We’ve Gone

Digital!
P. 9

Foundations
of Choral
Tone
P. 12

How
Sound
Works
part 3
P. 25
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Contents
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d e pa rtm e nt s f e at u r e s

Advertisers’ Index. . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Florida Music Director Has Gone Digital.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

President’s Message. . . . . . . . . . . 5 Foundations of Choral Tone: A Proactive and Healthful
Approach to Vocal Technique and Choral Blend. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
NOTEables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Research Puzzles for
How Sound Works, Part 3
Music Teachers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 How Environment Affects Sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Component News.. . . . . . . . . . . 43 FMEA 2009 Hall of Fame Inductee.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Executive Director’s Notes.. . . . 46 FMEA 2009 Awards Presentations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Officers and Directors. . . . . . . . 47 FMEA 2009 Awards History. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

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Celebrate Success
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elcome to the Florida Music Director online edition. We are
very pleased to be able to present this quality publication Joe Luechauer
in an electronic format. Within this edition you will be able President—Florida Music
Educators’ Association
to see and experience the next generation of communication for our
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and video will bring a new appeal to our magazine.
We as an association have so much for which to be proud and thankful. As we let the dust
settle from our 2010 Clinic-Conference, I want to again thank each and every one of you for
your part in making “Music and the Creative Mind: Wired for Success” indeed a success. In
speaking with many of you in the hallways and in various rooms and corners, I heard about the
many creative avenues you used to attend this year. Everyone made sacrifices, and everyone
put their desire to be a part of our conference ahead of the multiple barriers cast in our way.
I would like to again thank our FMEA staff and volunteers for all of their efforts. The count-
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 NOTEables
11th Annual Central Florida

SaxFest
axophonists Chip McNeill and Frank Bongiorno
S will be this year’s guests at the 11th Annual Central
Florida SaxFest. The event will take place Saturday,
April 17, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Rehearsal Hall at the
University of Central Florida.
Chip McNeill served as the musical director and jazz tenor
saxophonist for GRAMMY award-winning recording artist
Arturo Sandoval and recorded with Arturo on his CD Americana
as well as on the GRAMMY award-winning release Hot House.
Mr. McNeill was also the musical director and jazz saxophonist
for legendary jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson. Mr. McNeill
produced, wrote and performed on six CDs with Ferguson. He
is currently an associate professor and chairman of jazz studies
at the University of Illinois.
Frank Bongiorno, professor of saxophone at the University
of North Carolina, Wilmington, and classical guitarist Robert
Nathanson form the Ryoanji Duo. They are champions of new
music and have commissioned award-winning composers such
as David Kechley, Marilyn Shrude, Ernesto García de León and
others to write for this unique chamber group. In addition, in
their search to further expand the repertoire for the duo, they
have transcribed and published select well-known classics by
Mozart, Handel, Villa-Lobos, Ravel, Fauré and other significant
composers of the past.
This day of saxophone activities will include clinics and per-
formances by the artists. Participants who are interested in a
saxophone ensemble reading band should bring their instru-
ments. For more information, visit the UCF saxophone Web site
at www.music.ucf.edu/sax.

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Florida Music Director
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Foundations of
Choral Tone
A Proactive and Healthful Approach to
Vocal Technique and Choral Blend
By Alan Zabriskie

H
Florida State University

ow is a desirable choral sound realized while achieving blend? Answering this question
became a priority during my first years as a choral director. This question likely vexes
other choral directors. Despite a conductor’s attempts to teach students to sing with
a full, rich, vibrant sound, a choir can still produce a sound that is young, thin and bright.
Although unified and free of tension, this tone can lack substance. Some efforts to develop
choral blend seem to interfere with the desired sound because the approach causes the more
advanced students to reduce resonance and fullness in order to match those singers who are
not as advanced. The resulting overall sound conforms to the young, thin, bright tone of the less
experienced singers.
A large majority of secondary choral directors do not have a systematized approach to teach-
ing vocal technique and choral tone. A systematic approach based on pedagogical literature
and the expertise of experienced voice teachers and choral directors is needed to improve the
overall sound of choral ensembles. Thus, a teaching approach was developed that introduces
new concepts of vocal technique in a proactive rather than reactive manner and that enables the

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majority of singers to sing with fullness, richness and
vibrancy. The same concepts used in the vocal tech-
nique area are then used to achieve a sense of blend
and ensemble.1
The approach is divided into two main areas: vocal
technique and choral blend. Each of the main areas
is also divided into main and sub concepts. Posture/
breath and resonance/placement are the main con-
cepts within the area of vocal technique. Within the
choral blend area, the main concepts include vowel
unification/modification and tone quality. Specific
vocal exercises are used throughout the approach
to teach each concept to the singers. Additionally,
strategies are included for addressing the needs of
advanced and beginning singers within the same les-
son. The teaching approach has been used and found
to be highly effective in middle school, high school,
university and church choir settings.

Vocal Technique
Posture and Breath
Achieving proper posture and effective breath man-
agement is the first priority in the teaching approach.
Instruction in the approach emphasizes five elements
of posture including proper head alignment, continu-
ous expansion of the ribcage, shoulders pulled back
and down, feet placed comfortably apart and the spi-
nal column kept as straight as possible by rolling the
buttocks forward (see Figure 1). Effective breath man-
agement is accomplished through the use of Donald
Neuen’s2 five-week series of instruction for establish-
ing proper breath management. This instruction
allows the singers to learn to manage the expansion/
contraction of the abdominal wall from a slow pace
in the beginning of the series and building to a more
rapid pace at the end. In addition, two Italian breath
management terms are introduced: appogio and lotta
vocale, which aid in the maintenance of proper pos-
ture and the correct use of the abdominal muscles to
establish proper breath management.
Continued on page 14

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Foundations of
Choral Tone
Figure 1

Continued from page 13

Demonstration of
Resonance and Placement
Proper Postural
In interviews with successful choral con- Alignment
ductors and voice teachers, the achieve-
ment of balanced, resonant space and
proper placement was identified as the
highest priority in achieving proper vocal
technique and a desirable choral sound.
One voice teacher stated that students
first must learn to use their resonant spac-
es. She suggested accomplishing this by
having the students sing [ŋ] (as in “sing”).3
Once students are able to use their reso-
nant spaces, another voice teacher indi-
cated that a balanced resonance must be
sought and achieved: “It’s a chiaroscuro
situation so that you have a balance of
both light and dark sound.”4
Thus, to establish proper resonance
space, the singers are taught the locations
of the naso-pharynx, the oro-pharynx and
the laryngo-pharynx and are instructed The singers also receive instruction use terms that are strictly for vocal use.
regarding achievement of proper space regarding proper placement of the sound To develop the chiaro (bright or forward)
with the oro- and laryngo-pharynxes and within the oral cavity. The vocal pedago- sound, the [n] consonant is used in con-
creating sensations of vibration within gy terms chiaro and oscuro are introduced junction with the [i] (as in “me”) and [e]
the naso-pharynx (see Figure 2). in place of the words bright and dark to (as in “may”) vowels.

1: Resonance
1: Resonance
VIDEO
VIDEO Figure 2 Location of
Resonance
Areas

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 SOUND CLIP 1: Chiaro

VIDEO 2: Chiaro

Following are two exercise

examples for chiaro placement:
Exercise 1
SOUND
SOUND CLIP 1: Oscuro
CLIP 2: Chiaro

VIDEO 2: Oscuro
VIDEO 3: Chiaro
Exercise 2

The oscuro (dark or round) tone quality is achieved

through an open [ŋ] (as in “sing”) sound sung
with the mouth open and through vowels [u] (as in
“moon”) and [o] (as in “note”).
Following is an exercise example for oscuro place-
ment:
Exercise 3

Continued on page 16

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Foundations of Choral Tone
Continued from page 15

VIDEO 4: Placement Meter

The balanced chiaroscuro sound is
achieved by working for a somewhat
centered placement of the sound while
maintaining proper resonant space. A
physical activity that is helpful in finding
the proper balance is a “placement meter.”

Placement Meter
The finger is placed at the side of the
mouth and is directed toward the intend-
ed placement (i.e., forward for the chiaro
placement, backward for the oscuro place-
ment and straight up for the chiaroscuro
placement).

Placement
Meter

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Once the proper sensation is achieved through use
of the placement meter, the [hʌŋ] (“hung”) syllable
SOUND
SOUND
CLIP 3: Chiaroscuro
CLIP 1: Chiaro
combined with the [a] (as in “hot”) vowel achieves
the desired quality. Following are two exercise
examples for the chiaroscuro placement: VIDEO 5: Chiaroscuro
VIDEO 2: Chiaro

Exercise 4

Exercise 5

Continued on page 18

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Foundations of Choral Tone
Continued from page 17

The mastery of placement of chiaro, oscuro and the balanced chiaroscuro is an important aspect of the vocal technique of
the singers for the alteration of tone quality discussed below.

Choral Blend and Alteration of Tone Quality

Vowels
General unification and modification become familiar with IPA vowel sym- lables are divided into primary and
of vowels are also used as a health- bols, the proper vowel sounds for each vanish vowels. When singing a sus-
ful means for achieving choral blend. word are more easily established and tained note, a majority of time is spent
Vowels are colored bright or dark as agreed upon throughout the ensemble. on the primary vowel, with the vanish
required by the type of music being Diphthongs (words with two or more vowel occurring at the ictus of a cut-off
sung. Lip position plays a large part vowel sounds in one syllable) present a or the entrance of the following word.
in the quality of vowels created. The difficult challenge for achieving vowel Following is an example of the IPA
most commonly created vowel color is unification. To achieve unification of symbols and occurrence of the proper
produced with loose, relaxed lips with vowels when singing diphthongs, syl- vowel symbols:
the tongue pinned forward to the back
of the bottom teeth. Lip position is then Exercise 6
altered to create differences in sound
quality.
Vowel unification is achieved
through the use of the International
Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). As students

VIDEO 6: Modification Ascend

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 VIDEO 7: Modification Ascend
Additionally, as pitches ascend and descend,
vowels must be modified to create an evenness
of tone quality throughout the range. Without
modification, a reduction of the oscuro place-
ment occurs as pitches ascend. To accommodate
this, when ascending, vowels should become
more open and placement should be directed
more toward the oscuro. A reduction of the chiaro
placement occurs as pitches descend; there-
fore, when descending, vowels should become
more closed and placement should be directed
more toward the chiaro. The following exercise
indicates the appropriate means of modifying
vowels:

Exercise 7

Continued on page 20

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Foundations of Choral Tone
Continued from page 19

Tone Quality

Addressing the alteration of tone quality in a healthful manner is important for both the achievement of choral
blend and for meeting the stylistic requirements of different styles of music. Tone quality is most healthfully
altered by placing the sound toward five different resonance areas or Resonance Factors5:
Resonance Factor 1: The chiaro tone quality that employs full forward placement. This Resonance Factor is
used when the brightest sound is desired.
Resonance Factor 2: Placement between chiaro and chiaroscuro. This Resonance Factor is used when the
desired placement is forward, but not as bright as the chiaro.
Resonance Factor 3: The chiaroscuro, or balanced tone quality. This Resonance Factor is a balance of the chiaro
and oscuro tone qualities.
Resonance Factor 4: Placement between chiaroscuro and oscuro. This Resonance Factor is used when the
desired placement is backward, but not as dark as the oscuro.
Resonance Factor 5: The oscuro tone quality that employs full backward placement. This Resonance Factor is
used when the darkest sound is desired.7

Having worked with place-

ment for several weeks within
the approach, when the stu-
dents are asked to produce
the different resonance fac-
tors, they easily make the
change with dramatic, health-
ful results, especially through
the use of the placement
meter.
In addition, use of an X/Y
graph6 serves to specify the
extent of lyric/dramatic and
chiaro/oscuro for a given piece.
Conductor and singers are
able to discuss the stylistic
characteristics of each piece
and plot a point together that
indicates the desired place-
ment (chiaro/oscuro) according
to the above mentioned reso-
nance factors and the overall
depth of sound (lyric/dra-
matic).

