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Alumni News (page 2)If you are an alumnus/a and have news you wish included in the newsletter PRISM, send news now using our new form. Where are you? We would like to update our records. Please send in your notes about what you’re doing, in work and in life. Complete this form with your news. ALUMNI NOTESIn response to our alumni mailing after the Robert Baker celebration in October, we heard from many of our alumni. Here is a sampling of notes from all over: UTS | ISM | BAKER REMEMBRANCE UTSHeywood Alexander (DSM ’67) basically “retired” in Hanover, NH, but is still active, both conducting and playing some. His book To Stretch our Ears/A Documentary History of America’s Music was published by W.W. Norton, 2002. He also has a book to be issued next fall (2006) on the history of the Handel Society of Dartmouth College, in conjunction with the society’s bicentennial celebration. S. William Aitken’s (SMM ’68) experience is “…like many—Episcopal Parish—volunteer/prof.singers—concert series—director of music for large reform Jesuit congregation…” He has gotten to design and build (with builders) three pipe organs in UK. Mary S. Archer’s husband of 54 years, Herb Archer (’59), died Aug. 17, 2005. Yale’s former faculty member, Martha Moore-Keish and her husband Chris are very active in the Atlanta Community—in fact, Chris succeeded Herb Archer as Parish Visitor Jan. 2005 (Atlanta’s First Presbyterian Church). John G. Barr (SMM ’62, SMD ’77) is retired from Bridgewater College (Professor of Organ and Piano Emeritus). James A. Blox (DSM ’64) was on the faculty of Maryville College for forty years (1953-1993). In retirement he continued with a church organ job but now just serves as a substitute organist. James L. Brauer (SMM ’72) just recently had a book published—Worship, Gottesdienst, Cultus Dei: What the Lutheran Confessions say about Worship (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2005). Lora Lee Brown (MSM ’65) is currently retired from UPS-IS-NJ as well as various church music positions in New Jersey. In Seattle, she is organist for SandPoint Community UMC; she volunteers with ACLU, and is active in Kent UMC Women’s Society and others. John F. Bullough (SMM ’58) retired in 1993 from Fairleigh Dickinson University faculty and in 1994, and also retired after 22 years as Organist/Director at St. Paul: Episcopal Church, Englewood, NK. He is presently serving as Chair of Board of Managers of the John R. Rodland Music Scholarship Fund. Maureen Carkeek (SMM ’50) is Adjunct Professor of Piano and a Private Teacher at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Her husband Arthur Carkeek, also 1950 Union graduate, died Oct. 19, 2003. They had a Taylor-Boody house organ built in 1990. J. Richard Coulter (SMM ’57) retired from St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Los Gatos, as organist/choirmaster. Rev. Philip R. Diettrich (SMM ’66) still composes and subs as an organist and director. Carol G. Dort (SMM ’71) is Director of Music at the Presbyterian Church in Garden City, LI, NY. F. Conrad Eaddy (MSM ’59) is still active, part time, directing the adult choir and coordinating the music program at Beymer Memorial United Methodist in Winter Haven, FL. Linda Wilberger Egan (SMM ’71) became Minister of Music of Pohick Church in January of 2006. Donna Dixon Ervin (SMM ’71) continues her music ministry at St. Martin’s Lutheran in Annapolis, MD and is taking post-graduate classes in early music at the University of Maryland. Sidney Huddell Feinstein (MSM ’72) is happily participating in the activities of the local Reformed Church, where she is a member. They have a well- maintained three manual instrument, the only fife organ in Hastings. Dr. John E. Floreen (MSM ’67) is a full Professor of Music at Rutgers University, at the campus at Newark, NJ. He is in his 27th year as Conductor of the Rutgers University Chorus. His wife, Susan McAdoo is Assistant Conductor, and both of them are enjoying the chorus and have made five international concert tours. He is also organist and choir director at First Lutheran Church in Clifton, NJ. Annabeth McClelland Gay (MSM ’49), after serving churches in Ohio, is retired now and living in Lincoln, NE. Raymond F. Glover (MSM ’54) retired in 2000 from Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria VA, and is now living in Richmond, VA. He remains busy as a workshop teacher, an emeritus faculty member at VTS and as Board Chair and faculty member of the VA leadership training program. C. Isabelle Hartman (MSM ’55) says she is “still retired…no fiddling…a little singing…” and getting much enjoyment from Yale news. Ramon L. Hass (SMM ’61) retired June 1, 2001, after 40 years as a Minister of Music in Columbus, IN. He