Please visit the Web Pages of some of our past winners:

• Elizabeth Ayres , writer, now runs a writing school. visit her site at http://www.creativewritingcenter.com
• Carl Banner   winner of the 1964 Donor Scholarship Mrs Charles K. Holmes in piano, renewed in 1965. Also see below and our page on Carl .
• Ty Alan Emerson winner of the Eleanor Searle McCollum Donor Award Competition in Original Composition for One Voice, Accompanied 1999.
• Julie Cox Kent winner of Constance Caraway Erskine Donor Award in Ballet, May 1985. She is now a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre and is in three of their gallery photo shots.
• Carole Sue Lebbin , winner in painting may be reached at [email protected].  She continues to paint, makes prints and shows her work through galleries and consultants.  Visit her web site at http://www.sdims.com/artco
• Thomas Locker winner in painting is now selling his works at [email protected] and booking shows or talks can be done through Marina Brown
• Amanda McKerrow won the scholarship donor award from the Washington Chapter in 1980 and won the second place $3500 in the National Society of Arts and Letters, National competition that year. She is now a principal dancer with ABT.
• Jessye Norman , winner in voice, has become an International singing star since her award in 1966. Jessye's biography can be found at Philips Classics at http://www.philipsmusic.com/norman.html and lists of her recordings now available on cd can be found at http://www.philclas.polygram.nl/class/am-o/norman.htm and linked pages from there.
• Awadagin Pratt winner of the 1989 $3000 Constance Caraway Erskine Award, renewed $500 in 1990 to make a CD.
• Frank Wright , artist, now has his own web page at http://www.gwu.edu/~FWRIGHT.

NSAL official flower. Copyright Marci Nadler 1996

Partial listing of former winners. Information on some current activities.

ART

• Christopher Fletcher , winner of the National Society of Arts and Letters Career Award in Printmaking 1997.
• Jeremiah Johnson , promising artist winner Printmaking competition 1997.
• Jennifer Ann Schmidt is a promising artist winner in Printmaking competition 1997.
• Anna Sofia Jalickee studied with Kevin Hluck at Montgomery College before going on for her MFA.
• Martha Tuzson Stockton, won the architecture award.  The challenge was in relation to historic preservation and restoration.  She is now licensed in Virginia and works for Stoneking von Storch Architects in Charlottesville, VA.  She is a member of AIA, the historic preservation representative on the Charlottesville Urban Design Committee and editor of the local salvation army newsletter.  address 2631 Jefferson Pk. Circle, Charlottesville, VA 22093.
• Aaron Wuerker , winner 1993 NSAL Promising Artist Award, exhibits nationwide, teaches in Connecticut.
• Enid Adams , winner of 1980 Cleome Wadsworth Donor Award in Textile Design, with renewals in 1981 and 1982. Now at Enid Adams Surface Design Studio in The Plains, VA.
• Alice M. Plaste r, winner 1973 of NSAL drawing scholarship award is still exhibiting and winning awards in painting. She recently specialized in painting antique cars.
  
• Thomas Locker , winner of the Scholarship NSAL Washington Chapter in 1956. His paintings are exhibited and sold across the United States and he has begun to write books for children and illustrate his own as well as books by others. His books have won many honors and high acclaim.
• Washington Artist, Frank Wright , is mentioned on the first page of the NSAL pages. See his exhibit this summer at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC. Frank won the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Trust scholarship in painting in 1950 with renewals in 1952 and 1953.
• Richard Miller continues to exhibit his art in New York City galleries regularly. He won the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Trust scholarship in 1948 with renewal awards from 1949 to 1952 and another in 1955.  He can be reached through Wendy Glass Gallery, 315 Central Park West, New York, NY and at 222 West 83 Street, #8c, New York, NY 10024.

DANCE

• Joie Jennings Meffert won the $4000 Mary Rich Peery Fife Memorial Award in Ballet May 2000. She took seventh place in the National competition winning $1000.
• Elizabeth Anne Terschuur won the $1,500 promising artist Mary Rich Peery Fife Memorial Award in Ballet, May 2000.
• Jennifer Scully won the NSAL Washington Chapter competition in Modern Dance in 1995. She perfromed with dance companies in New York City until the Autumn of 1991. She received rave reviews for her performance of "Sarajevo" with her partner in the Gamble/Van Dyke Dance Company. Jennifer Scully taught dance at the Ballet Academy East in NYC. 2002 Jennifer begins teaching a Master Class at the University of Western Kentucky.
• Stephanie Anne Walz won the Constance Caraway Erskine Donor Award in Ballet in 1990. She is now in the corps de ballet at American Ballet Theatre.
• Carmen O. Rosario won the Charlotte H. Ferris Donor Award in 1990 in Ballet.
• Mark Dendy took the $2000 scholarship award in choreograhpy in 1982 with a renewal in 1988. Mark continues to perform his own works around the country. His home is now New York city. In 1988 Mark performed at the Kennedy Center, running a workshop in modern dance for a month followed by a performance by the students. He received rave reviews in the Washington Post. Use search engines on his name to see where he is performing next. There is a site in North Carolina that keeps the most recent records of his performance schedule.
• Amanda McKerrow won the 1980 Ballet scholarship in the Washington Chapter and the NSAL National Career Award the same year. She was on loan from American Ballet Theatre to Washington Ballet for the 1999-2000 season receiving rave reviews in the Washington Post.
• Lynn Cote is now choreographer in residence at the Washington Ballet (same site as Carmen Rosario but on the home page and look on Staff pages). Lynn won first place in NSAL Washington Chapter National Career Award in Ballet in May 1975.
• Marianna Tcherkassky winner Scholarship Donor Award in Dance, NSAL, Washington Chapter, May 1967. Marianna Tcherkassky is now a member of the Advisory Council of the Washington Chapter. Marianna recently retired from her tenure as Primier Dancer with American Ballet Theater.
• Suzanne Longley won the 1970 Washington Chapter competition in Ballet and represented our chapter in the National Career Awards competition taking the Second Award. She is now a Landscape installer and designer in Houston, TX after 15 years of successful performances in various Ballet companies, finishing the last 9 years with the Houston ballet as Principal Ballerina.

