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PAST WINNERS OF NSAL AWARDS

Chapter Winners, by Year

 

Year Award Artistic Discipline Placement Name
         

2006

Mary Rich Peery Fife Memorial Award

Dance

Winner

John Mark Giragosian

 

 

 

Promising Young Artist

 

Tracy Dillworth

 

Winston Scholarship Program

Voice

Winners

Sherry Benedek, Shelly Jackson, Paulena Papagiamis

 

2006

The Mary Rich Peery Fife Memorial Award
Competition in Dance -

Winner:  John Mark Giragosian

Promising Young Artist:  Tracy Dillworth

Winston Scholarship Program:

Vocal Winners:  Sherry Benedek, Shelly Jackson, Paulena Papagiamis

 

 

2005

The Mollie Davis Nicholson Memorial Award Fund Competition

National Career Award in Acting for Comedy

Winner:  Kristy Powers

Promising Young Artist:  Arthur Allen

 

 

2004

National Career Award in Musical Theatre

 

2003

National Career Award in Poetry: Constance Caraway Erskine Award Winner was Evan Weaver

YEar?

Paul Jacobs  Paul won the $4000 Organ Competition funded from Bonita Crowe Wagner Music Legacy and the Katherine Nordell Lloyd Music Award Fund

2002

Winner of Mildred B. Frame Memorial Award $4000 May 2002Christopher Atzinger, winner of $4000 award; Joseph Satava, winner of $2000 promising artist award

Christopher George Atzinger was the winner of the National Society of Arts and Letters, Washington Chapter 2002 piano competition.

 

2001  Art: Small Sculpture Colleen Kelsey, First Place Award winner; winning piece "Sister Two";  Pamela Soldwedel, sculptor;  Stanley Mathurin, Honorable Mention; Haegeen Kim, Promising Young Artist Award winner.
 

2000

Marceil Greenhalgh Bishop Music Award Fund

National Career Award in Piano Competition:

Winner: Jennifer I. Yeo
Promising Young Artist:
Marilyn Neeley

 

winner of
The Frank and Hilda W. Reinhart Memorial Award
May 2000
NON-FICTION: THE FEATURE ARTICLE
$3,000 Award

Winners of the competition are Joshua Kimerling  as the winner of the and  promising artist award from the Frank and Hilda W. Reinhart Memorial Fund to Jennifer Smith

Joshua Kimerling   Winner May 2000 Feature Writing Competition

 

Fife Award in Ballet: Elizabeth Anne Terschuur, Promising Artist award winner $1,500; Allison Marie Walsh, recognition award no money; ; Joie Jennings Meffert, winner

1999

Ty Alan Emerson winner of the Eleanor Searle McCollum Donor Award Competition in Original Composition for One Voice, Accompanied 1999

1998

Creative Writing

Andrea Jeyaveeran 1998 Career Award in Creative Writing, The National Society of Arts and Letters,

Stephen Battista Winner of promising artist award
 

1997

Jeremiah Johnson * Visual Artist Promising Artist Award 1997 in Printmaking

Jennifer Ann Schmidt winner???  Printmaker

1996

1995

Jennifer Tarrazi Scully, Modern Dance Career Award Competition in 1995. The funding came from the Charlotte Hamilton Ferris Award

1994

Noel True   Winner Acting    Mollie Davis Nicholson Memorial Award, Washington Chapter Competition 1994

1993

Donna C Lettow   Television Script-writer and author Winner of Frank W. Reinhart Memorial Fund Award in 1993

Aaron Glenn Wuerkerwon the Promising Artist Award from Washington Chapter in 1993

1992

Clancy Newman, Cellist
Winner Bonita Crowe Wagner Music Legacy Award 1992

Beth Vanderborgh, Music: Cello, Second Place; Constance Caraway Erskine Donor Award

Joseph J. Fay, Winner;  Art: Architecture - Historic Preservation

Martha Tuzson Stockton, Second place, Art: Architecture - Historic Preservation

James Laffey, honorable mention, Art: Architecture - Historic Preservation

1991

Jennifer Post Winner 1991
$4000 Eleanor Searle McCollum Voice Fund Award

1990

1989

Christopher Harding, piano
Winner 1989 Washington Chapter, NSAL 
$1000 Marceil Greenhagh Bishop Memorial Award

Awadagin Pratt winner of the 1989 $3000 Constance Caraway Erskine Award, renewed $500 in 1990 to make a CD.

1988

1987

1986

1985

Constance Caraway Erskine Donor Award in Ballet:  Julie Cox Kent

1984

1983

1982

1981

1980

Amanda McKerrow won the scholarship donor award from the Washington Chapter in 1980 and won the second place $3500 in the National Society of Arts and Letters, National competition that year.

Enid A. Adams Textile Design  Winner of Textile Design Cleome Wadsworth Donor Award in 1980 with renewals in 1981 and 1982

1979

1976

Arthur Hanket  Winner of $1500 award in Acting 1976

1978

1973

Alice M Plaster Winner of the drawing competition for the Washington Chapter 1973

Elizabeth Ayres  Winner of Poetry competition 1973

1972

John S. Aler, III  Voice Winner 1972

Carmen Balthrop (former NSAL, Washington Chapter scholarship winner in 1972), Voice

1970

Suzanne Longley  Suzanne won the Ballet competition from The National Society of Arts and Letters, Washington Chapter, in 1970 and represented our Chapter in the National Competition winning the Second Award.

1966

Jessye Norman , winner in voice, has become an International singing star since her award in 1966.

1964

Carl Banner   winner of the 1964 Donor Scholarship Mrs Charles K. Holmes in piano, renewed in 1965.

1985                  Julie COX Kent

                          Jennifer HANNA

1984                  Ralph BLACK

                          Jeffrey MOSHER

                          Shannon RYE

                          Pamela WEINSTEIN Sherman

                          Carl TANNER

1983                  Michelle HIGGINS

                          Martha Lynne JOHNSON

                          John Dunn SMITH, Jr.

1982                  Winona ABAYOMI‑COLE

                          Elizabeth A. BENJAMIN

                          Mark B. DENDY

                          Eric HIMY

                          Joanne MANLEY

                          Neil RUTMAN

                          Dennis Clay WARNICK

                          Craig Paul WROE

1981                  John ALSPAUGH

                          Timothy C.KIRK

                          Roger SAYLOR

1980                  Enid ADAMS

                          Rita CALLOWAY

                          Susan FORSTER

                          John MARDIROSIAN

                          Amanda E. McKERROW

                          Thaila MOORE

                          Carole TILSON

1979                  K. BRAKE Alcover

                          Kimberly FITZWATER

                          Deborah HALE Perry D

                          Shipley LUCAS

                          Mary N. OSBORN

                          Nelson PADGETT

                          Deborah HALE Perry

                          Anita SCHIPPER

                          Karel Lynn SIEGLER

                          Gregory Bryant SIMIONE

1978                  David BERGMAN

                          Anne L. BLACKFORD

                          Robert H. BROPHY, III

                          Scott C. CAIRNS

                          Susan Dawn FRYE

                          William T. GORSKI

                          Janet ALEXANDER Griffin L‑

                          Anne E. IMBRIE

                          Gregory JEROZAL

                          David LOW

                          Richard ROLLS

                          Mark B. SPANO

                          Ruth Harrison THOMAS, PhD

                          Kathleen TRAHAN

                          Gary TROSCLAIR

1977                  Cynthia HEMELT Gallagher

                          Ellen LANG

                          Adelle NICHOLSON

                          William WALKER

1976                  Nicholas Alloca, H.M. L

                          Frederick W. BAHR

                          Courtney J. CONNER

                          Eugene GAUB

                          Kathleen GRENNON

                          Arthur A. HANKET

                          Joy E. HINTZ

                          Cheryl A. KOEHLER

                          David MERRICK

                          Lois E. NESBITT

                          Thomas A. O’CALLAGHAN, Jr.

