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Mechanically Handicapped Pianist Wins Peabody Entry
Nineteen year old Jerry Cleve land, an amputee of his right hand and forearm, enters a Peabody Conservatory summer program with aid from Dr. Tinka Knopf and Dr. Gerard Schmeisser. He has worked as a lumber yard employee, made films for doctors, finished high school, and taught piano locally. He plans to study on a Shenandoah Conservatory scholarship in Winchester Virginia.
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Baltimore. Md
Jerry Cleveland
Peabody Conservatory
Tinka Knopf
Peabody
Knopf
Gerard Schmeisser
Baltimore City
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Cleveland
The
Shenandoah Conservatory
Winchester