DRAMA

• Jerry Richardson winner of $4000 Award in Acting 1999.
• Jennifer Book winner of $2000 Promising Artist Award 1999. Presently attends American University.
• Noel True , winner of  1994 Mollie Davis Nicholson Memorial Fund, Washington Chapter Award in Acting.
• Arthur Hanket winner of $1500 Scholarship Award in Acting 1976 will be performing in The Merry Wives of Windsor in San Diego's Old Globe Theater in September and October 1999.

LITERATURE

• Joshua Kimerling won the 2000 Non-Fiction: Feature Article The Frank and Hilda W. Reinhart Memorial Award  for $3000 for his work "Night Writers." Joshua is now working for Stein Rogan and Partners Ad Agency as creative coordinator. Reach him at [email protected]
• Jennifer Smith won The Frank and Hilda W. Reinhard Memorial Award in 2000 for Non-Fiction: Feature Article, promising artist $1000.
• Andrea Jeyaveeran from Washington, DC winner of the 1998 creative writing award. Now works in communications at Bread for the World. Her parents are from India. She was born in Zambia, but has lived in the USA since she was two years old.
• Stephen Battista is from Columbia, MD 1998 promising artist winner in creative writing accepted into John's Hopkins University Writing Seminars Masters Program.
• Donna C. Lettow won the Frank W. Reinhart Memorial Award for Television Script-writing in 1993. Was Associate Creative Consultant on the "Highlander" tv series until 1998. Worked on "Promised Land." and more...
• Elizabeth Ayres , winner in 1973 Poetry Award. Now runs her own creative writing center http://www.creativewritingcenter.com . Her newest book is Writing the Wave: Inspired Rides for Aspiring Writers, from Putnam/Perigee.

MUSIC

• Christopher Atzinger won $4000 Mildred B. Frame Memorial Award in piano in May 2002.
  
• Joseph Satava won $2000 Promising Young Artist Award in piano in May 2002
  
• Jennifer I Yeo won the Marceil Greenhalgh Bishop Music Award in piano of $4000 in May 2000.
• Kuei-I Wu won the $2000 promising artist award in piano in May 2000 from the Marceil Greenhalgh Bishop Music Award Fund.
• Ty Alan Emerson   won the Eleanor Searle McCollum Donor Award Competition in Composition for his work, "Bridal Ballad." He continues to compose new works. His music is to be performed in Massachusetts 2001.
• Paul Jacobs comes from Washington, PA. He is a student at Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. At age 15 he was appointed head organist to the Immaculate Conception Catholic church in Washington, PA. This is a large church of 3,000 families. Currently he is assistant organist of Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge, PA.
• Clancy Newman won the Bonita Crowe Wagner Music Legacy Award after competition in cello in 1992 and a renewal in 1998.
• Awadagin Pratt won the Constance Caraway Erskine Donor Award in piano 1989.
• Christopher Harding won the Marceil Greehalgh Bishop award in piano in 1989.
• Richard Andrew Ullman, won the 1975 classical guitar Scholarship Donor Award, Carl Andrew Spaatz.  Richard now lives in Vermont.  He is a teacher and performer of the classical guitar, teaching at Castleton State College and Green Mountain College as well as the Brattleboro Music Center.  He often performs with singer Elaine Russell.  He hopes to publish some of his many guitar and voice transcriptions.
• Robert Portney, MD , won the violin competition in 1973.  He divides his time between his medical career and his concertizing.  He may be reached at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Neurology Clinic in Boston, MA or through Gurtman and Murtha Associates, 450  7th Ave., New York, NY 10123.  Management and Public Realtions of concert violin career. phone 212-967-7350.
• John S. Aler, III , won the 1972 Award in Voice and renewal in 1973. Performs Internationally receiving rave reviews.
• Edward Newman won in piano in 1970 with renewals in 1972 and 1979 and now teaches at George Mason University in Virginia when not on tour.
• Francis Conlon is a pianist who won our competition in 1967 and received extra funding to compete in International competitions, placing in those. He remains active in Washington, DC area performing, teaching, and arranging free concerts every month at The Church of the Annunciation in Washington, DC.
• Carl Banner won the 1964 Scholarship Mrs. Charles K. Holmes Donor Award. He is a pianist, active in chamber music ensembles in the Washington DC area.  The Washington Post reviews his concerts very favorably.  Look for him at Washington Musica Viva, Inc and Cezanne Trio at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in the coming months in Washington, D C.
• Olga Sturtevant Toulmin (Sunny Toulmin) won a piano competition 1945 to 1950 in the early years of NSAL. She still plays piano and loves accompanying singers but now, mostly in retirement communities in Providence, RI.  She plays by ear and transposes easily so is quite popular at nursing homes and retirement homes where she plays old favorites.