Evening Star (Washington, DC)
4 July 1930
MANASSAS SCHOOLS BEGIN MUSIC STUDY
Miss Virginia Speiden Appointed Director, with Singing and Chorus Work Planned
Special Dispatch to the Star
MANASSAS, Va., July 4.--With the appointment yesterday by the school board of Miss Virginia Nelson Spieden to the newly created office of director of music in the Manassas schools, the plans for training graded school children in singing and high school girls in chorus work will be brought to fruition in September.
Miss Spieden is a graduate of Manassas High School, the Temple School of Music here, has studied under private instructors and was an honor graduate in music at Hollins College, Roanoke.
The honor of placing music in the local schools belongs to the chorus section of the Manassas Women's Club, as the school officials, though favoring the project, had no funds available for the purpose. The chorus section of the Woman's Club was organized last year by Mrs. R. S. Illingworth, and under her direction the chorus came to be the outstanding musical organization in Prince William County. Through a series of concerts given from time to time here and at other points in the county sufficient funds have been realized and turned over to the school board to finance the school music for the school term of 1930-31.
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