Ithaca College

Performing music by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Scriabin, Piano Performance Major, Angelique Scully was recently named the winner of the 2021 Mary Hayes North Competition for IC piano seniors by the sole judge of the event, Dr. Jennifer Hayghe (International Performing Pianist and Member of the Piano Faculty of the College of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder).

A member of the class of 1927, Mary Hayes North made a bequest to the School of Music to express her deep appreciation to Ithaca College for the instruction and scholarship that she received here.  She provided an endowment in her will to establish The Mary Hayes North Award to be given annually to a senior piano major, who, after a recital competition, has been judged to be the worthiest recipient.   

Mary Hayes North was born and raised in Newcomerstown, Ohio; her younger brother became the famous football coach, Woody Hayes at Ohio State.  She studied acting and classical piano at Ithaca and was cast almost immediately upon graduation as George Jessel’s female lead on Broadway, because she could act and play the piano at the same time.  She later served as house mother, first at Ithaca College in its old location with dorms up and down Buffalo Street and later at Cornell.