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Text Box: Alumni News & Notes Text Box: Indianapolis (IN) Academy of Music.  She is also a Mary Kay consultant working toward directorship. OMICRON XI - University of Nebraska of Omaha, Omaha, NE Mary Beth Scarpellino Neuhaus teaches orchestra at West Valley Middle School and has approximately 160 students. OMICRON RHO - Philadelphia College of Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA Carol Pownall Ferri teaches piano full time to all levels of students, specializing in the advanced and artist levels.  She is active coordinating recitals, auditions, and competitions for the Piano Teachers Society of America, of which she is Co-Director.  Carol has also given solo recitals and was featured in a Dedication Recital at the Denville (NJ) Community Church.  She recently completed a CD of the piano works of L.M. Gottschalk and was invited to perform on the Alumni Concert at the 2003 Triennial Delta Omicron Conference. OMICRON SIGMA - William Carey College, Hattiesburg, MS Rita Jo Wilson is the Chorus Director and Assistant Band Director at Hancock High School in Kiln, MS and has adjudicated for the Gulf Coast Band Directors Association middle and high school clinics.  She also serves as the Music Director of Union Baptist Church in Seminary, MS. OMICRON TAU - Trenton State University, Trenton, NJ Stephanie Pavlakos Krauss currently ministers as a Cantor and Assistant Music Director at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Washington, NJ.  She also works as a paralegal. OMICRON PSI - Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN Carol A. Ainsworth is a music specialist with the Murfreesboro (TN) City Schools and serves on the Board of Directors of the Murfreesboro Philharmonic Orchestra.  She is also a member of the Bohannon Music Club and the director of “The Consort,” an elementary recorder ensemble. Amy Edmonson Wuester taught herself how to play the piano by reading guitar chords and is the primary pianist at her church.  She works as needed as a pharmacy technician for Hillside Hospital in Pulaski, TN. Timothy Edward Wuester is the Minister of Music and Worship at Mars Hill Baptist Church in Lawrenceburg, TN. OMICRON OMEGA - Illinois State University, Normal, IL Judith Schneider Steers teaches K-12 Music and Speech & Drama half time at Barry, IL, and K-2 Music half time at Pittsfield.  She has 30 private voice and guitar students and also directs the Barry Community Chorus. Sarah Riebock Whitlock teaches band and choir at Bloom High School in Chicago Heights, IL.  She also works with the Phantom Regiment Drum & Bugle Corps and plays in the South Suburban College Symphonic Band and Brass Quintet. ALPHA ALPHA - University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI Jodi Olson Rueth is the vocal music teacher at Greenwood Text Box: (WI) Middle/High School. ALPHA GAMMA - Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, TN Doris Rightmyer Granum finished her doctorate in 2000 and continues to teach elementary school music at Oglethorpe Avenue Elementary.  She also directs the Georgia Children’s Chorus in Residence at the University of Georgia. Katherine L. Hall is a member of the Franklin County (VA) Community Chorus and works with the music departments of various churches in her area.  She also teaches private piano lessons and 6th, 7th, and 8th grade choir at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Rocky Mount, VA.  Katie graduated from Radford University with a Masters of Science in Music Education in December 2003 and was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi fraternity at Radford. Diane Johnson Kirby is the pianist at Clemmons First Baptist Church, a job which includes playing for the Chancel Choir and Senior Adult Choir. Deborah Brunson Parks received Level I Orff Certification at Florida State University in July 2001 and has recently obtained a Technics Keyboard Lab for instruction of 1st through 6th graders.  She completed Glasser Certification in June 2003, an area that refers to choice theory, reality therapy, and lead management as it relates to education. Ashleigh Russell is the Province President for Zeta North Province and teaches kindergarten half days and music the other half.  She also has 13 private piano students. ALPHA ZETA - Maryville College, Maryville, TN     Dr. Carol Fisher Mathieson has taught at Culver-Stockton College for 28 years as Professor of Music and Director of Opera Workshop.  She was selected for a sabbatical during Fall 2003 to do a performance art project which tells the story of Jenny Lind touring America under the sponsorship of P.T. Barnum.  Dr. Mathieson’s opera workshop prepared a newly composed chamber opera titled “Lincoln’s Happiest Night” for a campus production and as part of a Lincoln emphasis month in February at the Quincy Museum in Quincy, IL. ALPHA ETA - Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY     Cindy Thurman Elrod retired from the Frankfort (KY) City School System in May 2002 after 28 years of teaching.  She has directed and played handbells at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) for 20 years and currently has 2 groups, a children’s group and an adult group called the Disciple Ringers.  Cindy has also directed the adult choir at Bridgeport Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and has a children’s handbell choir (Joyful Noise) and an adult handbell choir (The Bridgeport Ringers), both of which she started this past January. ALPHA THETA - Frostburg College, Frostburg, MD     Julie Gilliam plays French horn with D.C.’s Different Drummers.  She is also the founder and coordinator of Girls Kick Brass, an all women’s brass quintet that plays for various venues.     Douglas J. Kotula recently directed a production of “My Fair Lady” for the Annapolis (MD) Summer Garden Theater.  He is currently featured as a principal dancer in the Moonlight Troupers production of “42nd Street” and will also be featured as Marley’s Ghost    

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