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Text Box: Alumni News & Notes Text Box: Ellen Marco Hoard is in her 17th year as an elementary general music teacher in the Grand Ledge Public Schools.  She is also a member of the music ministry at St. Johns Student Parish in East Lansing where she’s begun a liturgical recorder ensemble.  She is a member of the Gordon Institute for Music Learning and performed the role of the Narrator in Lansing’s Riverwalk Theater production of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” last spring. Karlene Lamberton McLaren retired from public school teaching in 2002 and is now a Child Development Specialist at the San Angelo office of the Texas Workforce Center.  Musically, she is active with her church choir and sings with the Sweet Adelines. Shirley Bloch Morgan plays organ and piano for her church and sings in the church choir.  She also plays at school for High School Drama Club Musicals and the Community Christmas Chorus.  She plays for weddings, funerals, and soloists on occasion. Jennifer Diebel Nicol is employed as the Band Director for grades 5-12 for the Ubly (MI) Community Schools.  She married Jason Nicol from Cass City, MI, in April 2003. Megan Renee Walker is currently teaching K-6 elementary music and 5th and 6th grade beginning band at Pueblo Elementary School in Yuma, AZ.  She also enjoys playing flute in the Yuma Civic Orchestra and Yuma Community Band, as well as with local ensembles. Lani Weingartner Yearicks is a Sergeant in the U.S. Army and is currently stationed with the 434th Army Signal Corps Band at Ft. Gordon, GA, where she is Trombone Section Leader.  She also sings with the Augusta Choral Society and her church choir.  She married Ryan Yearicks from Roswell, NM, in December 2002. DELTA LAMBDA - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Imogene McNabb Draper plays viola in a string trio as part of the Musical Interludes program sponsored by the Camden Country Cultural and Heritage Commission and funded by the New Jersey State Arts Council. Helen Studabaker’s main interest is now with Bridge.  As a Life Master (over 4,000 MP), she travels to tournaments mainly in the U.S.  She has sung in 3 of the Bridge Shows in National Tournaments. DELTA MU - University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC Elenore Wilkins Lunn is a substitute organist in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky and sings in the choir at The Church of the Redeemer in Cincinnati as well as at special services at the Cathedral Basilica in Covington, KY.  She volunteers at Episcopal Retirement Homes, playing the organ and working with the residents. DELTA NU - Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX John David Bauman is on the administrative staff of The James Dick Foundation, whose project is The International Festival - Institute at Round Top (aka the “Round Top Music Festival”). DELTA OMICRON - Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Grace Anne Asquith maintains an active piano studio and a busy schedule adjudicating throughout Colorado.  Her composition   

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Text Box: DELTA GAMMA - Colorado State University, Greeley, CO Michelle Rae Byrne is a freelance and orchestral cellist in Los Angeles, CA. Patty Poage Woods teaches General Music to elementary students in grades K-5 for the Adams County (CO) District and is also a private piano teacher. DELTA DELTA - Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY Elizabeth Bradshaw Carlton serves as organist at First Baptist Church in Salisbury, NC, and is Faculty Emerita at the Department of Music at Catawba College. Mildred Cutshaw Fields teaches full-time at the Performing Arts School and Fayette County (KY) Schools. DELTA EPSILON - Wisconsin College of Music, Milwaukee, WI Justine F. Baumann Warren is a retired octogenarian and enjoys each day as it is given to her and her husband. DELTA ETA - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI June Meister Brockman plays clarinet in the Green Bay City Band, N.E.W. Band, and Shawano Community Band.  She recently performed in China, Germany, Austria, and Poland. Jean Humphrey is a retired college professor of history and political science and currently organizes events for people who play primarily non-pedal harps in the historical (Historical Harp Society) and folk (Great Lakes Harpers) genres.  During the summer and fall, Jean attends early music workshops where she plays harp, viola da gamba, and vielle. Joan Silver-McDow has retired after 35 years of teaching public school music, but still serves as organist at several churches. Barbara Whalley Suetholz plays flute with the Racine Symphony and piccolo with the Milwaukee Concert Band.  She also performs in a flute duo with her husband. Ann Welnak Tenaglia teaches country line dancing classes every Sunday. DELTA THETA - Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Carmen Tarrant Carpenter is the Organist/Choir Director for the St. Peter African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Hamtramck, MI, and is the accompanist for a choir at Communication Media Arts High School.  She also plays the piano at luncheons, funerals, and other events.  Carmen is also a “Tina Turner Look-Alike” performer for birthday parties, retirements, Bar Mitzvahs, and the like. Mary A. Pilette is a retired public school music teacher, but works part-time in an animal hospital.  She has 4 cats and sings in 2 choirs. DELTA IOTA - Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI Pamela Bechtel Czerkis teaches elementary vocal music for the Utica Community Schools and serves as the Elementary Vocal Music Department Chairperson for her school district.  She and her husband are expecting their first child in April. Sister Marie Kopin is currently involved in taking care of her elderly mother and as this has been a full-time occupation, she has not had time to do much musically, but she has directed church choirs and played the organ.

 

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