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 Foundations
of Choral
Tone
Continued from page 20

Conclusion
The purpose of the teaching approach was to aid in the devel-
opment of a choral sound that was full, rich and vibrant
while still achieving blend. As areas of vocal technique and
choral blend are addressed in a systematic, proactive manner,
a desirable choral sound and blend can be achieved.
Introducing the students to new vocabulary for vocal tech-
nique enables them to quickly grasp the intended concepts.
As students master the chiaro and the oscuro and balanced
chiaroscuro placement areas, proper vocal technique is the
result. These terms also provide specific tools for the students
to alter their individual tone qualities in a healthful manner
without eliminating individualities of their own voices. Thus,
this systematic approach that uses a new and proactive
vocabulary for vocal technique creates a choral sound that is
full, rich and vibrant as well as malleable for the singing of
varying styles of music.

References
Allred, Caroline. Interview by Author, Salt Lake City, UT, 26 November
2004. Digital recording.
Haasemann, Frauke, and James Jordan. Group Vocal Technique—The
Book. Chapel Hill: Hinshaw Music, Inc., 1991.
Miller, Richard. The Structure of Singing: System and Art in Vocal
Technique. New York: Schirmer Books, 1986.
Neuen, Donald. Choral Concepts. New York: Schirmer, 2002.
Ottley, Jerold and JoAnn. Interview by Author, Salt Lake City, UT, 26
November 2004. Digital recording.
Power, David. Interview by Author, Salt Lake City, UT, 10 November
2004. Digital recording.

Endnotes
1.
The teaching approach with lessons for each concept and further
explanation have been published in a book Foundations of Choral
Tone: A Proactive and Healthy Approach to Vocal Technique and Choral
Blend. Books can be purchased from Beethoven & Company, (877)
543-8700 or www.amazon.com.
2.
Donald Neuen, Choral Concepts (New York: Schirmer, 2002).
3.
Caroline Allred, interview by author, Salt Lake City, UT, 26
November 2004.
4.
David Power, interview by author, Salt Lake City, UT, 10 November
2004.
5.
Gerald and Joanne Ottley, interview by author, Salt Lake City, UT, 26
November 2004.
6.
Brian Bentley, interview by author, Salt Lake City, UT, 12 November
2004.
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Reprinted from TMEC Connection, Fall 2007, Vol. 22, No. 1

This is the final installment of a series of illustrated articles designed for music teachers and
students who want to explore the science behind music.

How Sound Works

part 3

How Environment
Affects Sound

m
By Dave Sebald, Ph.D.

any physical explanations of how sound works limit their

coverage to the parameters discussed in the previous article
of this series, that is, frequency, amplitude, waveform and
time. While these parameters provide a basic theoretical framework for understand-
ing the physical nature of sound, what actually reaches our ears is not quite so cleanly
described. In reality, the sound we hear is complicated by the environment in which
it travels. Even when we listen to music through isolating headphones, environmental
factors are almost always present in the form of artificially produced reverbs, choruses,
delays, equalizers and similar audio processors. This sonic sweetening is added to
make the sound more “real,” or at least not unpleasantly dry and characterless.
The major environmental factor affecting sound as it travels from source to receiver
is the presence of physical obstacles. Except for experimental situations, people always
experience sound in a setting that contains some kind of barriers: walls, ceilings,
objects or perhaps just the ground beneath their feet. Whatever the obstructions are,
they greatly affect the sound the listener receives.

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 How Sound Works Continued from page 25

When a sound wave meets a barrier, only a few things can happen to it. It can be
transmitted through the barrier; it can be absorbed by the barrier; it can be reflected by the
barrier; it can be diffracted around the barrier; and/or it can be refracted (its direction of
travel bent) through the barrier. In all likelihood, most or all of these things will happen
simultaneously to a greater or lesser degree depending on the type and composition of
the barrier. Here are a few specifics:
Transmission and Absorption Reflection
Although we think of air as only a trans- When sound waves hit a barrier, the
mitter of sound, it is also an absorber. energy that is not absorbed or transmitted
As sound waves travel, the mechanical through the material is reflected. Both the
energy present in their compressions size of the environment and the place-
and rarefactions eventually transforms ment of the listener affect the time delay
into heat energy and dissipates. (That’s between perception of the direct sound
lucky for us, or it would be a cacopho- and the first reflection. If the time delay
nous world!) Conversely, barriers that is short, the effect is that of a “fatter”
we think of as absorbers of sound are sound—another phenomenon that many
also transmitters. The difference is only current recording engineers like to emu-
a matter of degree. late. As the delay grows beyond about 30

Representation of Sound Waves in Air (left) Entering a Solid (right)

Some of the energy is transmitted while some is transformed into heat. Notice that even though
the waves in the solid are spaced farther apart, they are traveling faster so the frequency remains
the same.

Sound absorption is greater for high-
frequency sounds than for low-frequency
sounds. In air, the loss of energy through
absorption alone—that is, not counting
loss caused by other factors like distance
and humidity—is proportional to the
square of the frequency. In other words,
for each doubling of frequency, absorp-
tion quadruples. Knowing this, recording
engineers often reduce the amplitude on
the upper end of the sound’s frequency
spectrum to make its source seem farther
away.
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milliseconds, the effect becomes a more
distinct echo. Our brains can quite accu-
rately infer the size of the environment
from this initial delay.
Incidentally, solid objects are not the
only type of barriers that cause sound
reflection. The change of impedance, or
springiness, at the end of an enclosed
tube of air also reflects traveling compres-
sions and rarefactions back up the tube.
At some point along this air column, the
traveling initial wave and the traveling
reflected wave meet with a 180-degree
phase differential. This is a node point
where the pressure is effectively at zero
all the time. At another point along the
tube, an antinode point, the two waves
reinforce each other for maximum pres-
sure changes. In woodwind instruments,
a small vent at this point will force the
air column to vibrate in parts, effectively
moving its vibration frequency to the next
higher harmonic. Representation of Sound Waves Traveling Past the Edge of a Wall
In an auditorium or any other per-
formance environment, echoes and re-
echoes continue to bounce from the back
wall, the side walls, ceiling, floor, seats
and any other objects so many times that
what we hear morphs from echo into
reverberation. The length of the rever-
beration, that is, the time it takes to fade
by 60 dB, allows our brains to infer the
“liveness” of the environment or, in other
words, an image of the room’s size, con- Waves tend to reform after the barrier. Long waves reform better than short waves.
figuration and barrier materials. A certain
amount of reverberation is a necessary
part of a pleasurable listening experience Refraction Conclusion
although too much can be confusing and As was mentioned in Part 1 of this series, Investigating human perception of sound
annoying, as anyone who has listened to sound waves travel at different speeds can be a highly complex study, but that
a marching band in an enclosed stadium through different media, yet the frequen- study can be made easier and more mean-
can verify. cy we hear remains the same. This implies ingful by acquiring a basic understanding
that as sound energy transfers from one of how sound works outside the human
Diffraction material into and through another, its organism, that is, measurable, physical
Unlike light waves, sound waves can dif- wavelength changes. For example, a 1000 acoustics as opposed to perceptual psy-
fract, that is, bend around corners. This Hz tone, which has a wavelength of 1.128 choacoustics. While by no means exhaus-
is because a pressure disturbance of air feet as it travels through air, will sud- tive, this series of articles has tried to
molecules tends to spread in all direc- denly have a wavelength of 4.75 feet when present an overview of some well estab-
tions. If a traveling wave passes the edge it hits water. If a wave hits a barrier at an lished basic principles related to physical
of a wall, some of its energy at the edge angle, the speed change forces a direc- acoustics in an attempt to build a frame-
spreads around the corner rather than tional change commonly called refrac- work for a deeper investigation of how
continuing in a straight trajectory. This is tion. It is the same phenomenon as seeing sound and music affect us all.
more pronounced for long waves than for a pencil “bend” when it is immersed in a
short waves, so a person standing behind glass of water.
a barrier will notice more attenuation of Even a difference in air temperature Dave Sebald, Ph.D.,
high sounds than of low sounds. This, is enough to cause a slight refraction of is associate professor
of course, affects timbre perception of sound waves because sound travels faster of music and director
complex waveforms. It is also why place- at higher temperatures and slower at low of the music technol-
ment of a subwoofer in an audio room is temperatures. Under the right conditions, ogy program at The
of less importance than placement of a this can cause a listener farther away University of Texas at
mid-range and high-range speaker; the from a sound source to hear it better than San Antonio.
low sound is perceived as less directional. one who is closer.
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28 Florida Music Director
 FMEA 2009 Hall of Fame Inductee
This prestigious award honors individuals for outstanding contributions over an extended period of time to
music and education in Florida as well as throughout the nation.

