Biographies

Melanie Suter

She was born and raised in Canton, South Dakota, where she graduated from Canton High School. She played bassoon for seven years and now plays in USD's Symphonic band and in the USD Orchestra. She has one yonger sister and one yonger brother. Both of them go to Canton High School. She is a USD Medical School Alumni Scholar. She is a Biology major with a Chemistry minor.

Amy Vander Lugt

She was born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She started taking piano lessons in fourth grade and viola lessons in sixth grade. Music has been a big part of her life ever since. She has been in public school orchestras, as well as Youth Symphony, the South Dakota Symphony, and All-State Orchestra. She went to Washington High School and graduated as one of the twelve validictorians in the class of more than 350. She has one yonger brother, Brian, who is a freshman at Washington High School. She has not decided on a major yet.

Jackie Barber

She is from Onida, South Dakota. Currently, she is an Honor student majoring in Chemistry. She is active in Student Ambassadors, Kappa Alpha Theta, and College Republicans.

Mike Gregory

He was raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He is majoring in History and English. He is tenatively planning on graduate school.

Amanda Wilcoxen

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