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MISS FLORENCE G. PIGEON.

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MISS FLORENCE G. PIGEON was graduated from Lincoln Institute in the class of 1901, and was regarded by both teachers and students as a model young woman.

Her womanly bearing, modesty and high regard for truth and honesty won for her a warm place in the social life of the school.

She received her grammar-school training in the public schools of Fort Scott, Kansas, her native home, and attended the high school there two years.

At a very early period she exhibited a talent for in-

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strumental music, and received the best instruction available in Fort Scott at that time. She pursued her musical course in connection with her literary studies in Lincoln Institute and in her day was the most advanced musical pupil in the school.

Since graduation she has spent two years at study in the Chicago Conservatory of Music, and has added considerably to the skill she had already acquired in her line.

In 1902 she was elected assistant in the department of music in her Alma Mater, and the next year was given charge of the department of instrumental music.

Her work has been very satisfactory both in the music room and in the concert hall, and when a singer of classic music comes to the city she is in demand as an accompanist because of her ability to read and play music at sight.