Congratulations to A. Byron Smith,

2010 Hall of Fame inductee

A. Byron Smith was born Dec. 18, 1943,
the third child of Audie and Adelaide
Smith of Tallahassee. He was educated
in the Leon County Schools through the
12th grade and received a B.M.E. from
Florida State University in 1966. He taught
choral music at Rickards High School
from August 1966 through June 1975.
He moved to Lincoln High School upon
its opening, serving as choral director
from 1975 until his retirement in June
1996. Throughout his career, Dr. Smith
consistently received superior ratings at
district and state choral festivals as well
as regional and national choral festivals.
He produced 22 Broadway shows and
annually conducted his choirs in festivals
and numerous concerts, including at St.
Patrick’s Cathedral and Carnegie Hall in
New York City. In the summer of 1983, he
conducted the Florida Youth Chorale in
concerts in Holland, Germany, London
and the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
During the early years at Rickards, Dr.
Smith served two terms as district choral
chairman. In 1970, he received a cer-
tificate of voice and an M.M. from Florida
State University.
From 1981 to 1987, Dr. Smith served
FVA as president-elect, president and vice
president. In 1985, he received the doc-
tor of education in music education from
Florida State University. At the comple-
tion of his leadership term with FVA, he
was elected by FMEA to serve as presi-
dent-elect, president and vice president
from 1987 through 1993. From August
through December 1994, he served as
interim executive director of FMEA,
keeping the Tallahassee office together
while the leadership searched for a new
executive director and planned the 1995
In-Service Clinic-Conference. From 1995
through 1998, he served as treasurer of
FMEA. From 1992 through 1998, Dr. Smith
was the coordinator of the annual Florida
Youth Chorale performances in Carnegie
Hall, conducted by world-famous choral
conductors.
In 1996, he was named Teacher of the
Year at Lincoln High School and FMEA
Music Educator of the Year. The Florida
Collegiate MENC named him to its Hall
of Fame in 1998, and he was awarded
the FMEA Leadership Award in Music
Education in 1999.
From 1993 until 1996, Byron and Bobbie
Smith managed the registration desk for
the FMEA conference, specializing in
“problem solving.”
Dr. Smith was married to his FSU col-
lege sweetheart, Bobbie, in 1965. They
have two married sons and four grand-
children (Kevin and Valerie with son
Cooper Aaron and daughter Colby Ann,
and Chris and Tammy with daughters
Abigail Leigh and Christina Grace).
From 1962 through 1981, Dr. Smith
served as choir director at numerous
Baptist churches in the Tallahassee area.
From 1981 through 1998, he served as the
part-time director of music at Killearn
United Methodist Church. In addition to
the traditional service music, he produced
13 dinner theaters, raising over $20,000
for the choir ministry of the church. He
became full time in that position in 1998
until his retirement in October 2009.
During those years, that ministry included
a 65-voice adult choir, a mixed ensemble, a
men’s quartet and a 25-piece orchestra.
Bobbie served faithfully with him in those
ministries for 46 years.
Dr. Smith is a member of Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia and Phi Kappa Delta. He has
served as clinician for numerous county
choral clinics, and he conducted the
Florida All-State Women’s Chorus in 2000.
In his retirement, he continues to serve as
an adjudicator for district and state choral
evaluation festivals in the southeast
region.
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FMEA 2009 Awards Presentations
Superintendent of the Year
The FMEA Superintendent of the Year designation is awarded to the Florida
school district superintendent who is not a professional music educator,
but has displayed ardent support of his or her district’s school music
programs. This award recognizes leadership, excellence in encouragement
and promotion of music education in Florida schools. The recipient must
have demonstrated significant efforts in support of music education
resulting in awareness or enhancement of the county music program.
Congratulations to Superintendent
Michael A. Grego from Osceola County;
nominated by John Stewart on behalf of
Osceola County music teachers.
Michael A. Grego, Ed.D., began work
as superintendent for the School District
of Osceola County in July 2008, having
come from Hillsborough County, where he
served as an assistant superintendent
of curriculum and instruction. Dr. Grego
attended the State University of New York for his undergraduate degree
followed by a master’s of education from Illinois State University. His
educational leadership and doctoral degrees were earned at the University
of South Florida.
In just a very short time, Dr. Grego has implemented numerous programs
in Osceola County that have resulted in increased levels of student
achievement, improved teacher training and resources and increased
levels of community collaboration and communication. Despite the
most challenging budget cuts Osceola County has ever seen, Dr. Grego’s
commitment to music education has not just sustained but strengthened
programs at all levels. Dr. Grego is certainly a champion for the arts in
Osceola County.
Music Educators of the Year
The Music Educator of the Year designation is awarded to the music
educator who has served his or her students, community and profession in
an exemplary manner. This award recognizes outstanding merit in music
teaching. The recipient must have demonstrated notable achievements as
a music education professional for 10 or more years.
Congratulations to Secondary Music
Educator of the Year Ree Nathan,
recently retired choral director from
Central Middle School in Brevard
County; nominated by Beth Cummings
on behalf of FVA.
Ree Nathan received her A.A. in music
from Graceland College and went on to
attain a B.M. degree from the University
of Akron. Her educational leadership
degree was granted from Nova Southeastern University. She started her
teaching career at Holland Elementary School but soon after moved on
to teach choral music at the middle school level. After a two-year term
at Stone Middle School, Ms. Nathan spent 31 years teaching the choral
program at Central Middle School in Brevard County, where she was named
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Teacher of the Year in 1986, 1996 and 2009. She is a certified adjudicator
for FVA MPAs.
Ms. Nathan is a role model for her peers and an inspiration to her
students. She combines structure and discipline with love and concern as
she challenges those around her to put forth their best. Her choral program
ranks among the top in Florida, with her choirs consistently earning
superior ratings at FVA MPAs. She exemplifies responsible leadership in
her district and in FVA by serving in many different capacities. Her great
strength of character is proven as she handles all situations with dignity
and with delightful humor. Although Ms. Nathan is recently retired from
the classroom, she volunteers at the district level and in classrooms
throughout Brevard County on a regular basis. She is a tremendous asset
to music education.
Congratulations to Elementary Music
Educator of the Year LuAnne Leone,
music teacher at Embassy Creek
Elementary School in Broward County;
nominated by Robert Todd on behalf of
FEMEA.
LuAnne Leone is the music specialist
at Embassy Creek Elementary School
in Cooper City, Fla. With her decorated
career spanning over two decades, she
has taught both elementary and middle school students in Broward County.
She holds a B.M. degree from West Virginia University and is national board
certified in early middle childhood music.
Ms. Leone is a powerful force in the field of music education. Her passion
for children and her dedication to the music profession are evidenced
by the many initiatives and projects in which she is involved throughout
the community, county, state and nation. Her leadership in the Broward
Music Educators Association has played a key role in the advancement of
music education in Broward County and the creation and implementation
of revolutionary ideas in delivery of instruction and assessment. She
continues to mentor new music educators, tutor field experience students
and supervise student teachers, thereby expanding the scope and sequence
of education. At the state level, she has proudly served as District I
chairwoman, FEMEA president-elect, president and past president.
Distinguished Service
The Distinguished Service designation is awarded to persons or
organizations outside the field of professional music education. This
award recognizes exceptional service to or support of music education. The
recipient(s) must have demonstrated noteworthy contributions to music
education with statewide impact preferred.
Congratulations to Andrea Barr and Tyrone Ramos of Apple Inc.;
nominated by Janice Lancaster.
The Hands-On Music Technology Lab has been a huge success each
year since its inaugural implementation at the 2007 FMEA In-Service
Clinic-Conference. One of the key vendors for the lab has been Apple
Inc., with services provided by two of its outstanding employees, Andrea
Barr and Tyrone Ramos. Without their computers, support and time, the
conference technology lab would not have been possible. Their dedication
to the success of this project began with an enthusiastic “yes” to an initial
request for 20 computers from Apple for the 2007 conference. At the 2009
conference, Apple provided 30 computer workstations to accommodate the
large number of participants attending the Technology Lab. In addition
to gathering and delivering computers, Ms. Barr and Mr. Ramo set up the
workstations in the lab and load software as well as provide support during
the conference. In addition, they present sessions and share their software/
hardware expertise throughout the conference.
Andrea Barr is a senior account representative for
Apple Computer in Central Florida. She brings over
nine years of experience with Apple, four of which
are in education technology integration. She holds
a B.A. in liberal arts from State University of New
York, Purchase.
Tyrone Ramos, Jr., is a senior systems engineer for
Apple Inc. for Central and South Florida. He brings
14 years of experience in education technology
integration. He holds a B.S. degree in computer
science from Loyola College in Maryland.
Leadership
The Leadership designation is awarded to an individual who demonstrates
outstanding and sustained skill in a leadership or an administrative
capacity and who carries the mission of FMEA forward throughout the
state and/or the nation. The recipient must have demonstrated notable
achievements as a leader in promotion of music education and a continued
commitment to the profession.
Congratulations to Michael Parks, fine
arts/instrumental music resource
teacher with Orange County Public
Schools; nominated by Heather Burdick.
As a graduate of Colonial High School
in Orlando, Michael Parks is a product
of the Orange County school system
that he serves. He holds a B.A., with
an emphasis in music education, from
Florida Technological University and an
M.E., with an emphasis in music education, from the University of Central
Florida. Mr. Parks has served as the fine arts/music resource teacher for
the Orange County Public Schools for the past 19 years. He has also served
as an adjunct professor at both the University of Central Florida and the
University of South Florida. In addition, he is an adjudicator for district
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FMEA 2009 Awards Presentations
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and state MPAs. In 1999, he was inducted into the Florida Collegiate MENC
Hall of Fame for his exemplary work with college music students. Mr. Parks
has been invited to conduct both all-county and All-State bands and
orchestras.
Mr. Parks has shown outstanding leadership in building quality music
programs in Central Florida and has inspired students and teachers to
build quality music programs throughout the state. He works with people
on each step of the career ladder to ensure that music programs are of
the highest quality. He mentors college students on interviewing for their
first jobs and on becoming quality teachers. He then works with principals,
sending them resumes and helping on both sides of the interview process
to find the best candidates. Once teachers are hired, Mr. Parks connects
each one to a mentor, comes out personally to watch them teach, offers
feedback and gets to know each one as a person. For veteran teachers,
he sends frequent memos and bulletins that inspire and guide teachers
through the ups and downs of the school year. Mr. Parks inspires the
directors to think big about clinicians for the all-county performances and
then secures the resources to have top-quality conductors come to Orange
County to serve as mentors for both directors and students. He attends
every MPA in the district to know firsthand where the directors’ strengths
and weaknesses are in an effort to provide support and resources to all
schools throughout the county. When Mr. Parks’ colleague Carolyn Minear
left to further her studies, the requirements and demands of his job
description grew significantly. How would he possibly serve all of the music
teachers in one of the largest school systems in the county? In the true art
of leadership, Mr. Parks had fostered the leadership skills within his own
music educators in Orange County so that he was able to successfully meet
the challenge.
College Music Educators
The College Music Educators designation is awarded to a college music
educator who has served his or her students, community and profession in
an exemplary manner. The award recognizes outstanding merit in college-
level music teaching or music administration. The recipient must have
demonstrated notable achievements as a music education professional for
10 or more years.
Congratulations to Dr. Joy Galliford from
the University of Miami; nominated by
LuAnne Leone on behalf of FEMEA.
Joy Galliford, Ph.D., is a lecturer and
researcher for the University of Miami
Frost School of Music. A native of
Reedville, W.V., Dr. Galliford attended the
University of Miami, where she received a
bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. in music
education. She is well known as Dr. Joy in
South Florida, where she teaches students ranging in age from birth to 92.
Her intense striving for excellence is demonstrated in every aspect of
Dr. Galliford’s life. She has proven herself as an educator and a mentor
not only in the classroom but in such public settings as director of music
for Kendall United Methodist Church, concert host for the Mainly Mozart
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Concert Series and assisting the underserved internationally.
Dr. Galliford’s notable achievements have a great impact on music
educators across the state and the thousands of students they teach. She
has been an active member of MENC, FMEA and FEMEA throughout her
distinguished career. She actively participates in the FEMEA Elementary
Curriculum Fair, outlining best practices, current research and early
childhood trends each year at the FMEA Annual In-Service Clinic-
Conference. Dr. Galliford regularly submits session proposals and has
been hailed as one of FEMEA’s strongest clinicians year in and year out.
Her contributions and commitment to the profession are inspirational. Dr.
Galliford’s passion for Florida’s youngest musicians resonates through the
many projects she has piloted and continues to supervise in her community
and beyond. In January 2009, she arranged for several Miami families to
travel to the FEMEA convention in Tampa so that Florida teachers could
experience a “demonstration group” of 6-year-old students.
Innovative Projects
The Innovative Program/Project designation is awarded to an individual
or a group for meritorious, innovative programs or projects completed in
the field of music education. The selected program/project should have a
significant, positive impact on students, music educators and/or the
state/community.
Congratulations to Mariner Middle School in Lee County for the
Secondary Innovative Project “Reading Comes Alive With the
Sound of Music”; nominated by band director Gaetano Ferlazzo.
At the conclusion of the 2005-2006 school year, Gaetano Ferlazzo,
band director at Mariner Middle School, decided to commission music
written for the Mariner Middle School band program. His idea that year
has evolved into a four-year program to commission new music each year.
Each individual project has a specific theme or idea for an interdisciplinary
unit. During the 2008-2009 school year, the commissioned music was part
of a project between the band and eighth grade language art teachers.
Darcy Jackson and Pamela Harmon, eight grade language arts teachers,
selected The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi for all eighth grade
students to read and study. Composer Jason K. Nitsch was commissioned
to write a descriptive piece of music that followed the sequence of events
in the novel. He delivered the music, The Improbable Journey, in January,
and the advanced band began learning the piece that was presented to
the entire eighth grade in May. The students were asked to analyze the
music according to the setting, characters and plot of the novel they had
read earlier in the year. The language arts students wrote a review of the
concert. The music stretched the imaginations and the mental images that
music can produce in each student’s mind.
Gaetano Ferlazzo has been a band director in Florida for over 26 years. As
a graduate of the University of Miami, Mr. Ferlazzo has taught at the high
school and middle school levels. Darcy Jackson has taught language arts
for 24 years in Florida, and Pamela Harmon has taught language arts for
the past six years after 25 years in the health-care industry.
Congratulations to Gene Witt Elementary in Manatee County and music
teacher Julie Hebert for the Elementary Innovative Project “Witt Music
All-Nighter”; nominated by Anita Travaglino on behalf of FEMEA.
The Witt Music All-Nighter is an annual reward party for members of the
Eagle Choir and the Gene Witt Orffestra. The All-Nighter is a themed music
party at school that lasts all night long! Themes have included Caribbean,
African, Asian and American music as well as a jungle theme. The event
is a reward for satisfactory behavior, good citizenship and attendance at
rehearsals and performances. The young musicians are rewarded for their
hard work and commitment to the ensembles. Since implementing the
All-Nighter, the choir has grown from 50 members to 120 members in four
years. Music teacher Julie Herbert used to have a difficult time recruiting
boys to be in choir, but since implementing the All-Nighter, one-third of the
choir members are now boys. The evening is structured so that students
and parents rotate through various music centers. Each center focuses
on one activity that is planned around the All-Nighter theme. Examples of
some of the centers that have been offered are music games, black light
fun, movement/dance, singing, Orff instruments, recorders and drama.
Music colleagues from throughout the surrounding counties volunteer
to facilitate a center. The All-Nighter offers parents a way to participate
in hands-on music making with their children since the chaperones are
encouraged to participate in the center activities. In addition, the students
benefit from the expertise of the guest music facilitators in each center.
The Witt-Music All Nighter is not just a fun, motivating and rewarding
event; it is an educational and enriching opportunity for students and
adults alike. In addition, this event attracts plenty of positive public
recognition for the school and the music program. Parents state that their
children who have been involved express a keen interest in continuing in a
music program at the middle school level.
Julie Hebert has been teaching elementary music in Manatee and
Sarasota counties for 11 years. She received her B.M.E. from the University
of Central Florida in 1999 and her M.E. in educational leadership from the
University of South Florida in 2009. Ms. Hebert is a national board certified
teacher and serves as the District II chairwoman on the FEMEA Board.
Administrator of the Year
The Administrator of the Year designation is awarded to a school
administrator who is not a professional music educator but who displays
ardent support of the school’s music program. This award recognizes
leadership, excellence in encouragement and promotion of music education
in Florida schools. The recipient must have demonstrated significant efforts
in support of music education resulting in awareness or enhancement of
the school’s music program and allocation of resources.
Congratulations to Mark Alan
Tormoen from Viera High School
in Brevard County; nominated by
Wayne Bresette.
Mark Alan Tormoen is principal
of Viera High School in Viera, Fla.
He holds a B.S. degree (1990)
and an M.E. (1995) from the
University of Central Florida. He
served as principal of Clearlake
Middle School for four years before
opening Viera High School in 2005.
Viera High School has been ranked academically in the top 20 high schools
in the state based on FCAT for the past three years in a row.
Mr. Tormoen had an early vision of a comprehensive, successful music
program, which became a reality due to the unwavering support of his
teachers and students. His expectation was to involve a large portion of
the student population and to develop a music program that was a primary
source of school spirit and pride. As the school was being built, the music
program was already off and running with proper staffing, equipment,
music and community support in place. Viera High School opened with
900 students and two instructors teaching 110 students enrolled in two
band classes, two string orchestra classes, a jazz band, three choirs and
two piano classes. Viera High School is now home to 2,000 students and
boasts three full-time instructors teaching more than 400 students in
three concert bands, three jazz bands, a string orchestra, a full symphony
orchestra, instrumental techniques, AP Music Theory, four choirs, a piano
course and American Musical Theatre. Students testify that Mr. Tormoen
never misses a performance, taking a front row seat. The next day he can
be found stopping students in the hallways to compliment them on their
improvised jazz solos.
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FMEA 2009 Awards Presentations

