JONES, Sister Ida

JONES, Sister Ida (O.S.U.) American harpist, organist, pianist, lecturer and composer. Louisville, KY, August 9, 1898. She studied at the Ursuline College and the Cincinnati Conservatory under George Leighton and Carl Hugo Grimm and the piano, the organ and the harp privately. She taught in church schools from 1922 to 1934 and at the Ursuline College from 1934 to 1940 and then until 1966 was chairlady of the music department. In 1961 she won a Composers’ Press publication award. From 1968 she…