2023-24 Merwin Scholarship Recipients

Each year the Gonzaga Music Department awards the Merwin Scholarship in memory of Gordon Merwin, member of the 1935-39 Gonzaga Men's Glee Club and the Gonzaga Quartet. Current Gonzaga Music students who have demonstrated outstanding musical and/or academic skills as well as substantive contributions to the Music Department are invited to apply each year. This year we are pleased to announce that the following students have been recognized:

  Portrait of Ashton Blair

Grace Applegate

Major: Music with a Music Performance Concentration & English with an English Writing Concentration
Minor: Psychology
Hometown: 
Sherwood, Oregon


  Kendra Brislawn 

Mary Browne

Major: Music Education with a Music Choral & General Concentration
Hometown: Spokane, WA

Portrait of Mary Brown

Nathan Guest

Major: Public Relations
Minor: Promotion
Hometown: Kenmore, WA


Sara Clark playing the bass with the Bulldog Band

Dora Huestis 

Major: Music Education with a Music Choral & General Concentration & Spanish
Hometown: North Bend, WA

Image of Dora Huestis

Grace Kirsch 

Major: Music Education
Minor: Spanish
Hometown: Phoenix, AZ

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