Twenty-Five Year Service Award

The Twenty-Five Year Service designation is awarded to music educators Apollo Elementary School Osceola Elementary School
who have been active in music education for 25 years or more. This award Principal: Dr. Pamella R. O’Kell Principal: Susan Roberts
recognizes the outstanding service of our members who have committed Music Teacher: Sheila King Music Teacher: Janine Jones
themselves to this profession for most of their adult lives. This year, we will Davenport School of the Arts Southwest Middle School
celebrate 412 total years of teaching among the following honorees: Principal: Brian Kier Principal: Todd Scheuerer
Beth K. Amato...................................................................................32 years Music Teachers: Mary Anne Suggs, Music Teachers: Andrea Boley,
Greg Carswell....................................................................................33 years Kyle Guira, Kendra Menzie, Tamara Lewis, Dr. Thomas Silliman,
DaLaine Chapman............................................................................25 years Sarah Smokay Michael Sperr
George Eloys, Jr.................................................................................34 years Discovery Elementary School
Dr. Joy Galliford.................................................................................26 years
Erma L. Gillian..................................................................................43 years
Principal: Dawna Bobersky Honorable Mention
Music Teachers: Cindy Dain, Sabal Elementary School
Hannah V. Heffington........................................................................25 years Rebekah Villanueva Principal: Stephanie Hall
Gail Jacobs........................................................................................26 years
Manatee Elementary School Music Teachers: Michelle Couch,
Denise Corradino Legan....................................................................26 years
Principal: Carl Brown Michelle Hudson, Tim Ashe
Karen A. Lewis...................................................................................26 years
Shirley A. Miller.................................................................................26 years Music Teacher: Sharon Lester
Tammy Roggen..................................................................................25 years Oak Park Elementary School
Sandy Rosengren..............................................................................28 years Principal: Ronald Dedmon
Sheryl R. Shafer................................................................................37 years Music Teacher: Mary Jackson

Middle/High School Music Enrollment Awards

The Middle and High School Music Enrollment Award is presented to music programs demonstrating high enrollment in
music courses. This award recognizes the effectiveness of programs that offer attractive music curricula as well as those
that excel in the recruitment and retention of students. Schools hold the award for three years. They may be looked to as
models of quality programming, scheduling, recruitment and retention of students.
Surfside Middle School.........35% Indian Trails Middle Fruit Cove Middle School......49% McLaughlin Middle School and
Michelle Birdwell – Band School...................................43% Don Isabelle – Band Fine Arts Academy................65%
Fred Mullen – Chorus Stephanie Hart – Chorus Jeff Staffaroni – Keyboard, Chorus Lisa Walker – Band
Coleman Middle School........36% Monique McIntyre – Band & Musical Theater David Fisher – Guitar
Christopher Dunn – Band Williams IB Middle School....43% Blankner School....................53% Gian Monacelli – Orchestra
Ed Thanz – Orchestra Robert Halczyn – Orchestra Courtney Coker – Band Seth Pendergast – Chorus

Calvary Christian Leslie Wolfe – Band Maudrie Sleming – Chorus Keswick Christian School ....66%
Academy................................37% Woodland Middle School.......43% Gotha Middle School.............55% Steve Harris – Band
James Mullen – Band Seth Gardner – Guitar & Chorus Jodi Wunsch – Band Chanda Mangiaracina – Chorus
Monica Colon – Chorus David Wing – Band & Keyboard Edith Young – Chorus St. Joseph Catholic
Kathryn Salinas – Chorus Florida State Lynne Rudzik – Orchestra School...................................73%
Howard Middle School..........39% University School..................45% Benjamin Veligdan – Guitar William Lindner – Band
Aaron W. Penfield – Chorus Terice Allen – Orchestra James Madison St. Mark’s Episcopal
Melissa Sandusky – Band John Buckley – Band Middle School........................56% School.................................109%
Freedom Middle School........39% Deborah Meade – Chorus Paul Jackson – Orchestra, Bethany Barfield – Band
John Antmann – Band Wilson Middle School............45% Percussion & Guitar Lillie Gelfand – Chorus
Jennifer Rhodes – Orchestra Kristy Dell – Band Dustin Werner – Band
Timothy Fox – Orchestra & Guitar Dennis Phillips – Chorus & guitar
Adams Middle School............43%
Judith Romera – Chorus
Nancy Barlar – Band
William Baran – Orchestra

