Two Local Artists Honored For Contributions
Gov. Phil Batt and the Idaho Commission on the Arts recently announced the recipients of the 1998 Governor’s Awards in the Arts.
Mary Herron DuPree, Moscow, Idaho, received recognition in the support of arts education category for efforts to strengthen arts education in Idaho public schools.
DuPree, who received a bachelor’s degree in music history from Hollins College, a master’s degree in musicology at the University of North Carolina and her Ph.D. in musicology at the University of Colorado, is a UI professor of music history and musicology, specializing in American and 20th century music.
DuPree, founder and director of the Auditorium Chamber Music Series in Moscow, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music and interdisciplinary courses in American studies, as well as researching music criticism, historiography and the history of community music making, including early town bands in Idaho.
Marilyn Sabella, Sandpoint, was recognized in the support of the arts category, for individuals corporations, communities and organizations that have made significant arts contributions in Idaho.
Sabella, founder of the free local outdoor musical series, including Sunday Concerts on the Lawn and Summer Sounds at Park Place in Sandpoint, has raised over a quarter of a million dollars for the arts in Sandpoint through the Holly Eve auction/entertainment fashion show which began 19 years ago. Proceeds have benefited the Panida Theatre in Sandpoint.
Sabella was the first commissioner to serve on the Idaho Commission on the Arts for three terms and the only one to serve under three governors. She was also the chair during Idaho’s Centennial Celebration and supervised the All Idaho/All Arts Governor’s Conference. Sabella was Idaho’s representative for five years with the Western States Arts Federation.
She is a former member of the executive committee of the University of Idaho’s College of Art and Architecture Advisory Board, and past president of Arts Northwest.
Kristi Wilson, a 16-year-old Rathdrum, Idaho, resident, recently received the Horsemanship Award at the District Horse Show in St. Maries.
Wilson is a a five-year member of the Diablos 4-H Club and a junior at Post Falls High School with a 4.0 grade-point average.
Wilson was honored for her knowledge and skills in horsemanship and was judged on a written exam, demonstration of grooming and handling techniques, an evaluation of equitation and reining skills, and an oral presentation on imprint training for foals.
The performance phase of the award is presented once a year at the four district shows and is administered through the University of Idaho State 4-H Office. Participants must be at least 14 years old and score above 90 percent.
Norma Holm, a member of Take Off Pounds Sensibly of Coeur d’Alene Chapter No. 30, was recently presented with a plaque, pendant and flowers in recognition of her maintained weight loss of 43 pounds for 30 years during her membership in Keep Off Pounds Sensibly.
The University of Idaho College of Business and Economics has been named a Superior Merit Winner by the Society for Human Resource Management for its support of the student chapter.
Of 340 SHRM student chapters nationwide, UI was one of 58 to earn the status based on human resource management-related programming and activities.