DeFotis may be best known for her many years as the Associate Conductor of the Holden Choirs at Harvard University, where she travelled on many world tours with the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum.
He graduated from Harvard in 1908 with his younger brother, Ray D. Murphy (1887–1964) (future chairman of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States 19xx-1952), where they were both in the Harvard Glee Club, Harvard Quartet and the Pi Eta Society.
A native of Colorado Springs, Colorado and a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in comparative religion, Harlan first came to Japan on a tour with the Harvard Glee Club in 1993.
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