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FMEA Awards History
Hall of Fame
Laureates
1968 Harold B. Bachman
1969 Otto Kraushaar
1970 Florence Stumpf
1971 Marguerite S. Porter
1972 Fred McCall
1973 Peter J. Gustat
1973 John J. Heney
1974 Leander A. Kirksey
1975 A. Lyman Wiltse
1976 Karl Kuersteiner
1977 (no award given)
1978 Roy V. Wood
1979 Reid Poole
1980 Wallace P. Gause
1981 Wiley L. Housewright
1982 William V. LeDue
1983 Richard W. Bowles
1984 Frances Deen
1984 David Wilmot
1985 William P. Foster
1986 Peggy Joyce Barber
1987 Howard Doolin
1987 Alice Fague
1988 A. Chiaramonte
1988 Al G. Wright
1989 James Weldon Wilson
1990 Lee Kjelson
1991 Brownie Greaton Cole
1992 Colleen J. Kirk
1993 George H. Hill, Jr.
1994 Harry E. Grant, Sr.
1995 Mary Palmer
1996 Andrew Wright
1997 F. Lewis Jones
1997 Charles R. Hoffer
1998 June M. Hinckley
1999 Elaine McNamara
2000 (no award given)
2001 Bob and Lois Drumm
2002 Dr. William Hipp
2003 Andre Arrouet
2004 Dr. Bobby Adams
2005 Dr. Robert Glidden
2006 Dr. James Croft
2007 (no award given)
2008 Dr. Kathleen D. Sanz
2009 Carolyn Minear
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Music Educator of
the Year
1989 Elaine McNamara
1990 Doris Hotaling
1991 Anne Folsom
1992 Andrew Wright
1992 Andrew J. Crew
1993 Virginia A. Bridges
1994 Cindy Lippert
1994 James E. Forssell
1995 Judith Peterson Evans
1996 A. Byron Smith
1997 Janice Rivers Lancaster
1997 Patricia L. Arnett
1997 Joyce Ann Jordan-DeCarbo
1998 Carolyn E. Reynolds
1998 Christopher P. Doane
1999 Artie Almeida
1999 Edna S. Hargrett
1999 R. Gary Langford
2000 Harold G. Bradley
2000 Shelby R. Fullerton
2000 Dr. Bentley Shellahamer
2001 Margie Smith, Carolyn
Clark, Mark Theilen,
James Croft
2002 Debbie Clifton
2003 Fred W. Selph
2004 Sandy Lantz
2005 Sheila King
2005 James W. Hughes
2006 Cheryl Poe,
Robert M. McCormick,
Dr. Timothy S. Brophy
2007 Mary Jeanette
McGregor Howle,
Phillip D. Wharton,
Dr. Al. G. Holcomb
2008 Deborah M. Fahmie,
Beth Meadows
2009 Martha B. Stanley,
Arthur J. Pranno
Distinguished
Administrator
Award
1990 Stephen Foust, Principal,
Skyline Elementary School
1991 Billye Lowe, Assistant
Principal, Southwest Miami
High School
1992 Herbert McFatter, Principal,
Parker Elementary School
1993 Joan P. Kowal,
Superintendent, Volusia
County Schools
1993 Lowell Hockett, Principal,
Phillip Shores Elementary
School
1994 Daniel Scheuerer, Assistant
Superintendent, Brevard
County
1994 Ronald Armstrong,
Principal, Lantana
Elementary School
1995 David Goldstein, Principal,
Forest Glen Middle School
1996 Joesph Worsham, Principal,
Cypress Creek High School
1997 William R. Renuart,
Superintendent, Dade
County Public Schools
1998 Lauren C. Sullivan,
Principal, Interlachen
Elementary School
1998 Harriet A. Coleman,
Principal, Hunter’s Creek
Middle School
1999 Scott H. Hackmyer,
Principal, Howard Middle
School
1999 Joyce M. Parten, Principal,
Gemini Elementary School
2000 Irwin N. Adler, Principal,
Herbert A. Ammons Middle
School
2000 Kevin D. Flynn, Principal,
Riverview High School
2000 Dr. Clint Wright, Polk County
NW Area Superintendent,
Polk County
2001 David F. Lewis, Principal,
Frostproof Middle/Senior
High School
2002 Merry Ortega, Principal,
Chiles High School
2003 William B. Cooper, Largo
Middle School
2004 Brian Kier, Davenport
Elementary School
2004 Thomas A. Sawyer, Eau
Gallie High School
2005 Robert Lister and Patricia
Archibald, Perkins
Elementary School
2006 Maria Barber, Unity School
of Delray Beach
2006 Dr. Richard A. DiPatri,
Superintendent, Brevard
County Public Schools
2007 (no award was given)
2008 Dr. Gail McKenzie,
Superintendent, Polk County
Public Schools
2009 Brenda Nolte, Principal,
Burns Middle School
Conference Service
Award
1995 Claudia Davidsen
Leadership Award
1995 Mary Palmer
1996 Bobby Adams
1997 Andre Arrouet
1998 Claudia Davidsen
1999 Byron Smith
2000 F. Lewis Jones
2001 Dr. Kathleen D. Sanz
2002 Margaret Griffin
2003 Pearl Krepps
2004 Lucinda Balistreri
2005 Jeanne W. Reynolds
2006 Frank Howes
2007 Carolyn Minear
2008 Janice R. Lancaster
2009 No award given
Innovative Program/
Project
1994 Broward Elementary School,
“Brunch At Broward”
1994 Vineyard Elementary School,
“Renaissance in Bloom at
Vineyards”
1995 Beth Meadows, Dr. Phillips
High School, “World Music
Festival”
1996 Hillsborough County Music
Technology Team, Claudia
Davidsen
1997 Neil C. Brooks, Lake
Butler Middle School,
“Multiple Intelligence in the
Bandroom”
1999 Marie Ulrey-Radloff,
Bonneville Elementary
School, “Listen Mom, My
Music’s on the Internet!”
2000 Barbara J. Dover, Inverness
Middle School, “A Flash of
 Light and All That Jazz”
2003 Jeanne Halberg and
Dean Palmer, Sawgrass
Springs Middle School and
Stoneman Douglas High
School
2004 Debbie Fahmie, “Rainforest,
the Rhythm of Life”
2005 Broward County Elementary
Music Festival
2006 Theresa M. Stricker,
“The Whingdingdilly
– A Multicultural/
Interdisciplinary Unit of
Study”
2007 Donald DeVito, The Sidney
Lanier School Community
Music Program
2008 Beverly Kermode and
Daniel Shea – The Young
Songwriter’s Symposium
“Hillsborough Writes Music”
2009 No award given
Distinguished
Service Award
1989 Bill and Shirley Head, Heads
House of Music, Tampa
1990 Senator Bob Johnson, The
Florida Senate
1991 Bob Bergin, Rhythm Band
Inc., Ft. Worth, Texas
1992 Southern Bell Company
1993 Walt Disney World, Disney
Arts Program
1994 Yamaha Corporation, Grand
Rapids, Michigan
1995 Robert B. Morrison, National
Association of Music
Merchants
1996 Bob Otto, J.W. Pepper &
Pepper of Atlanta
1997 T. Edison and Charlotte
James, Florida Music
Service
1998 Frank T. Brogan, Florida
Commissioner of Education
1999 The Sarasota County Arts
Council
2000 Betsy Kaplan, Miami-Dade
County School Board
2000 Sylvia Perry and Dr. Andrew
Perry, Peripole-Bergerault
2001 Ron Logan, Walt Disney
Entertainment
2002 Jennifer Coolidge, Arts for a
Complete Education
2003 Judy Pine, West Music
2004 Tim Henry, Hohner Inc./HSS
2005 (no award given)
2006 Fred Schiff, President, All
County Music, Inc.
2007 (no award given)
2008 James T. Perry
2009 Penelope “Penny” M.
Janowski, Penny’s Band
Camp
Middle/High School
Enrollment Award
1993 Godby High School, Leon
High School, Lincoln High
School, Spruce Creek High
School
1994 Fort Meade High School,
Titusville High School,
Astronaut High School,
Satellite High School,
Rockledge High School
1995 Walter C. Young Middle
School, Elizabeth Cobb
Middle School, A.D.
Henderson School, Tequesta
Trace Middle School, Ft.
Meade Middle School,
Key Largo Middle School,
Taravella High School, Guy
O. Burns Junior High School,
Margate Middle School,
Pioneer Middle School,
Forest Glen Middle School,
Riverview High School,
Miami Country Day School
1996 Marianna Middle School,
Hoover Junior High School,
Rochelle School of the
Arts, Pine Ridge Middle
School, Lake Butler Middle
School, Braden River Middle
School, Jean Ribault Senior
High School, Ocoee Middle
School, Crystal River Middle
School, Lincoln Memorial
Middle School, DeLaura
Junior High School, Bristol
Middle School, Indian Trail
Middle School, Lake Gibson
Middle School, Wilson
Middle School, Southwest
Junior High School, St.
Petersburg Catholic School,
Johnson Junior High School,
Seminole Middle School,
Shelly S. Boone Middle
School, Taylor County Middle
School, Jenkins Middle
School, James Madison
Middle School, Dunnellon
Middle School, Lincoln
High School, Plantation Key
Middle School
1997 St. Edward’s School,
McLaughlin Middle School,
D.S. Parrot Middle School,
Central Junior High School,
Lakeview Middle School,
Lake Shore Middle School,
Indian Trails Middle School,
Silver Trails Middle School,
Park Avenue Baptist School,
Osceola Middle School, John
F. Kennedy Middle School,
Bristol Middle School,
Richbourg Middle School,
Hidden Oaks Middle School,
Jackson Middle School,
Johnson Junior High School,
Lake Butler Middle School,
Westridge Middle School,
Leon High School, Oak Grove
Middle School
1998 Clifford Meigs Middle
School, Hidden Oaks Middle
School, Florida Christian
School, Burns Middle
School, Sugarloaf School,
Hoover Junior High School,
Carwise Middle School, St.
Joseph School, Cobb Middle
School, Central Junior High
School, Swift Creek Middle
School, Pioneer Middle
School, Horace O’Bryant,
Davidson Middle School,
Pinellas Park Middle School,
Everitt Middle School,
Spruce Creek High School,
Lakeside Junior High School,
Jackson Middle School,
Marshall Middle School,
South Seminole Middle
School, B. Wilson Middle
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School, Clearlake Middle
School, Monroe Middle
School, John F. Kennedy
Middle School, Jim C. Bailey
Middle School
1999 Deerlake Middle School,
Eisenhower Middle School,
Florida State University
School, Hoover Junior High
School, Horizon Middle
School, Howard Doolin
Middle School, Indian Ridge
Middle School, Indian
Trails Middle School, James
Madison Middle School,
Largo Middle School,
Marianna High School,
Milwee Middle School,
Mulberry Middle School,
Orangewood Christian
School, Robinswood High
School, Rodgers Middle
School, Seminole Middle
School, Seven Springs
Middle School, Southwest
Middle School, Tarpon
Springs Middle School,
Tavares Middle School,
Teague Middle School,
Thomas E. Wightman Middle
School, University School
of Nova Southeastern
University
2000 Christa McAuliffe Middle
School, Ransom Middle
School, Marianna Middle
School, Hill-Gustat Middle
School, P.L. Dunbar Middle
School, Benito Middle
School, Forest Lake
Academy, Maitland Middle
School, Pine Ridge Middle
School
2001 Everitt Middle School,
DeLaura Middle School,
Fairview Middle School,
Gifford Middle School,
Tomlin Middle School,
Space Coast Middle
School, Florida Christian
School, Gulfview Magnet
School, Young Middle
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Magnet School of Math and
Technology, Elizabeth Cobb
Middle School, St. Joseph
School, Highlands Christian
Academy
2002 Jewett Middle School, Guy O.
Burns Middle School, Hobbs
Middle School, Largo Middle
School, Pine View School,
Christa McAuliffe Middle
School, Sawgrass Springs
Middle School, Seaside
Neighborhood School,
Seminole Middle School,
Surfside Middle School,
Swift Creek Middle School,
Tavares Middle School,
Trinity Christian Academy
2003 Adams Middle School,
Braden River Middle School,
Discovery Middle School,
R. Hobbs Middle School,
Indiantown Middle School,
Daniel Jenkins Academy
Middle School, John F.
Kennedy Middle School,
Electa Lee Magnet Middle
School, Ruckel Middle
School, Southwest Middle
School, Unity School, B.T.
Washington Magnet Middle
School
2004 Lake Gibson Middle School,
Thomas Jefferson Middle
School, John F. Kennedy
Middle School, Lakeview
Middle School, Young Middle
Magnet School of Math,
Science and Technology,
Williams Magnet Middle
School, Westminster
Academy, Jackson Middle
School, Jewett Academy
Middle School, St. Joseph
School
2005 Largo Middle School, Burns
Middle School, Thomas
Jefferson Middle School,
Westminster Christian
High School, DeLaura
Middle School, Pine View
School, Covenant Christian
School, Bay Haven Charter
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Academy, Swift Creek
Middle School, Clifford
Meigs Middle School,
Westminster Christian
Middle School, St. Mark’s
Episcopal School
2006 Adams Middle School,
Edgewood Junior/Senior
High School, Chain of Lakes
Middle School, Davidson
Middle School, L.B. Johnson
Middle School, Palmer
Trinity School, Roland Park
K-8 School, Ransom Middle
School, Merritt Island
Christian School, Lincoln
Park Academy, Tavares
Middle School, Orange
Grove Middle Magnet,
Diplomat Middle School,
Skycrest Christian School
2007 Central Middle School,
Southwest Middle School,
Daniel Jenkins Academy,
Clearlake Middle School,
Marianna Middle School,
Cocoa Beach Junior High
School, Herbert A. Ammons
Middle School, Andrew
Jackson Middle School,
C.W. Ruckel Middle School,
Williams IB Middle Magnet
School, James Madison
Middle School, Fruit Cove
Middle School, St. Joseph
Catholic School
2008 Pacetti Bay Middle School,
Southwest Middle School,
Blake Academy, Shelley
S. Boone Middle School,
Dade Christian School,
Martinez Middle School,
Sawgrass Springs Middle
School, Markham Woods
Middle School, Elizabeth
Cobb Middle School,
John F. Kennedy Middle
School, Bay Haven Charter
Academy, Davenport
School of the Arts, Mulberry
Middle School, Discovery
Middle School, Southside
Fundamental Middle School,
P.K. Yonge Developmental
Research School (Middle),
Bartow Middle School, Largo
Middle School, Burns Middle
School, Avalon Middle
School, Bridgewater Middle
School, DeLaura Middle
School, Lawton Chiles
Middle Academy, Jewett
Academy Middle School,
Lakeland Christian Middle/
High School
2009 Key Largo Middle School,
Dundee Ridge Middle
School, Teague Middle
School, Edgewood Jr./
Sr. High School, Crystal
Lake Middle School,
Independence Middle
School, Satellite High
School, South Creek Middle
School, Thomas Jefferson
Middle School, Millennium
Middle School, Union
Academy Middle School,
P.K. Yonge Developmental
Research School (High),
Montford Middle School,
Palmer Trinity School, West
Shore Jr./Sr. High School,
McNair Magnet Middle
School, Meadowlawn Middle
School, L.B. Johnson Middle
School, Addie R. Lewis
Middle School, Southwest
Middle School, Osceola
Middle School, Augusta Raa
Middle School, The Osceola
County School for the
Arts, South Miami Middle
Community School Center
for the Arts, Florida State
University Schools (Middle),
Pine Crest School, Carlos
E. Haile Middle School,
Maitland Middle School
Music
Demonstration
Schools
1994
• Chiefland Elementary School,
Chiefland (Honorable Mention)
• Highland Elementary School,
Vero Beach
