Pamela Bell (AS ’71, ’83) performed in the cast of “Motherhood Out Loud” presented online by Winchester Little Theatre from May 9 to May 16. (Pictured to the left.) Karen Newell (HP ’88, ’07) was ... Continue Reading May 2021 Class Notes
April 2021 Class Notes
Edrie Means Weekly (C ’84) was awarded the 2021 Van Lawrence Fellowship Award, which is presented by The Voice Foundation and National Association of Teachers of Singing Foundation. (Pictured to the ... Continue Reading April 2021 Class Notes
March 2021 Class Notes
Jeanne Gartner (C ’72) was featured in an article on the Air Force Bands website called “Celebrating Women's History: Chief Master Sgt. Jeanne Gartner, a woman of many firsts,” which celebrated her ... Continue Reading March 2021 Class Notes
February 2021 Class Notes
Charlene Baughan Romano (C ’91) presented a Flute Pedagogy Reboot for Band Directors at the Virginia Music Education Association’s virtual annual conference in November 2020. (Pictured to the ... Continue Reading February 2021 Class Notes
January 2021 Class Notes
John Arnold (C ’92, ’94) performed “The Solo Guitar Works of Glenn Caluda” for Handley Regional Library’s Virtual Little Noon Music on Jan. 8, 2021. Leah Jacobs Schade (AS ’93) shared a rebuttal to ... Continue Reading January 2021 Class Notes
December 2020 Class Notes
A letter to the editor by Robert J. Spiers, Jr. (C ’69), “My Memories of Performing at Calvary Baptist Church,” was published in the Roanoke Times on Nov. 14, 2020. K & E Lawn Service, a ... Continue Reading December 2020 Class Notes
November 2020 Class Notes
On Sept. 23, 2020, Frederick L. Conti (AS ’67) was awarded a Life Achievement Award in Akron, Ohio, for his 42 years of service to his Podiatric profession. Charlene Romano (C ’91) was recently ... Continue Reading November 2020 Class Notes
October 2020 Class Notes
Ann May Dellinger (D ’60) retired from Sentara Rockingham Memorial Hospital after 52 years. She began in the medical records department, and then moved to Northern Virginia, where she worked at ... Continue Reading October 2020 Class Notes
August 2020 Class Notes
Robert J. Spiers, Jr. (C ’69) was chosen as correspondent of the day for the Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) for the second time in 2020 for his article “Raceway, Godwin crews make ... Continue Reading August 2020 Class Notes
July 2020 Class Notes
Ann Werner Van Dyke (C ’68) and H. Ray Van Dyke (AS ’75) will celebrate their 53rd anniversary on Aug. 27, 2020. (Pictured to the left are Ray and their granddaughters.) Thomas Wilkins (C ’78) was ... Continue Reading July 2020 Class Notes
June 2020 Class Notes
After 21 years, Joseph Cofer (C ’80) has retired from Gaston County Schools in Gastonia, North Carolina. During his teaching career he also served as a band director for Handley High School in ... Continue Reading June 2020 Class Notes
May 2020 Class Notes
Susan Cusick-Carpenter (AS ’82, HP ’84) recently received a promotion and will now work as the assistant vice president of healthcare claims at StarStone Specialty Insurance Company in Jersey City, ... Continue Reading May 2020 Class Notes
April 2020 Class Notes
Robert Spiers, Jr.'s (C ’69) entry, “Coronavirus: Remembering the Polio Epidemic of the 1940s,” into the Richmond Times-Dispatch was chosen as Correspondent of the Day in March 2020. He also gave a ... Continue Reading April 2020 Class Notes
March 2020 Class Notes
Paul Noble (C ’56) launched a newly redesigned website, www.bandmusicpdf.net, to share his music arrangements for band with a catalog featuring more than 300 titles. (Pictured to the left.) Virginia ... Continue Reading March 2020 Class Notes
February 2020 Class Notes
Ronald McFarlane (C ’75) will perform during the Delaware Friends of Folk’s free Old State House concert in Dover, Delaware on Feb. 14, 2020. Dan Miller (C ’79, 03, 08) and James Martin (C ’07), who ... Continue Reading February 2020 Class Notes
January 2020 Class Notes
The Atlanta Chamber Players – Laura Ardan, Brad Ritchie and Elizabeth Pridgen – performed Tommy J. Anderson’s (C ’69) Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op. 14 on Oct. 13, 2019, at Peachtree Road ... Continue Reading January 2020 Class Notes
December 2019 Class Notes
Pablo Cuevas (’60) left his seat as the District 1 Supervisor of Rockingham County, Virginia, after 30 years of service. Ann K. Werner Van Dyke (C ’68) has written the third book in her series ... Continue Reading December 2019 Class Notes
November 2019 Class Notes
Pamela Bell (AS ’71, B ’83) will reprise her role of Sook, cousin of Truman Capote, in the radio play “I Remember Christmas,” presented by Winchester Little Theatre as a dinner theatre at Jordan ... Continue Reading November 2019 Class Notes