                          Robert J. OSBORNE

                          Marilyn METZ Pfisterer

                          Vincent R. RICE

                          Roberta RUST

                          Carol D. SMITH

1975                  Robert P. CLARKE

                          Lynn COTE–Ryan

                          Hildred HUGHES Crill

                          Constance D‘AUVIN

                          Elan GARONZIK

                          Harry HUFF

                          Jay Paul KRUSH

                          Stephen LANO

                          Gail BRUCE McIntosh

                          Frances Thompson McKAY

                          Patricia MILLER

                          Douglas A. MURPHY

                          Marc O’CARROLL

                          Mark B. SMITH

                          Gary SPRADLING

                          Charles Boyd TOMPKINS

                          Richard Andrew ULLMAN

1974                  Michael KASPER

                          William J. MAIDEN

                          Sherry SKINKER

                          Annette STANLEY

                          Stephen P. WALDER

1973                  AYRES/Novitiate

                          Deborah E. HOOD

                          Victoria NOYES

                          Alice M. PLASTER

                          Dr. Robert PORTNEY

                          Kathleen M. VAN HOO EN

                          Robert WICKLESS

                          Christine WRIGHT

1972                  John ALER III

                          Carmen BALTHROP

                          Sandy BOONE

                          Natalie TRABOLD Grand

                          Charles F. LARSEN

                          M. Cathy PAINE

                          Gwen L. PEMBERTON

                          Toni SMITH

                          Donna Marie SWAJESKI

                          Thomas Glover WHITE

1971                  Jody CRANE

                          Angelina DAHMER

                          Daven JENKINS

                          Carole S. LEBBIN

                          Nyta ROBINSON Sewall

                          Jerome WRIGHT

1970                  Karen J. DAVIS

                          Suzanne (Harper) LONGLEY

                          Edward M. NEWMAN

                          Sylvia CROY O’Sullivan

1969                  Pamela D. MacFARLAND

                          Dianne Young SUMMERFIELD

                          Tad H. WANVEER

1968                  Joseph Lyons GUNNELS

                          David KUPELIAN

                          Joseph ROSS, Jr.

1967                  Frank CONLON

                          William F. RYAN

                          Marianna TCHERKASSKY

1966                  Laura CAMPBELL

                          Diana COATES

                          Jessye NORMAN

1965                  Andrew CAGAN

                          Dawn Didawick GROENER

                          Loran Dean STEPHENSON

1964                  Carl BANNER

                          Mary Jane SEARLE Frisa

1963                  William James CASSEDY

                          Donald DRAISNER

                          Pamela TAYLOR Foy

                          Susan HOLLOWAY

                          S. HOLLOWAY Loden

                          Marilou RICKERT

                          "Con Roche" ROACH

                          Russell SAMS

                          Barbara SAMSON

                          Kay Ewers SCHULTZ

                          John THOMAS

1962                  Dr. Linda Min‑Fu CHEN‑TSAN

                          Mrs. L. Gearhart FONTAINE

                          Leslee Dean Gearhart D

                          Ruth MINTZ

                          Joan WEINER

                          Edmund H. WORTHY, Jr.