• Hillcrest Elementary School,
Lake Wales (Honorable Mention)
• Osceola Elementary School, St.
Augustine
• South Miami Elementary, South
Miami
• The First Academy, Orlando
(Honorable Mention)
1995
• Cross Creek School, Pompano
(Honorable Mention)
• Parker Elementary, Panama City
1997-2000
• Bethune Elementary School
of the Arts, Broward County
(Honorable Mention)
• Frances K. Sweet Elementary
Magnet School, St. Lucie County
• Gemini Elementary School,
Brevard County
• Interlachen Elementary School,
Putnam County
• J.A. Thompson Elementary
School, Indian River County
• Riverland Elementary, Fort
Lauderdale (Honorable Mention)
1998-2001
• Broward Elementary School,
Broward County
• Douglas Anderson School of the
Arts, Duval County (Honorable
Mention)
• Philip Shore Elementary School
of the Arts, Hillsborough County
• Riverview High School, Sarasota
County
• Seminole Middle School,
Pinellas County
• Seminole Senior High School,
Pinellas County
• Vivian Gaither Senior High
School, Hillsborough County
1999-2002
• Apollo Elementary School,
Brevard County
• Lincoln Park Academy, St. Lucie
County
• Osceola Magnet School, Indian
River County
• Sulphur Springs Elementary
School, Hillsborough County
2000-2003
• Graceville Elementary, Jackson
County
• Schwarzkopf Elementary,
Hillsborough County
2001-2004
• Broward Elementary School,
Hillsborough County
• Frances K. Sweet Elementary
School, St. Lucie County
• Interlachen Elementary School,
Putnam County
• Riverview High School, Sarasota
County
• Seminole Middle School,
Pinellas County
2002-2005
• Davenport School of the Arts,
Polk County
• Lincoln Park Academy, St. Lucie
County
• Orange Grove Middle School of
the Arts, Hillsborough County
2004-2007
• Apollo Elementary School,
Brevard County
• Charles W. Flanagan High
School, Broward County
• Osceola Magnet School, Osceola
County
• Philip Shore Elementary School
of Arts, Sarasota County
• Winter Park High School, Orange
County
2005-2008
• Andersen Elementary, Brevard
County
• Bayside High School, Brevard
County (Honorable Mention)
• Central Middle School, Brevard
County (Honorable Mention)
• Dr. W.J. Creel Elementary,
Brevard County
• Eau Gallie High School, Brevard
County
• Graceville Elementary, Jackson
County
• Johnson Middle School, Brevard
County
• Melbourne High School, Brevard
County (Honorable Mention)
• Mila Elementary, Brevard
County
• Palm Bay High School, Brevard
County (Honorable Mention)
• Satellite High School, Brevard
County
• Schwarzkopf Elementary,
Hillsborough County
• Titusville High School, Brevard
County
2006-2009
• Audubon Elementary, Brevard
County
• Cambridge Elementary, Brevard
County
• Central Middle, Brevard County
• Cocoa Beach Junior/Senior
High School, Brevard County
(Honorable Mention)
• Croton Elementary, Brevard
County
• Discovery Elementary, Brevard
County (Honorable Mention)
• Frances K. Sweet Elementary
Magnet School, St. Lucie County
• Indialantic Elementary, Brevard
County
• Meadowlane Elementary,
Brevard County (Honorable
Mention)
• Riverview High, Sarasota County
• South Lake Elementary, Brevard
County
• Southwest Middle, Brevard
County
• Spruce Creek High, Volusia
County
• Stevenson Elementary School
of the Arts, Brevard County
(Honorable Mention)
2007-2010
• Apollo Elementary School,
Brevard County
• Osceola Magnet School, Indian
River County
• Douglas Anderson High School
of the Arts, Duval County
• Rochelle School of the Arts
Pre-K-8, Polk County
• Davenport School of the Arts
Pre-K-8, Polk County
• Discovery Elementary School,
Brevard County
• Meadowlane Elementary School,
Brevard County
• DeLaura Middle School, Brevard
County
• Kennedy Middle School, Brevard
County
• Surfside Elementary School,
Brevard County
2008-2011
• Diplomat Middle School, Lee
County
• Dr. W.J. Creel Elementary
School, Brevard County
• Eau Gallie High School, Brevard
County
• Hans Christian Andersen
Elementary School, Brevard
County
• L.B. Johnson Middle School,
Brevard County
• Mila Elementary School,
Brevard County
• Ocean Breeze Elementary
School, Brevard County
• Quest Elementary School,
Brevard County
• Satellite High School, Brevard
County
• Spessard L. Holland Elementary
School, Brevard County
• Titusville High School, Brevard
County
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Honorable Mention, 2008-2011
• Gemini Elementary School,
Brevard County
• Robert Louis Stevenson
Elementary School of the Arts,
Brevard County
• Saturn Elementary School,
Brevard County
• Tropical Elementary School,
Brevard County
2009-2012
• Audubon Elementary School,
Brevard County
• Cambridge Elementary School,
Brevard County
• Central Middle School, Brevard
County
• Croton Elementary School,
Brevard County
• Gemini Elementary School,
Brevard County
• Robert Louis Stevenson
Elementary School of the Arts,
Brevard County
• Saturn Elementary School,
Brevard County
Honorable Mention, 2009-2012
• Oak Park Elementary School,
Brevard County
25-Year Service
Award
1988-1989
Jacquelin Alexander, George L.
Bailey, C. Clark Bell, Frank A.
Biringer, John B. Blair, Sarah Jane
Bradely, Alice Gibson Carden,
Robert C. Carr, Adele De Los
Santos, Robert Dittman, Asa J.
Duncan, Jerome Edwards, Alice
S. Fague, Roger R. Faulmann, Dr.
Philip H. Fink, Dr. Nancy Fowler,
James Gross, John D. Henley, III,
Del Kieffner, Barbara Kerrigan,
Josephine A. Kennedy, Beverly
A. Kirk, Colleen J. Kirk, James
D. Leone, Earl F. Little, Mary J.
Marchant, Elaine McNamara,
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Vic H. Mickunas, Thomas Munafo,
Elizabeth J. Owen, Yvonne C. Rawls,
James H. Rickel, Ellnora Riecken,
Everett L. Thompson, Philip L.
Valente, Alene Weed, Doris Welsh,
Carl G. Wesley, Dr. Robert Williams,
John B. Yost.
1989-1990 Jeanne Halberg, Ronald W.
William Bent, Jr., Tom Bishop, Dr.
Stan Blosch, Eda L. Chappell, Dr.
David S. Collings, Dr. Carolyn V.
Copeland, Virginia L. Densmore,
Anne Folsom, Mary Glascock,
Esther Howard Lansgton, Edward R.
Hotaling, Earl Levan Lewis, V. Lewis
McClure, Phyllis J. Merritt, Ophelia
Ray, C. David Parker, Jimmy Parker,
Helen D. Rock, Don Schmaus,
August Silva, Donna L. Sitton, Jerry
Skora, John C. Whitney, Andrew J.
Wright, M. Jean Wright
1990-1991 Joseph Lee Bell, Carole M. Swope,
Charles D. Bell Joseph W. Bragg, Iris
Codella, Kenneth Fredericks, Judith
Geller, James Etherton, James E.
Hall, Iberia R. Johnston, Robert
G. Lee, Violet Mandese, Forrest
McGinley, Claire Murray, Roy Perry,
Jr., Jacqueline S. Toban, Carl Wesley,
Julian White, James O. Johnston
1992-1993 Neher, Terry Pattishall, John Rose,
Carl E. Boyd, Ernest A. Boyd, Ann
Owen Gordon, June Hinckley, Ronald
Allen Prochnow, Mary Palmer, A.
Byron Smith, Archie Glenn Snyder,
Thomas Williams
1993-1994 Bradden, Stephen Terry, Janey
Yelena C. Banks, Harold Bradley,
K. Michael Cohen, Ronald L.
Helm, Raymond Kickliter, Dalene
McGlockils, Vincent Palazzolo, Harry
A. Spyker, III, Jim St. Clair
1994-1995
Ann Duncan, Carolyn Clark, James
W. Hughes, Dr. Johannes Liu,
William L. Poplin, Jr., Candace
Meyers, Carolyn Reynolds, Andre C.
Arrouet, Lois Drumm, Robert Dru
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1995-1996 2001-2002 2006-2007
Carole Morse, James Erick Miles,
Jerry Gardner, Fred Selph, Eleanor
M. Young, Harriet M. Manning,
Lucia Loper, Alice Gibson Carden,
Pamela Andrews, Stephen Welch,
Maynard E. Erickson, Mary Terhune,
Karen B. Jenkins, Lawrence E.
Young, Sr., Doris R. Hotaling,
Clifford M. Buggs
1996-1997 2002-2003 Sylvia Bristow Thomas, Edward
Karen N. Bradley, Brenda Moorer
Brown, Dennis G. Bryant, Brenda
P. Chapman, Judy Nafrulin Geller
Nevel, Reginald F. Nicholson, Teresa
Boston Kemp, Wayne T. Raymond
1997-1998 Karen A. Bishop, Andrew Carroll
Ward C. Green, Dr. James Croft,
Patrick F. Culler, Anne Howes, Frank
R. Howes, Frances Stone, D. Tina
Laferriere, Gretchen McGaffice,
Peggy L. Keebler, Nathan Wilson, Jr.
1998-1999
Elizabeth Arnold, Nancy Biringer,
Kenneth Bowermeister, Pamela
Brick, L.C. Coney, Panchita Hendrix-
Mitchell, Lou Hyatt, Robert Hyatt,
Joe Jones, Helen Koeing, Karen
LaFrance, Dr. Harry Martinez, Nancy
Marylin Sassmann, Sandra Warrick-
Petty, Willie Williams
1999-2000 Mason
Alice Gison Carden, Evelyn M.
Miller, Jennie Rollins, Alonzo
H. King, Timothy A. Willis, Susan
Hendry, Richard E. James, Douglas
G. Barlar, Nancy Fannon, Tom
Luter, David A. Nauman, Phillip D.
Wharton
2000-2001 Paul Harris, Deborah Wong Mar,
Thomas E. Silliman, Sr., Dr. Diane
Float, Angela J. Terrell, Danica
M. Suarez, Linda Adams, Neil E.
Jenkins, Edward B. Page, Nancie
Force, Ceceilia A. Campbell, Jim
Layton, Mike Woodfin, Barbara
C. Thompson, Gayle S. Cubberly,
Vanessa Pinto
C. Dwane Earnhardt, Dr. Kathleen Larry M. Brewer, Woodrow W.
D. Sanz, Deborah Szalkowski, Bruce Nail, Jr., Louis St. Laurent, Daniel
A. Bruzinski, Thomas P. Davis, Ted Whitfield, Kathy S. Johnson, Beverly
Douce, Charles R. Flory, Lucinda Kermode, Sharon Gittings Teachey,
G. Lippert, Jerry Carter, Margaret Nicholas J. DeCarbo
B. Griffin, Pixie L. Hester, Kathleen
2007-2008
James, Janice R. Lancaster, Carol
Lee, Kenneth Pearce, Marjorie
Branning, Dr. Keith Koons, William
Smith, Susan Bacon McCray
T. Reinecke, William H. Campbell,
Debbie Clifton, Brenda M. Gooding, Elizabeth D. VonEnde,
Dannewitz, Sharon Daught, Thomas Delores Daniels Hayes
J. Gress, Jacquelyn Hails, Mary
2008-2009
Susan Huber, Frank McKinney, Mark
Mary Ada D. Kidd, Ana Lebron Pena,
P. Nelson, J. Mark Scott, Pamela
Sandra Neel, Gaetano Ferlazzo,
Stephens, James Urbanski, Karen
Whitman, James D. Yopp, Sandra K.
Kidd, Andrea Boley, Robert Dean
Zielepuza
Zahner, Terence W. Stryker, J. Kevin
2003-2004 Lewis, Dr. Duncan E. Jackson,
Tim Dickson, Nancy Brookshire Sandra Harwood, Dr. Jerri Goffe,
Holcomb, Roanna J. Combs, Paula Lowell Lampkin, John Trinckes, John
Thornton, Neil L. Theriault, Marie A. Wicker, Joyce Jordan-DeCarbo,
Ulrey-Radloff, Carolyn Baker Turner, Nancy Snyder
Patricia M. Lowe, Robert Halczyn,
George T. Durrick, Beth Smalling,
Sharon Forbes Blackman, John Howard A. Doolin
Acosta, Flo Bickel Memorial Award
2004-2005
1999 Senator John A. Grant, Jr.,
Barbara J. Dover, Michael A. Vail,
Judy R. Arthur, Jeffrey W. Carroll, Representative Evelyn Lynn
Karen H. Willes, Daniel Compher,
Vicky Hagedorn, Alfred B. Hager,
James M. Sammons, Cheryl Poe, MENC Lowell
Gail Benedict, Teresa Boston Kemp,
John McGallagher, Allen Gilbert, Fellow Award
Jennifer Corzine, Dr. Dennis M. Holt,
Donald W. Burman 2004 June Hinckley
2005-2006
Melanie Faulkner, Barbara Fultz,
Darlene B. Hartley, Kim Roberts,
Steven Schleicher, Dale Choate, J.
Vicki Nolan, David J. Vezzetti,
Barbara J. Johnson, Keitha J.
Bledsoe, Ginny Jordan, Mark
Thielen, Kenneth R. Watkins, David
Fultz, D.R. (Rob) Roadman, Debra
K. Bailey, Nancy DeCoux, Winford
E. Franklin, David Cadle, Judith P.
Evans, Judy Naftulin Geller-Nevel
 February/March 2010 41
 Research
Puzzles
(for music teachers)
 y C. Victor Fung
B
Research Committee How can a music
Chairman teacher become a
researcher?
I take “researcher” to mean someone who produces research. A music
The purpose of this column is
teacher can become a researcher by asking a good research question and
to answer your questions about
collaborating with a trained researcher. This way the music teacher can
music education research. I call this
bring practical problems forward for investigation, and the trained research-
column Research Puzzles for two
er can contribute expertise in research methodology, implementation and
reasons. First, it aims at resolving
reporting. If a music teacher would like to become a trained researcher,
your puzzles about music education
he or she should aim at entering a doctoral program in music education
research. I welcome your questions
because most of these programs train music educators to produce research.
about music education research.
The basic research skills normally take a few years to learn and develop,
Second, readers should have a
which usually occurs in a doctoral program in music education.
better understanding about music
education research by reading this
What is the difference between a t-test and an
column through an extended period
analysis of variance (ANOVA)?
of time and by putting the pieces
There are a few differences between a t-test and an analysis of variance
together like pieces of a puzzle.
(ANOVA) although both of them may achieve similar outcomes in some
The big picture of music education
analyses. From the standpoint of data analysis, the main difference is that
research should reveal itself when
the t-test is limited to analyzing only two levels of a variable under investi-
the pieces of the puzzle are in place.
gation, for example, two groups of students or two sets of test scores. The
It will not be right if I claim that any
ANOVA also may be used to compare sets of data, but it is capable of com-
answer in this column is a complete
paring more than two levels of a variable and more than one variable simul-
answer. Answers to questions in
taneously. Even though both the t-test and the ANOVA could be used to
this column could easily be an
analyze a two-level variable with similar outcomes, the formula for compu-
hour-long explanation or even a
tation is different, and researchers often rely on statistical software for the
full-semester course. Regardless,
calculation. A common analytic error is to apply the t-test multiple times on
these puzzle pieces contribute to our
the same data set, rather than using the ANOVA, without adjusting the
understanding of music education
probability for significance. For an explanation of “statistical significance,”
research.
see this column in the October 2007 issue of this publication.

