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Show PRESTON YOUTH WINS SCHOLARSHIP Jarvis Palmer of Preston was one of five of the University of Idaho's most talented and promising promis-ing music students who have been awarded scholarships for the coming year. The winners were selected in competitive tryouts by members of the music department faculty and will each receive two private lessons a week for which an annual fee of $120 is paid by other students. Mr. Palmer will study on the trombone under Lee Gibson, new director of the concert and military band at that school. Mr. Palmer graduated from the Preston high school in 1937 where he was an active member of the band for three years. He attended the University of Utah in 1937-38 and studied music under Mickey Hart. He then attended Albion Normal for two quarters during the year of 1938-39. There he was a member of the Pep band and won a letter in music for playing over the radio at Twin Falls. During the 1939-40 school year he attended the University Univer-sity of Idaho and during the summer sum-mer months he has been associated associat-ed with local dance orchestras. |