Education:
Graduated from Bloomington High School in June 1925.
Received: B.P.S.M, 1929, Indiana University, Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana.
Received: A.M. in Music Education and Composition, 1930, Indiana University, Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana
Received: B.M. (violoncello), 1932, Indiana University, Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana after spending a summer studying in Locarno, Switzerland with Prof. Lennart von Zweygberg
Occupation: She taught 39 years in public schools and colleges from 1930, as music supervisor at Unionville, IN (Benton T.), in Liberty, IN and College Corner, O.; as Music Critic teacher in Laboratory Schools in State Teachers Colleges in Hattiesburg, Mississippi (now Miss. Southern), Murray, KY (now Murray State) plus teaching methods, theory and cello on the college level; and at Montevallo, Alabama State College for Women Laboratory School teaching strings and choral music. When her husband Joe was ordered overseas in 1943, she return to Bloomington, and taught at Bloomington High School. She returned to the elementary music field later, and staying in that field in the Bloomington area until retirement in 1971 when her husband was retiring from the Indianapolis schools. She continued teaching piano privately until 1981
“From 1930 to 1950 she played cello extensively as soloist and in ensembles. During her husband’s duty at Shaw Field, South Carolina, she played with the Southern Symphony. She was cellist with the college orchestras and faculty quartets where she taught, and upon retirement played two years with the Bloomington Symphony.
She married Joseph Nathan Garton on 24 Jan 1940 in Murray, Kentucky.
She died on 16 Feb 2003 in Bloomington Hospital, Bloomington, Monroe County, IN, at age 94.1
Education:
Graduated from Bloomington High School in June 1925.
Received: B.P.S.M, 1929, Indiana University, Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana.
Received: A.M. in Music Education and Composition, 1930, Indiana University, Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana
Received: B.M. (violoncello), 1932, Indiana University, Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana after spending a summer studying in Locarno, Switzerland with Prof. Lennart von Zweygberg
Occupation: She taught 39 years in public schools and colleges from 1930, as music supervisor at Unionville, IN (Benton T.), in Liberty, IN and College Corner, O.; as Music Critic teacher in Laboratory Schools in State Teachers Colleges in Hattiesburg, Mississippi (now Miss. Southern), Murray, KY (now Murray State) plus teaching methods, theory and cello on the college level; and at Montevallo, Alabama State College for Women Laboratory School teaching strings and choral music. When her husband Joe was ordered overseas in 1943, she return to Bloomington, and taught at Bloomington High School. She returned to the elementary music field later, and staying in that field in the Bloomington area until retirement in 1971 when her husband was retiring from the Indianapolis schools. She continued teaching piano privately until 1981
“From 1930 to 1950 she played cello extensively as soloist and in ensembles. During her husband’s duty at Shaw Field, South Carolina, she played with the Southern Symphony. She was cellist with the college orchestras and faculty quartets where she taught, and upon retirement played two years with the Bloomington Symphony.
She married Joseph Nathan Garton on 24 Jan 1940 in Murray, Kentucky.
She died on 16 Feb 2003 in Bloomington Hospital, Bloomington, Monroe County, IN, at age 94.1
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