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Show CHAIR OF MUSIC GIFT TO WESTMINSTER BY R. J. BALL It was announced this week by Pat Lees, publicity director of Westminster college, that Mrs. Sylvia Syl-via G. Ball, 1184 Yale avenue, has made a gift to Westminster college as the foundation for a Chair of Music in the name of her son, the late Robert James Ball. Mrs. Ball, who is the widow of James H. Ball, for a number of years attorney for Utah Oil Refining Re-fining company,, is a lover of music mu-sic and for some time has been interested in the development of the Westminster music department. I The endowment started by Mrs. Ball is expected to total $150,000 from several contributors, Mrs. Lees said. The Robert James Ball Chair of Music is filled this year by William Bshnell, who plans to introduce new courses in church music. He is leader of the Westminster A Capella choir, which will present its first concert December 4 at the Hellenic Memorial building, 263 South Second West. Mrs. Ball will, be specially honored hon-ored at the concert, since her en- dowment made it possible to organize or-ganize and support the choir. Mrs. Ball is known in music circles as an accomplished contralto soloist. The son in whose name she made the gift to Westminster was an honor graduate of East high school and the University of Utah. He did graduate work in music at Harvard university at the time of his death on July 13, 1944. |