University of Maryland Eastern Shore Campus - Hawk Yearbook (Princess Anne, MD)

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WHO ' S WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES Donald Baker Thomas Cevis Ellison Brock Hattie Griffin Larry Brooks Bertina Hurley Charles Kinsiow Harmon Marshall Deborah Savajie

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GAIL NELSON, Soprano MISS GAIL NELSON, is presently appearing in the broadway company of Pearl Bailey ' s Hello Dolly, with Cab Calloway. She is an understudy for the ingenue lead, Mrs. Molloy, and for the cameo role of Mrs. Rose. Within the year and a half living in New York City, Miss Nelson has been quite active in television commercials, television shows for CBS and NBC, movies, leads in summer stock, recording for major companies, night club work and strangely enough, classical concerts and opera. She has toured with the young choral group under Columbia Artists Management as a soloist with the Wit Lo Singers and just recently has joined the Metropolitan Opera Studio in New York City, which trains professional young singers under the auspices of the Metropolitan opera company. Miss Nelson is a graduate of Oberlin College. and received h er Master ' s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music. Her accompanist, Mr. Donald Pratt, is a graduate of Oberlin CoUege and has studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. He received his M.M. degree at Indiana University and has completed course work for his doc- torate degree. A former assistant conductor at the Sante Fe Opera Company in New Mexico, he is presently resid- ing in New York City as a professional accompanist, piano and vocal coach and piano instructor.

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