continues an active music career as an organ sub, piano teacher, and accompanist. Kathleen Healy-Wedsworth (SMM ’65) is the Minister of Music at the 2,700 + member Presbyterian Church of Toms River, in Toms River NJ, where she has been since February 1999. Her husband, the Rev. Thomas Healy-Wedsworth, died in June, 2005. Michael R. Heintz (SMM ’65) recently concluded 35 years as organist/choirmaster at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Alexandria, VA. Robert W. Johnson (SMM ’63) retired from 2nd Church in Newton, U.C.C. in June of 2005. Winston A. Johnson (’51): graduated from his S.S.M. in New York City, after studying under the following professors: Dr. and Mrs. Clarence and Helen Dickinson, Robert Baker, Alfred Greenfield, Mrs. Neidlinger, etc. Under the USA Army, he studied the Bill of Rights; he served in USA Army from May 1942-March 1946. In Chicago he studied at the American Conservatory of Music. He won two organ contests: played Guilmant’s Organ Concerto in D-minor with SPM orchestra at Orchestra Hall, Chicago and also at the Society of American Musicians in recital at Kimball Hall, (which received very favorable comments in the Chicago newspapers), and played several organ concerts, many of them in the Midwest area. He taught music theory, organ, and piano in two colleges in Chicago, and beginning in 1951, in two music departments of colleges in Seattle for over 30 years. He served as Church Organist and Choir Director from 1932 into the 1990s – the main one at University Presbyterian Church in Seattle for 32 years. He has held several official positions in the Seattle AGO chapter, concluding as Dean. Paul E. Knox (MSM ’57) writes “This is my 62nd year on the bench,” where he is now playing and directing (part-time) at First Church Congregational, Fairfield, CT. Raymond J. Martin (MSM ’48, SMD ’63) is Professor of Music, Emeritus, at Agnes Scott College, in Decatur, GA. He is also Organist Emeritus at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, in Atlanta, GA. John D. McCoy (MSM ’50) is 81 years old and plays two services each Sunday. He is working with Carla Oliver –voted Most Outstanding Choral Director in the K.C. area. Doris S. Penick writes that her husband, R. Cochrane Penick (’33) passed away January 14, 2005. In 2001, Dr. Daniel G. Reuning (SMM ’60) was awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana, after which he founded the Bach Collegium-Fort Wayne, a community ensemble of 28 singers and 18 instrumentalists, of which he is the artistic director. William N. Robinson (MSM ’55) was Minister of Music at First Baptist Church-Clarksville, TN from 1957-63 and then at First Baptist Church Kingsport, TN from 1963-92. His wife, Mildred Cooper Robinson (MRE ’54), retired in 1992. William directs a string ensemble of 18 players, most of whom were his beginning students. Dr. K. Bernard Schade (’65) is Director of the Singing Boys of Pennsylvania. Mark Slegers (MSM ’72) has been Director of Music Ministries (for 29 years) at 1st Unitarian Church of Portland, OR “with 12 choirs – 3 adult choirs which I direct – Music Staff of 8 – accompanying and directing choirs – 300 singers and ringers in the program – largest in the denomination.” Willard E. Thomen (BM ’69) has been on the music faculty at Concordia University in River Forest, IL, for over 25 years teaching class and private voice; also six years at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, IL, where he teaches Our Musical Heritage and Exploring the Fine Arts classes as well as private voice. He just started as Director of Music at St. Luke Presbyterian Church in Downers Grove, IL, after 17 years as Director of Music Ministries in Naperville, IL, at the Community United Methodist Church. He has conducted 17 Messiah Sing Alongs. He moved to Joliet, close to the university, this past June. Nicholas A. Tino, Jr. (MSM ’73) currently holds three positions: Organist and Music Director, St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, Elizabeth, NJ; Organist and Director, Temple Sinai, Summit, NJ; and Church Organ Sales, Altenburg Piano House, Elizabeth, NJ. At 84, D. DeWitt Wasson (MSM ’47, DSM ’57) has given up reviewing in The American Organist. He served from the beginning of Music magazine and then in The American Organist. He no longer plays the organ, due to a foot ailment. Marcia K. Wilke (MSM ’61) has a small studio of ten piano students and continues to direct three handbell choirs – two at her church and one made up of homeschoolers. She is also studying piano and thoroughly enjoying it. Her son died last February from cancer. The Reverend James Elliott (his godfather and also an SMM 1961 graduate) celebrated his life at the funeral by officiating.
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