyser, was an American bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s. Journalist and newspaper editor Vermont C. Royster was his cousin. Kyser graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1928. He was also senior class president and was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity.