The Icelandic Canadian - 01.09.1964, Blaðsíða 38

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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Autumn 19G4
MAN AND HIS MUSIC
Magnus Daniel Magnusson
Mayor Stephen Juba trophy as the
meet’s top Manitoba athlete.
Janet won four gold medals in the
Midget events. She won the 100 yards
sprint and established a Canadian
record in the 60 yard dash at 7 seconds
flat, which, however, may not be recog-
nized because of a tailwind. But her
national record of 25.0 seconds for the
220 sprint will undoubtedly be recog-
nized as well as her splendid run in
the 440 yard Midget relay. She anchor-
ed the team of four which ran the 440
relay in the record time of 50.7 sec-
onds.
Janet’s athletic career started when
she won the Athletic Award Trophy at
the General Wolfe school. She won
the outstanding athletic Award
Trophy at the Red River Relays, held
Magnus Daniel Magnusson (Dan)
was born at Hallson, North Dakota,
April 4, 1920. He came to San Diego,
California in Dec. 1922.
At 13 years of age Dan started study-
ing the B flat clarinet while in Junior
High School. He had no private lessons
but class lessons in Junior High where
he played in 'the orchestra.
At the beginning of Senior High
School year he began private lessons.
He studied with Karl Kuehne who had
been a member of Sousa’s Band and
the Minneapolis and Los Angeles
Symphony orchestras. Kuehne was
semi-retired at San Diego and teach-
ing when Dan began his studies with
him. Dan studied with Kuehne for ap-
proximately three years and played in
the Federal Music Project Band for
one year (1938-39) that Kuehne con-
ducted.
Dan graduated from San Diego High
in the Winnipeg Arena in April, 1964.
She has numerous medals, all firsts,
for track meets in Women’s open
events, some before she reached the
age of 15. She received the Rose Bowl
Trophy of the Scottish Sports, July 1,
1964, for the Women’s highest average.
Janet Maddin is a grade XI student
at Daniel McIntyre Collegiate and in
high school has always been an honor
student. She was Freshie-Queen in
grade X and is prominent in school
activities. She is Vice-president of the
Junior Young Peoples of the First
Lutheran Church.
Janet plans to pursue her studies at
the university level and obtain a degree
in Physical Education. She hopes that
during that course she will at least
be able to attend lectures on Icelandic
language, literature and history.