Local Winners of the Fourth National Music Festival for Veterans, January 1984 Photographer: Cecil Lockard
Year:
1984
Ann Arbor News, January 21, 1984
Caption:
VA TALENT WINNERS--Patients from the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Hospital competed on Friday for a chance to perform before a Presidential committee in Washington. The four local hospital winners in the Fourth National Music Festival for Veterans, standing next to VA official Stan Bell (left) are: Dick Griswold of Toledo, pop; Walter Blackwell of Ann Arbor, contemporary; Linda Askew of Romulus, original composition; and C. C. Champion of Ypsilanti, country/western, religious, and folk.
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