E-mail your questions and feedback to cvfung@arts.usf.edu with a subject heading Research Puzzles. Your questions, if
selected for publication, will remain anonymous unless you state otherwise.

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ComponentNews
Florida Bandmasters
Association
By Mark Spreen,
President
I hope you all were able to attend the
conference in Tampa this year. I was
amazed that our attendance was so good
considering the economic situation we
are experiencing. Many may have had to
take personal days to attend or find other
creative ways to get leave from their
schools. It is a credit to your professional-
ism and dedication to the profession that
you attended the conference.
Thank you to all who worked to make
the conference a success and to all who
attended. Several volunteers were need-
ed to help with some things at the last
minute, and I appreciate all of you who
stepped up to the plate. As usual, we
had more volunteers than positions to
fill. Thank you all for your willingness
to serve.
We are always looking for ideas about
sessions to offer. If you have sugges-
tions for clinics or clinicians, please use
the time in your district meetings to
make those suggestions. The Clinics
Committee works a couple of years ahead
to plan these events, so you may not see
your suggestions immediately, but they
will be considered by the committee.
There were many outstanding ses-
sions this year. I hope everyone was able
to find several things that interested
them. Sometimes there were simply too
many choices, and decisions had to be
made about which clinic to attend. These
sessions are great to get you motivated
and recharged for the second semester.
Wouldn’t if be great if everyone entered
the second half of the year as enthusi-
astically as we do the beginning of the
year? If you attended some of the ses-
sions offered this year, maybe you will be
recharged and ready to go!
FLORIDA COLLEGE
MUSIC EDUCATORS
ASSOCIATION
By Kathleen Kerstetter,
Ph.D., President
No column this issue.
FLORIDA ELEMENTARY
MUSIC EDUCATORS
ASSOCIATION
By Karen W. Bouton,
President
Focus: “To concentrate one’s atten-
tion; To cause to converge at a single
point” (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/
focus). Every teacher knows what “focus”
means, but when we work as an organiza-
tion and each leader’s attention converges
or focuses on what is most important at
that moment, everything comes together
beautifully. That is exactly what your
FEMEA Board of Directors did in January.
Our focus was on the opportunities pre-
sented to you and on making sure your
experience was the best we could make it.
There are not enough “Thank you”
messages in the world to express my
appreciation to our FEMEA Board. Julie
Hebert, Ann Leffard, Tricia Padlan, Mary
Papit, Suzy Reiser, Merrybeth Schmidt
and Brent Uppercue, representatives of
our seven districts, gave their entire con-
ference for the benefit of our member-
ship. Robert Todd and Cheryl Vaughan
dedicated a huge part of the past year in
preparation for the Elementary All-State
Chorus. Anita Travaglino, our execu-
tive director, never stops working for
us. LuAnne Leone, past president, was
always working and watching my back!
April Laymon worked tirelessly and is
showing great leadership skills in prepa-
ration for her presidency. Each of these
leaders went beyond the call of duty. A
simple “Thank you” seems so inadequate
for what they gave each of us. When you
get an opportunity, make sure you let
these leaders know how much you appre-
ciate them, too!
My husband uses an equation with
his band from the book The Inner Game of
Music: Performance = potential – interfer-
ence, or P = p - i. The entire board focused
on one objective during the conference.
I knew the board members would per-
form greatly in their positions, but these
incredible individuals allowed LITTLE or
NO interference in the accomplishment
of their tasks. What a model for all of us!
If we used these leaders for models in
our classrooms, what would be our end
“Performance” as teachers? I suggest that
we all get our priorities in order and set
goals for every class we teach. Set time
limits for those tasks that are not focused
on curriculum and teaching. Those tasks,
although important, are often “interfer-
ence” in the big picture. Focus on the
positive! Think about all of the wonderful
opportunities your students have because
music is part of their curriculum! And
remember, last but most important, as my
friend LuAnne always says, “It’s all about
the children.”
FLORIDA MUSIC
SUPERVISION
ASSOCIATION
By Beth Cummings,
President
No column this issue.
FLORIDA ORCHESTRA
ASSOCIATION
By Tami Roedig,
President
The FMEA Clinic-Conference has come
and gone, and 2010 is well under way.
But it was the FMEA conference that
propelled me into this new year. Our
All-State orchestras were fantastic, inspir-
ing our students from around the state
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who had the opportunity to perform in
such high-caliber ensembles. The FOA-
sponsored sessions were well received
and sent us back to our classrooms with
new techniques and ideas. But beyond
the wonderful concerts and sessions was
the time spent with friends and col-
leagues. The stories, ideas, thoughts and
laughs shared are what make the confer-
ence so special. What other time of the
year can you surround yourself with the
best and brightest music teachers from
across our state?
I encourage you to nominate perform-
ing ensembles for the 2011 FMEA Clinic-
Conference. This year we had string
ensembles from Southeast High School in
Manatee County and Rochelle School of
the Arts in Polk County. And I hope you
had the opportunity to hear Lakewood
Ranch Chamber Orchestra, directed by
Steve Terry. I cannot thank these ensem-
bles enough for sharing their talents with
us! I hope you will consider nominating
one of your own ensembles to perform
next year. The conference will be even
better if we have a greater sampling of the
string ensembles from across our state.
Your ideas for sessions and input
about clinicians are always welcome. If
you would like to serve on the Clinic-
Conference Committee to help with
the planning of both the FMEA Clinic-
Conference and the FOA Fall Workshop,
or if you would like to share an idea,
please contact me at foapresident@gmail.
com. Ideas from our members helped
mold the sessions you attended this year,
and it is my goal to do an even better job
of creating future sessions by using your
thoughts and ideas.
If you attended the FOA general
business meeting, then you know that
three of our members were elected to
the Executive Board: Tinder Buris, 9-10
all-state orchestra chairwoman; Randall
Love, 7-8 all-state orchestra chairman;
and Jessica Talbott, high school honors
orchestra chairwoman. Congratulations
to each of them! As we look ahead to the
2011 FMEA Clinic-Conference, we will
have several positions open for nomina-
tions. These include president-elect, 11-12
all-state orchestra chairperson and mid-
dle school honors orchestra chairperson.
I encourage you to look into serving on
the board in one of these capacities. The
Executive Board represents the member-
ship’s interests, and it would be wonder-
ful to see more members volunteer to
serve. If taking on a role on the state level
is beyond your comfort level, then con-
sider volunteering to serve as a district
chairperson. Our district chairpersons
are the backbone of the association, and
their commitment to serve both our mem-
bers and our students is as important a
role as any. Your district chairpersons can
always use help with their duties. Next
time you have a district meeting, thank
your district chairperson for his or her
hard work throughout the year!
FLORIDA VOCAL
ASSOCIATION
By Mary Catherine Salo,
President
As we finalize preparations for our
music performance assessments, things
can become quite hectic. Some of you
who have a methodical bent have been
preparing for months. Others wait and
evaluate student resources, choose litera-
ture and create ensembles that best suit
as the deadlines approach. Whichever
way we approach this time of evaluation

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for our programs and our students, it is to look at video and hear recordings in making spring. On that topic, here is a
all worthwhile as we educate our singers addition to the printed word. It’s sensory link to Chorus America: www.
and learn things ourselves. overload for many of us but a way of life chorusamerica.org/index.cfm. I’m sure
Our All-State Clinic-Conference, for most of our students. And of course, you already know about this Web site, but
which just flew past, gave you some tools that is always the bottom line … how to right now there is a terrific video posted.
and inspiration. Wonderful workshops by deliver our content in the most effective It is a chorus impact study that was pre-
wise colleagues, excellent literature read- way possible. sented on CBS Sunday Morning. It’s a great
ing sessions, outstanding special perfor- I hope you all have a successful music- advocacy tool. Enjoy!
mances—particularly by the University
High School Chorus and the Booker High
School Vocal Jazz ensemble—along with
a huge variety of exhibits in the big
hall provided some food for thought.
And the general sessions and special
concerts were thought- and spirit-pro-
voking. Many, many thanks to Rebecca
Hammac, our clinics chairwoman, who
worked for over a year putting the nuts
and bolts of our portion of this confer-
ence together. Thanks also to the six
coordinators, Michael Dye, Dale Choate,
John Luffred, Kevin Lusk, Deb Mar and
Suzi Lambert, who shepherded almost
1,400 children through the weekend. And
finally, thanks go to our two executives,
Betty Jo Couch and Mark Scott, who
never stopped moving and assisting for
the entire conference.
I hope you were able to spend some
time observing the master conductors
who worked with your students in the
All-State choirs. I was fortunate to attend
the performances of all six secondary
vocal ensembles, and I was struck by the
scope of what we are able to provide our
children here in Florida. It is a testament
to the legacy of excellence you establish
each year in your preparations. Thank
you for embracing the process the Florida
Vocal Association has developed over the
years.
How things have changed since many
of us began teaching! And what amazing
tools and resources are available to us
if we only have the time to look around
and use them. Here we are … reading
our magazine online, with the ability

