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Show Former student takes honors on west coast A high school band in Ukiah Calif., directed by a former Springville resident and graduate grad-uate of the local high school, Du Wayne Donithorne, last week, took first place honors in northern California high school band competition, according ac-cording to word received here. It was the- first year the band had appeared in the annual festival, held in Areata. In a city of between nine and ten thousand people, the band is composed of seventy members.' When they completed complet-ed their contest) number, a newspaper story stated, the audience 1 rose to its feet for a standing ovation, shout i n g compliments. Now that the band has succeeded suc-ceeded in capturing northern California competition, Donithorne Doni-thorne has his eye in capturing captur-ing additional honors for the city stating they were ready to tackle the Bay Area bands. A graduate of the University of Utah. Du; Wayne is married to the former Pauline Boyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ar-thur Boyer of Springville. ' |