Wilma smith biography
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Renowned violinist Wilma Smith receives 2025 Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award
Distinguished violinist Wilma Smith has been announced as the recipient of the 2025 Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award.
The Award, established by the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, is presented each year to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to music in Australia. It honours the memory of Sir Bernard Heinze (1894 – 1982), a pioneer of orchestral life in Australia, who was Ormond Professor of Music at the University of Melbourne for over 30 years.
Wilma Smith, born in 1956 in Suva, Fiji, and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, is a violinist renowned for her contributions to orchestral and chamber music across Australasia. Her early musical education in New Zealand was followed by further study at the New England Conservatory in Boston, after which she co-founded the Boston-based Lydian String Quartet, winners of the Naumburg Award for Chamber Music i
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Wilma Smith (newscaster)
American journalist
Wilma Smith | |
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| Born | Wilma Pokorny (1946-07-24) July 24, 1946 (age 78) Garfield Heights, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | Bowling Green State University, 1968, B.A. (Speech, English), 1972, M.A. (Journalism) |
| Occupation | Television newsanchor |
| Years active | 1972–2013 |
| Known for | Longtime TV news anchor/reporter in Cleveland, OH market |
| Spouse | Tom Gerber (m. 1982) |
Wilma Smith (born July 24, 1946) is a former American local television news anchor who spent most of her career in Cleveland, Ohio. She was with Fox affiliate WJW-TV from 1994 to 2013, following 17 years at ABC affiliate WEWS-TV.[1][2]
Early life and education
[edit]Born Wilma Pokorny, Smith was born and raised in the Cleveland suburb of Garfield Heights.[1][2] She graduated from Garfield Heights High School in 1964 and then earned a bachelor's grad in speech a
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Wilma Smith lives on an eighty-acre farm in rural Mississippi. She spent her childhood growing up on a small dairy farm. Having no brothers, only sisters, her dad taught them to milk cows, drive tractors, and haul hay just like boys. But her roots were also deeply embedded in education since eight of her dad’s brothers and sisters, including him, had been school teachers. She graduated from East Central Community College and from Delta State University with a B.A. degree in English and a minor in French. Wilma taught in Mississippi Public Schools for twenty- five years and retired. At that point, she joined the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and worked for fifteen years on the reservation as an English teacher and RTI Facilitator. Wilma married her high school sweetheart the week after she graduated from Delta State, and they are celebrating forty- eight years of marriage. She is the mother of three children, Emily, Shannon, and Richard; mother-in-law to Carl, Kevin, and Samant