Congratulations to our 2024 Chapter Winners!
The Annual Awards Competition for 2024 was in Musical Theater. Our Chapter First Place Winner was Parnassus Funk, a student in the Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre and plans to graduate in May 2025. Parnassus received the Chapter First Place Award of $2,000 and also won the National Third Place Prize of $8,000.
The Second Place Winner in Musical Theater was Cajani Hurd, who received $1,000, and the Third Place Winner was Olivia Balicki, who received $750. Both are students in the Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University.
There were two winners of the Naomi Rabb Winston Scholarship in Two-Dimensional Art: Anna Flynn Dorsey of Webster Groves High School and Ariel Gotlinghorst of Kirkwood High School. Lydia Hines of Lindbergh High School received an Honorable Mention. The winner of the Shirley Rabb Winston Scholarship in Classical Voice was Arielle Pedersen, a student at Brigham Young University.
Left to Right Above:
Lydia Hines, Winston 2-D Art Honorable Mention; Arielle Pedersen, Winston Voice Chapter Winner; Parnassus Funk, Chapter Winner and National Third Place Winner, Musical Theater Competition; Dr. Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal, Past President of NSAL St. Louis Chapter; Adelia Parker-Castro, Competition Chair and Current President of NSAL St. Louis Chapter; Olivia Balicki, Chapter Third Place Winner in Musical Theater Competition; Cajani Hurd, Chapter Second Place Winner in Musical Theater Competition; Anna Flynn Dorsey, Winston 2-D Art Chapter Winner; Marnie Claunch, Lead Art Educator at University City High School. Not pictured: Ariel Gotlinghorst, Winston Art 2-D Art Chapter Co-Winner.
Our Members in the News
Rebecca Copeland
Chapter Member Rebecca Copeland is the author of a recent mystery novel, The Kimono Tattoo. She was featured at a book signing at the University City Public Library on February 7, 2024. Rebecca, a Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Washington University, is a prolific scholar and translator whose work focuses on modern Japanese women writers. The Kimono Tattoo is her first novel.