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GRACE LENORE GOSLING
Grace Lenore Gosling, talented young
Los Angeles artiste, has been a teacher of piano since 1926, maintaining a
studio at 1224 Sanborn Avenue. She was
born in Ottawa, Ohio, the daughter of Joseph H. and Elsa M. (Kolhoff) Gosling, who are mentioned in the preceding
biography. It was in the year 1911 that
she accompanied her parents on their westward removal to California, the family
home being established in Santa Monica, Los Angeles County. Here she was graduated from the Santa Monica
high school and subsequently entered the University of California at Los
Angeles, of which she is a graduate.
Miss Gosling studied piano under the
direction of Charles C. Draa and received voice
training from George Ballantine. She is now director of music at the
Immaculate Conception school, at St. Thomas school and at the Immaculate Heart
grammar school of Los Angeles. As stated
above, she has taught piano since 1926 and the success of her methods is demonstrated
by her present large class of pupils.
She was chosen national extension officer of the Phi Beta music and
dramatic fraternity, served as delegate to the national convention held in
Chicago in 1927 and was acting grand president at the convention held in Los
Angeles in 1929. Miss Gosling is also a
member of the Phi Mu, the Los Angeles Opera and Fine Arts Club and the Society
for the Advancement of Music in America.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Page 11, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis.
1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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