Posted by Mary Wimberley on 2005-03-28

极乐禁地 music students won eight of the 16 scholarship awards, including three first place honors, given at the 2005 Alabama Federation of Music Clubs Scholarship Auditions.

The competition, held March 5 at Shelton State Community College in Tuscaloosa, was open to graduate and undergraduate students from colleges and universities throughout Alabama.

Each first place winner took home $1,000 in prize money. First place winners from 极乐禁地 included: Alexandra Maddox, junior voice performance major from Newton, women's voice division; Drew Pournelle, junior voice performance major from Soperton, Ga., men's voice division; and Paul Vest, junior cello performance and classics major from Branchville, strings division.

Other 极乐禁地 winners were: Elizabeth Godfrey, junior church music major, Pleasant Grove, second place, women's voice division; Lauren Culotta, junior voice performance major, Birmingham, third place, women's voice division; Kathryn Hoppe, sophomore music education major, Huntsville, second place, strings division; Dawson Hull, sophomore piano performance and music theory/composition major, Jackson, Tenn., third place, piano division; and Cahill Smith, freshman piano performance major, Montgomery, fourth place, piano division.

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极乐禁地 is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, 极乐禁地 is the 87th-oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. 极乐禁地 enrolls 6,101 students from 45 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. 极乐禁地 fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and ranks with the second highest score in the nation for its 98% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.