1940-04-04-sc-p3-piano-contest-harl-lynn-aldrich-roger-mahrt
April 04, 1940 Spokane Daily Chronicle Page 3:
Three Spokane Girls Win Musical Honors
June Foote, Mary Rita Cowell and Sylvia Lou Newton, all of Spokane, won top honors in yesterday’s music festival contests in the Masonic temple. They rated “superior with honors” and thus will be among those to be presented by the festival association in young artist recitals April 14, 21 and 28.
Of the half a hundred contestants, 11 others rated “superior” on the national music educators’ rating sheet. They were: Mary Laudwein, Louise Alger, Kenneth Moore, Patrick Wilson and Joyce Rowan, all of Spokane; Evelyn Gutschmidt and Loyee Squires, Wilbur; Mary Lou Lempesis and Wayne Squires, Metaline; Doris and Betty Lohr, Ione.
The schedule of public contests for tomorrow, with names of contestants:
Morning, piano, Commandery Room—Donna Lou Myers, Elizabeth Halin, Harl Aldrich, Norma Jean Myers, Eleanor Mae Hansen, Margery Weipert, June Wold, Elsie Merle Parker, Roger Mahrt, Shirley Goodrich, Carolyn Norris, Marcia Barnes, Lynn Aldrich, Mary Lou Ford, Beverly Cleator, Dolores Petersen and Richard Thiele.
Morning, Voice, Green Room Betty Munroe, Ruth Van Brunt, Milton Gimbel Jr., Dorothy Johnston, Vincent Davis, Beverly Adams, Mickey Long, Marcia Barnes, Betty Norquist, Norman Smith, Lillian Hansen, Wally Morgareidge.
Afternoon, Piano Ensembles and Concertos, Commandery Room—Duet, Lois Lee, Dolores Espeland; duo, Rosaleen Jackman, June Wold; duo, Roger Mahrt, Margery Weipert; duo, Harl Aldrich, Lynn Aldrich; duo, Gus Hemstead, Lawrence Thompson. (Concertos) — Bernadine Barnes, Suzanne La Follette, Elsie Merle Parker, Gus Hempstead, Shirley Goodrich, Carolyn Norris, Virginia Cutler, Dorothy Wiscombe, Dorothy Roberts Wheatley, Henrietta McElhany.
Afternoon, Voice-Arias and Ensembles, Green Room—William Ecker, Beatrice Barnes, Byron Swanson. (Arias)—Robert MacKinnon, Kathryn Kass, Eleanor Barrow, Margaret Quist and Evelyn Seyforth. (Ensemble groups)— Trio, Beatrice Barnes, Grace Sabin, Winnie Evans; duet, Dolores Espeland, Lois Lee; sextet, Helen Turner, Delores Roeders, Mary Bogle, Jean Goudzward, Barbara Miller, Mary Nell Buck.
