Text Box: Alumni News & Notes Text Box: OMICRON GAMMA - Samford University, Birmingham, AL Polly Barnes Fowler directs the adult and children’s choir at Rehobeth Baptist Church in Fayette, AL. She has retired from teaching at Fayette High School and now works for Bevill State Community College teaching adult education and college prep. OMICRON EPSILON - Northeast Louisiana State University, Monroe, LA Rebekah Watson teaches in Shreveport, LA, at Werner Park Elementary. She is also adjunct faculty at Bossier Parish Community College where she teaches private piano and voice. She married Eric Burcham in August 2005. OMICRON ZETA - East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN Matthew Williams teaches general music at three K-8 schools in Greene County, TN. He was placed on the clarinet sub list for the Symphony of the Mountains in Kingsport, TN, and is researching graduate programs in hopes of studying music theory at the masters level in fall 2006. OMICRON KAPPA - Mississippi College, Clinton, MS Ann Jones is the Chair of the Voice Department of Carson-Newman College, the Delta Omicron National Historian, and Editor of the 100th Anniversary of The WHEEL for 2009. OMICRON PHI - University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, Whitewater, WI Denise Cornell is an elementary and middle school substitute teacher where she uses music in the classroom. ALPHA ALPHA - University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, Stevens Point, WI Theresa Exenberger works as a High School Guidance Counselor in Beaufort, SC. Along with her duties to the school, she travels with their choir and orchestra on tours and competition trips. Theresa also enjoys playing with the Hilton Head (SC) Orchestra. Annette Zirek Teslik is a licensed speech language pathologist. She works as a certified staff member of Moline (IL) School District 40 as well as in a private practice providing speech therapy services. Annette enjoys attending local concerts. ALPHA EPSILON - Converse College, Spartanburg, SC Victoria “Tori” Leigh Bunke teaches general music at Chisholm Elementary in New Smyrna Beach, FL. Carland Collins teaches elementary music at Danielsville (GA) Elementary School. Alison Gina Betts Harvey teaches 20 violin students in Text Box: her home studio using both Suzuki and traditional methods. She is also the Vice President and Soprano Section Leader of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra Gospel Choir and a free-lance violinist. Melissa Lengua is the Artistic Director of the Pocono Vocal Arts Society, a non-profit performing arts organization dedicated to bringing quality musical presentations to the Pocono area. ALPHA GAMMA - Carson-Newman College, Jefferson City, TN Ashley DeMatteis is attending Southern Seminary in Louisville, KY, and is pursuing her Masters in Church Music. She still studies voice and is a member of Seminary Choir, an auditioned group. Linda Denton teaches 7th grade science at Gresham (TN) Middle School and sings in the choir at Church of the Good Shpherd. Ronda Lay Johnson married fellow musician Jeff Johnson in May 2005. She teaches general music and middle school choir in Sevierville, TN, and sings in the Knoxville Choral Society and Knoxville Chamber Chorale. Ronda was a soloist in Haydn’s The Creation this past fall. She is the Editorial Assistant for The WHEEL and is the East Tennessee Alumni Chair. Holly Haynes Lamb teaches elementary music for the Roanoke (VA) City Schools and is active in the music program at Virginia Heights Baptist Church where her husband is the Minister of Music. Lauren A. Lott is the music director and organist at Mineral Springs Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, NC. She spends most of her time trying to keep up with her children, ages 2 and 4. Michele Dyke Reeves is the choral and general music teacher at Gresham Middle School in Knoxville, TN. She gave birth to her daughter, Alicia Katherine, on February 16, 2004. Nicole Wood is working on her Master of Music in Accompanying degree at UT - Knoxville. ALPHA ZETA - Maryville College, Maryville, TN Martha Cain Freeman is an elementary music teacher in the Campbell (TN) County Schools. She is also the organist and choir accompanist at First Baptist Church of LaFollette and teaches private piano. Sarah Stutzman is a music teacher in the Athens City (TN) School System and is also working on a Masters in Choral Conducting at the University of Tennessee.

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