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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Autumn 1968
select young men who joined the air
force academy cadet wing this year.
The “Honors at Entrance” award is
given in recognition of outstanding
scholastic achievement based on the
academy’s entrance tests and evidence
of leadership ability.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Gudmund-
son of Mountain, he entered the air
force academy in June at Colorado
Springs, Colo. Mr. Gudmundson on
graduation at Edniburgh High School
was co-valedictorian. He has been ac-
tive in basketball, football and base-
ball, served as president of the student
council this year and has held class of-
fices during his high school career.
★
MRS. EVELYN ALLEN
REPRESENTS MANITOBA
At the Folkways ’68 Festival held in
the Manitoba Centennial Concert Hall
in Winnipeg in May, soprano Evelyn
Allen, Rose Bowl winner at the Man-
itoba Musical Competition Festival in
1967, represented the Icelandic com-
munity, wore the Fjallkona costume
and sang an Icelandic song. A talent
scout, Leon Kossar of Toronto, attend-
ed and chose Mrs. Allen to represent
Manitoba in a Variety Show in Ottawa
commemorating Canada’s 101st anni-
versary, sponsored by the Department
of the Secretary of State. She sang at
three performances in Ottawa, in
Leamy Park June 30 and in Vincent
Massey Park and on Parliament Hill
July 1. Mr. Allen is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Thorvaldson of
Winnipeg.
William D. Valgardson of Winnipeg
has been advised that his poem, Paul
Isfeld: Fisherman, has been selected
to receive first prize award of $100 in
the Rochester Festival of Religious
Arts poetry competition in the United
States. The awards were presented to
winners at North Rochester, N.Y.
in April.
Mr. Valgardson has during the past
fall and winter been teaching rhetoric
at the University of Iowa City, Iowa.
In April he was awarded a $720 Can-
ada Council grant and during the
summer will make his home at Gimli
where he will work on compilation of
his book of poetry about Lake Win-
nipeg and the lake region.
★
Mr. Harry E. Thorsteinson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Thorsteinson, of Ot-
tawa, formerly of Winnipeg, has pass-
ed his Bar Admission Course at Os-
goode Hall, Toronto, and was admit-
ted to the Bar in March 22, 1968. He
will practise in St. Catherines, Ont.
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