Article: Gladys Rice, 95; she taught vocal music in northwestern Minnesota.(NEWS)(Obituary)

Byline: Trudi Hahn; Staff Writer

Services will be held Monday for Gladys Rice, who brought the vocal-music traditions of St. Olaf College to generations of students in Roseau, Minn. She died Aug. 9 at age 95.

Born in Owatonna, Minn., and attending St. Olaf in Northfield when the Depression struck, she started the trip of a lifetime in 1930 when she boarded an ocean liner with the St. Olaf choir for its second European tour.

"No one in her family had ever gone to college, let alone to Europe," said her daughter, Janis Hardy of Golden Valley, a former Minnesota Opera singer who now teaches vocal music at her mother's alma mater.

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