George Graff

Songwriter ("When Irish Eyes Are Smiling"), author and business executive, educated at De Witt Clinton High School. He was a charter member of ASCAP (1914) and his chief musical collaborators included Jesse Deppen, Ernest Ball, Chauncey Olcott, Caro Roma, Annelu Burns, and Arthur Penn. His other popular-song and sacred-music compositions included "As Long as the World Rolls On", "To the End of the World With You", "In the Garden of Tomorrow", "I Love the Name of Mary", "Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold", "Teach Me to Pray", "I Come to Thee", "Mother of Pearl", "Little Man", "Who Else But God", and "For the Sake of Auld Lang Syne".