February/March 2010 45
 
Executive
Director’s
NOTES
One Voice, One Message
FMEA/FSMA
James T. Perry
ollowing the FMEA Annual Clinic-Conference and
F
All-State Concerts, I’m ever mindful of the great work
of the FMEA Board and Executive Committee and
the hours of time they spend to enhance the music education
profession. The outstanding sessions and performances for you,
the FMEA members, would not be possible without your lead-
ers’ time and interest in reviewing session proposals, schedules,
attending planning meetings and then rolling up their sleeves
during the conference and working to make certain things run
smoothly.
The conference is also an opportunity for the board to connect
with members. I always return home from a conference ener-
gized by the dedication and enthusiasm of FMEA members. It is
a great conference and a great gathering of like minds because
of the spirit and energy we bring together!
Legislative Preparations
On returning to Tallahassee, our office is immediately plunged
into preparations for the next legislative session. This Legislature
has been holding “committee weeks” throughout January and
February to prepare for the opening of the session on Mar. 2.
Bonus Points for Arts Enrollment Bills
We are working—and some of you have received a Legislative
Action Alert—on a bill that will provide for bonus points on a
school’s grade based on students’ arts enrollment. The bill in the
Senate is SB 820, sponsored by Sen. Stephen Wise (parts of Clay,
Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties), and in the House, HB 461,
sponsored by Rep. Kurt Kelly (Marion County).
We believe the bill will move first in the House, and we con-
tinue to seek House members to co-sponsor the bill with Rep.
Kelly. While our legislative alert of Feb. 17 was especially solicit-
ing FMEA members who live in the districts of representatives
serving on the House PreK-12 Education Committee to contact
their representatives about co-sponsoring, every FMEA member
can make a similar call to his or her own representative. The
more members signed onto a bill as a co-sponsor, the more likely
it is to pass.
Please make your calls—and then follow-up in a week or so
to see if your representatives actually did become co-sponsors.
If they did so—THANK THEM! If not, please reiterate your sup-
port for the bill and ask again.
46 Florida Music Director
An Activated Network?
It is also important for your network to be involved. Make sure
your e-mail can be easily forwarded to booster organizations,
community supporters, alumni of your program, etc. Of course,
we recommend that such networks exist apart from using school
e-mail systems. It is preferred to keep legislative activity on per-
sonal e-mail accounts.
Does your FMEA profile have your current, best e-mail
address for your non-school e-mail?
The Legislature takes little note of outside activities. Committee
hearings happen during spring breaks, during MPAs and during
all sorts of other activities that may take your focus away from
legislative action. For our efforts to be successful, we still need
to be able to respond and to activate large numbers of phone
calls and e-mails within a few days. It is rare that we have more
than three or four days’ notice before knowing that our bill will
be on the next committee calendar—and usually we find out on
a Thursday or a Friday before a Monday or a Tuesday meeting.
The bottom line on legislative action is that it REALLY needs
to be a high priority for ALL FMEA members—and for ALL of
your networked contacts. Please help us by making sure you’re
checking personal e-mail accounts and reading legislative alerts
as they are posted or e-mailed.
Use the Network for Local Issues
This year will be difficult for many school districts as they again
face shortfalls in funding. At the moment, it does not appear as if
there will be much help from the Legislature in that regard. Your
local networks need to be activated ANYTIME a local music
program is threatened.
It’s my hope that high school directors, who usually possess
the most active booster organizations, will use those networks
if elementary or middle school music programs are threatened.
Without the foundation music courses, all programs will be
diminished—and fewer students will have opportunities in
music education. Even so, middle school and elementary direc-
tors also need to be building their own networks of support
among parents, community supporters, former students, etc.
When we speak with one voice—and one message—we can
be heard! Let’s make certain we take every extra measure and
every extra step to ensure that music education for our students
remains strong!
 O fficers an d Directors
EXECUTIVE BOARD
President..................................Joseph Luechauer
Broward County Public Schools
600 SE 3rd Avenue, 12th Floor
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
(754) 321-1861
joeluechauer@browardschools.com
Past President........................... Jeanne Reynolds
Pinellas County Schools, Administration Building
301 4th Street, SW, P.O. Box 2942
Largo, FL 33779-2942
(727) 588-6055; reynoldsj@pcsb.org
President-elect................................... Sheila King
3730 Oakhill Drive, Titusville, FL 32780
(321) 383-3991; pianoforte@mindspring.com
FBA President.................................. Mark Spreen
Riverview High School, 1 Ram Way
Sarasota, FL 34231-8511
(941) 923-1484; mdspreen@msn.com
FCMEA President......... Kathleen Kerstetter, Ph.D.
11720 Berry Drive, Cooper City, FL 33026
(954) 447-6217; miamiflute@gmail.com
FCMENC President........................ Michelle Guest
18193 Horseshoe Bay Circle, Fort Myers, FL 33967
(239) 437-8009; mlg06e@fsu.edu
FCMENC Advisor....................... Al Holcomb, Ph.D.
University of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Boulevard
Orlando, FL 32816
(407) 823-4180; aholcomb@mail.ucf.edu
FEMEA President . ................Karen Bouton, NBCT
1047 8th Avenue, Graceville, FL 32440
(850) 263-0246; karenbouton@bellsouth.net
FMSA President............................Beth Cummings
P.O. Box 437, Kathleen, FL 33849
(863) 859-2447; cummingsbg@hotmail.com
FOA President................................... Tami Roedig
1844 Mountain Ash Way
New Port Richey, FL 34655
(727) 943-4035; foapresident@gmail.com
FVA President....................... Mary Catherine Salo
706 SW 25th Avenue
Boynton Beach, FL 33435
(561) 734-2960; mcsalo@yahoo.com
Member-at-Large.............. John K. Southall, Ph.D.
Indian River State College
3209 Virginia Avenue; Fort Pierce, FL 34981
(772) 462-7810; jsouthal@irsc.edu
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS
Historian/Parliamentarian
Kathleen D. Sanz, Ph.D.
District School Board of Pasco County
7227 Land O’ Lakes Boulevard
Land O’ Lakes, FL 34638
(813) 794-2248; ksanz@pasco.k12.fl.us
DOE Arts Education.................Linda Lovins, Ph.D.
Florida Department of Education
325 West Gaines Street, Suite 432
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0400
(850) 245-0762; linda.lovins@fldoe.org
Executive Director............................ James Perry
Hinckley Center for Fine Arts
Education, 402 Office Plaza Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32301-2757
(850) 878-6844; FX: (850) 942-1793
jamesperry@flmusiced.org
Florida Music Director, Editor-in-Chief
Michael Allen
2305 Kilkenny Drive West, Tallahassee, FL 32309
(850) 894-1086; FX: (850) 644-2033
mallen@fsu.edu
FSMA President.................................. David Lewis
Polk County District Office
P.O. Box 391, Bartow, FL 33831
(863) 534-0624; david.lewis@polk-fl.net
FMEA COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSONS
Awards...........................................Debbie Fahmie
Fine and Performing Arts Resource Specialist
Osceola District Schools
(407) 870-4904; fahmied@yahoo.com
Black Caucus............................Bernie Hendricks
Ocoee High School, 1925 Ocoee Crown Point
Parkway, Orlando, FL 34761
(407) 905-3009; bernard.hendricks@ocps.net
Budget/Finance, Development......Joe Luechauer
Broward County Public Schools
600 SE 3rd Avenue, 12th Floor
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
(754) 321-1861
joeluechauer@browardschools.com
Emerging Leaders...................Judy Bowers, Ph.D.
Florida State University, College of Music
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1180
(850) 644-3005; jbowers@fsu.edu
Florida Music Industry Council........... Fred Schiff
All County Music
8136 North University Drive
Tamarac, FL 33321-1708
(954) 722-3424, fredallcounty@aol.com
General Music.......................................Ed Prasse
3046 Cloudland Drive,Tallahassee, FL 32312
prasse@aol.com
Research..................................Victor Fung, Ph.D.
University of South Florida, School of Music
FAH 110, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Tampa, FL 33620
(813) 974-1145; cvfung@arts.usf.edu
Retired Members..................... Lucinda Balistreri
4461 North Lake Drive, Sarasota, FL 34232
(941) 371-3020
cindy_balistreri@sarasota.k12.fl.us
Special Learners.........................Josue Rodriguez
Hollywood Park Elementary
901 North 69 Way, Hollywood, FL 33024
(754) 323-6250
josue.rodriquez@browardschools.com
Technology..................................Dominick Eggen
Viera High School
6103 Stadium Parkway, Viera, FL 32940
(321) 632-1770
eggen.dominick@brevardschools.org
Student Leadership.......................... To be named FLORIDA ELEMENTARY MUSIC EDUCATORS
ASSOCIATION
CLINIC-CONFERENCE
President . .......................Karen W. Bouton, NBCT
Exhibits Managers.......... Byron and Bobbie Smith 1047 8th Avenue, Graceville, FL 32440
4110 Tralee Road, Tallahassee, FL 32309 (850) 263-0246; bouton@wfeca.net
(850) 893-3606; fmeaexhibits@flmusiced.org
President-elect......................April Laymon, NBCT
Local Co-Chairman................................ Ted Hope 1434 North Laura Street, Jacksonville, FL 32206
Hillsborough County Public Schools (904) 662-1556; laymona@dreamsbeginhere.org
School Administration Center
Past President...............................Lu Anne Leone
901 East Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33602
2108 North 14th Court, Hollywood, FL 33020
(813) 272-4861; ted.hope@sdhc.k12.fl.us
(954) 925-6126
Local Co-Chairwoman...............Melanie Faulkner luanne.leone@browardschools.com
Hillsborough County Public Schools
Executive Director......................Anita Travaglino
School Administration Center
19336 Otters Wick Way, Land O’Lakes, FL 34639
901 East Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33602
(813) 949-9380; akhocker@msn.com
(813) 272-4461; melanie.faulkner@sdhc.k12.fl.us
FLORIDA MUSIC SUPERVISION ASSOCIATION
FLORIDA BANDMASTERS ASSOCIATION
President......................................Beth Cummings
President.......................................... Mark Spreen
Polk County Schools
Riverview High School
5204 Highway 98 South, Lakeland, FL 33813
1 Ram Way, Sarasota, FL 34231-8511
(863) 647-4729; beth.cummings@polk-fl.net
(941) 923-1484; mdspreen@msn.com
Past President...................... Tom Pearson, Ph.D.
President-elect.............................. Randy Folsom
School District of Palm Beach County
Fort Walton Beach Sr. High School
3310 Forest Hill Boulevard, C-225
400 Hollywood Boulevard, SW
West Palm Beach, FL 33406
Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548-4540
(561) 434-8161
(850) 833-3300, ext. 2507
pearsot@mail.palmbeach.k12.fl.us
folsomr@mail.okaloosa.k2.fl.us
Treasurer................................. Sandra Durr, Ph.D.
Past President.................................Chuck Fulton
Escambia County District Schools
Lakeland Christian School
J.E. Hall, Suite 105, 30 East Texar Drive
1111 Forest Park Street, Lakeland, FL 33803
Pensacola, FL 32503
(863) 688-2771, ext 237; cfulton@lcsonline.org
(850) 469-5311; sdurr@escambia.k12.fl.us
Executive Director.....................Duane L. Hendon
Florida Bandmasters Association FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 1028, Silver Springs, FL 34489-1028
President........................................... Tami Roedig
(352) 625-9570; duanelhendon@cs.com
1844 Mountain Ash Way
New Port Richey, FL 34655
FLORIDA COLLEGE MUSIC EDUCATORS (727) 943-4035; foapresident@gmail.com
ASSOCIATION
Past President........................ Scott Rudes, Ph.D.
President.......................Kathleen Kerstetter, Ph.D.
Assistant Principal for Magnet Curriculum
11720 Berry Drive, Cooper City, FL 33026
Howard W. Blake High School
(954) 447-6217; miamiflute@gmail.com
1701 North Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33607
Past President................................. John Seybert (813) 272-3422
Southeastern University scott.rudes@sdhc.k12.fl.us
1000 Longfellow Boulevard
Executive Director..................... Donald Langland
Lakeland, FL 33801-6034
620 Rollingwood Lane, Valrico, FL 33594
(863) 667-5104; jmseybert@seuniversity.edu
(813) 774-9752; FX: (813) 333-1045
Secretary-Treasurer...................Kenneth Phillips
exdirfoa@aol.com
Palm Beach Atlantic University
P.O. Box 24708 FLORIDA VOCAL ASSOCIATION
West Palm Beach, FL 33416-4708
President.............................. Mary Catherine Salo
(561) 803-2411; kenneth_phillips@pba.osu
706 SW 25th Avenue, Boynton Beach, FL 33435
(561) 734-2960; mcsalo@yahoo.com
FLORIDA COLLEGIATE MENC
Past President.................................. Michael Dye
President....................................... Michelle Guest
102 Georgia Avenue, Niceville, FL 32578
18193 Horseshoe Bay Circle
(850) 729-1733; mndye@yahoo.com
Fort Myers, FL 33967
(239) 437-8009; mlg06e@fsu.edu Executive Director........................... J. Mark Scott
7122 Tarpon Court, Fleming Island, FL 32003
Past President.......................... Nicholas Casiano
(904) 284-1551; fva.scott@gmail.com
970 Plover Avenue, Miami Springs, FL 33166
(305) 887-8748; nicholas.casiano@gmail.com Financial Officer........................... Betty Jo Couch
1242 Jade Lane NE, Palm Bay, FL 32907
(321) 327-7976; fvacouchbj@gmail.com
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