1961                  Jonathan ABRAMOWITZ

                          Susan BEETON

                          Velma BERARDUCCI

                          Nancy Hall CHUMACHENKO

                          Anne Katherine GARTRELL

                          David SEIBERT

                          Donna Todd SHEA

1960                  Therman BAILEY

                          Marcia Beth LERNER

                          Hope Haley MONTONI 

                          Doris WOOD Murphy

                          Mimi PAUL Volberg

                          Mrs. Barry J. BINGHAM Yatman

1959                  Ellen Adair ARDERY

                          David BRADSHAW

                          Barbara LIVSHIN Zavapky

1958                  Martha GREENSHIELDS Grant

                          Marianna G. KOSKOURAS

                          Paula M. McKAY Lee

                          Paula M. (Lee) McKAY

1957                  George FORTUNE

                          Elina Rose MOONEY dance

                          Fay Anderson SNOW

                          Michal E. STOTLER

1956                  Patricia CHRISTINE

                          Carol HOPPE

                          Louise LE BOURHIS

                          Barbara LEMMON

                          Bessie Louise LEVIN

                          Thomas LOCKER

                          Ildiko PULVERI McDonnell

                          Margaret FORD Pickett

                          Frances D. RAU

                          Alice REMLER

1955                  Barbara CHESNEY Schmir

1954                  Alan Eugene KIDWELL

                          Yvette SIMONEAU

1953                  Mary Jane ALLISON

                          B. Wilkes BLOMGREN

                          Rai Aubrey BUCHAN

                          Constance CAMPBELL

                          Robert L. (Gino) CONFORTI 

                          John Wingfield JACKSON, Jr

                          Jane KNIGHT harp

                          Dolores Medlock

                          Jack P. MALONE

                          Nancy Chick McDONALD

                          Raymond D. McGUIRE

                          Delores MEDLOCK

                          Howard W. MEHRING

                          Zara Anatole SCHNEIDEROV

1952                  Karen Kruse ANDERSON

                          David BREWSTER

                          Mary DETWILER Scheltema

                          Nancy Baldwin DUNCAN

                          Anthony LANDREAU

                          M. J. KEMP Manley

                          Mary Jane KEMP Manly III

                          Dr. Allan T. MARSH

                          Jack S. REEDER

                          Sally E. O’Connor SCHMERTZ

                          Martha Virginia SHREVE

1951                  Joseph BIERBERSTEIN

                          M. Jean BRADY

                          Irene BETTIUS Crippen

                          Frank CSONKA

                          William DELORME

                          William H. GRAHAM

                          Richard G. HUFFMAN

                          Mary Elizabeth KOELB

                          Sandra SIMS Levine

                          Linda Weisbrod McNAUGHTON

                          William Frank McNAUGHTON

                          Leroy NISKANEN

                          Judy POTTER

                          John Michael WALLS

                          Robert W. WILSON

1950                  Bill GILBERT

                          Joy Newport JEPSON

                          Diana Shane LAMBERT

                          Lorraine MITCHELL Lutz

                          Agnes L. MACEK

                          Shirley MacLAINE

                          "Seth Samuel" RIGGS

                          Diana SHANE

                          Marie S.WALKER

                          Shirley W. WINSTON

                          Frank WRIGHT

1949                  Hugh Gordon Davis

                          Hugh Gordon DAVIS

                          William Wayne FRASER

                          Hilda HENDERSON

                          Harriet V. HULFISH

                          Betty Jean MASON

                          Flora MATTIOLI

                          Christine MAYER

                          Joanna NICKAS 

                          Joan DEDMON Smith

                          Dominic J. SPADARO

                          Charles THRASH, Jr.

                          Ralph Waldo WALKER

1948                  Lois ELLIOTT

                          Helen JOHNSON

                          George KAFIG

                          George McWHORTER

                          Richard MILLER

                          Bert RAMSEY

                          Barbara Rogers SHERER

1947                  Edwin BEITZELL

                          M. Martinelli BROCKWAY

                          Linda Locke HOWE

1946                  Mary Jane ABDILL Hunt

                          Harry L. CASTERLIN

                          Wilma McATEE

                          Irma TAISCHOFF

1945                  Lindsey BERGEN

                          Eleanor Updike MILLER

                          Olga Sturtevant TOULMIN

                          Peggy SCHAAF Van Deusen

                         

                          Erma BROWN Carchedi

 

 

 

? Year:

1950  Frank Wright, Jr., painter

1973  Robert B. Portney, MD - First prize in violin.

1948  Richard Miller remains active as a painter, printmaker and graphic artist. He has had 16 one-man exhibitions in his career since 1950

Paul Jacobs

 Paul won the $4000 Organ Competition funded from Bonita Crowe Wagner Music Legacy and the Katherine Nordell Lloyd Music Award Fund.

Anna Sofia Jalickee, '66? Winner of National Society of Arts and Letters, Washington Chapter Career Award in Ceramics.

1956  Thomas Locker - painting

 

Web Sites - Who's Who of Award Winners

Former NSAL, Washington Chapter winners. Visit their Web pages, attend their performances, read their works or visit their exhibitions.

Please visit the Web Pages of some of our past winners:

  • Elizabeth Ayres , writer, now runs a writing school. visit her site at http://www.creativewritingcenter.com
  • Carl Banner   winner of the 1964 Donor Scholarship Mrs Charles K. Holmes in piano, renewed in 1965. Also see below and our page on Carl .
  • Ty Alan Emerson winner of the Eleanor Searle McCollum Donor Award Competition in Original Composition for One Voice, Accompanied 1999.
  • Julie Cox Kent winner of Constance Caraway Erskine Donor Award in Ballet, May 1985. She is now a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre and is in three of their gallery photo shots.
  • Carole Sue Lebbin , winner in painting may be reached at carolesue@juno.com.  She continues to paint, makes prints and shows her work through galleries and consultants.  Visit her web site at http://www.sdims.com/artco
  • Thomas Locker winner in painting is now selling his works at sales@thomaslocker.com and booking shows or talks can be done through Marina Brown
  • Amanda McKerrow won the scholarship donor award from the Washington Chapter in 1980 and won the second place $3500 in the National Society of Arts and Letters, National competition that year. She is now a principal dancer with ABT.
  • Jessye Norman , winner in voice, has become an International singing star since her award in 1966. Jessye's biography can be found at Philips Classics at http://www.philipsmusic.com/norman.html and lists of her recordings now available on cd can be found at http://www.philclas.polygram.nl/class/am-o/norman.htm and linked pages from there.
  • Awadagin Pratt winner of the 1989 $3000 Constance Caraway Erskine Award, renewed $500 in 1990 to make a CD.
  • Frank Wright , artist, now has his own web page at http://www.gwu.edu/~FWRIGHT.

 

 

 
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