Viola Turpeinen induction

Abstrakti

Brian Juntikka, District 6 delegate to the Michigan State Music Hall Of Fame, has nominated the late Viola Turpeinen Syrjälä to be inducted into the Hall Of Fame at a ceremony coincidental with the Ninth Annual Polka Celebration in South Range, Michigan on Sunday, September 16, 2001. It will be the first post-humus induction ever made from the Upper Peninsula and she will join seven others already inducted from the U.P. since 1997. Arthur Moilanen of Mass City and William Stimac of Dodgeville were the first U.P. inductees in 1997. In 1999, Edward Raffaelli of South Range and Joseph Pleshe of Portage Township were inducted. Last year, Richard Debelak of Munising, Robert Raffaelli of South Range and Tone Pleshe of Chassell were inducted.