October 2019 Class Notes
Pamela Bell (AS ’71, ’84) was among several Shenandoah community members who performed in the Winchester Little Theatre’s rendition of “King Lear” in September. Thomas Wilkins (C ’78) conducted the ... Continue Reading October 2019 Class Notes
September 2019 Class Notes
Norman McCorkle (C ’60) played the 18 rank Schantz pipe organ for Homecoming at Thyatira Presbyterian Church in Salisbury, North Carolina, on Aug. 11. Ray Van Dyke (AS ’75) and Ann Werner Van Dyke (C ... Continue Reading September 2019 Class Notes
July 2019 Class Notes
On June 15, 2019, Robert “Bobby” Spiers (C ’69) and his wife, Betty Ann, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary by renewing their vows at the Reveille United Methodist Church Chapel in Richmond, ... Continue Reading July 2019 Class Notes
June 2019 Class Notes
A 1908 Shenandoah Collegiate Institute & School of Music catalog, which belonged to Shenandoah alumna Myrtle M. Powell 1907, was recently donated to the university by her granddaughter, Linda L. ... Continue Reading June 2019 Class Notes
May 2019 Class Notes
On April 28, Bobby Spiers (C ’69) was honored at an awards ceremony held by the Richmond Times-Dispatch (RT-D) for the 365 “Correspondent of the Day” recipients for the year 2018. Spiers was one of ... Continue Reading May 2019 Class Notes
April 2019 Class Notes
In March 2019, "TREASURES: The Musical Adventures of Tom Sawyer," an original adaptation by Dolly Stevens (C ’77) and Tom Sweitzer (C ’94, C ’11), was performed at the Franklin Park Arts Center in ... Continue Reading April 2019 Class Notes
March 2019 Class Notes
In January 2019, Sandra Falkenmayer Van Dam (C ’77) welcomed her first grandchild into the world, Aksel Finian Van Dam. On March 10, the Washington Saxophone Quartet celebrated its 40th anniversary ... Continue Reading March 2019 Class Notes
February 2019 Class Notes
Pam Bell (AS ’71, AS ’83) took part in the Winchester Little Theatre Stagedoor New Scripts Festival held Feb. 8 to 10, at Handley Library in Winchester, Virginia. She was chosen for the full-cast ... Continue Reading February 2019 Class Notes
January 2019 Class Notes
Tommy Joe Anderson (C ’69), a radio producer for WABE-FM in Atlanta, Georgia, was recently interviewed by the non-profit organization, ArtsATL. Listen to “Q&A: Tommy Joe Anderson on classical ... Continue Reading January 2019 Class Notes
December 2018 Class Notes
On Nov. 29, 2018, Marquis Who’s Who, the world’s premier publisher of biographical profiles, presented Vincent Tornello (C ’72) with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. (Pictured to ... Continue Reading December 2018 Class Notes
November 2018 Class Notes
On Oct. 20, Joel Puckett’s (C ’99) “Short Stories” concerto was performed by the Reading Symphony Orchestra at the Santander Performing Arts Center in Reading, Pennsylvania. On Nov. 3, Gail Huntley ... Continue Reading November 2018 Class Notes
October 2018 Class Notes
Paul Noble (C ’56) is pleased to announce that composer John Rutter, and Oxford University Press have joined with him in the dedication of his arrangement of Rutter’s “Agnus Dei,” from his “Mass of ... Continue Reading October 2018 Class Notes
September 2018 Class Notes
On July 10, the U.S. Marine Band performed its 220th anniversary concert at Strathmore Hall in Bethesda, Maryland, which included a performance of Paul Noble’s (C ’56) arrangement of William Walton’s ... Continue Reading September 2018 Class Notes
August 2018 Class Notes
Cenira Schreiber (C ’95, C ’06) participated as a piano soloist in the Minas Gerais Symphony Orchestra’s “Winter of the Arts” performance. Lawrence Webb (AS ’97, AS ’04) has accepted a position as ... Continue Reading August 2018 Class Notes
July 2018 Class Notes
Ann K. Werner Van Dyke (C ’68) performed with the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Chorus at DAR Constitution Hall during the DAR’s 127th Continental Congress in Washington, D.C. Van Dyke is ... Continue Reading July 2018 Class Notes
June 2018 Class Notes
On May 11, Anne Carr Regan (C ’74) was the conductor for the premiere performance of Professor Emeritus James H. Laster’s arrangement of “Praise the Lord Who Reigns Above” at Braddock Street United ... Continue Reading June 2018 Class Notes
May 2018 Class Notes
After 36 years as director of the music ministry and organist at the Braddock Street United Methodist Church (BSUMC) in Winchester, Virginia, Judy Barefoot Connelly (C ’74) is retiring at the end of ... Continue Reading May 2018 Class Notes
April 2018 Class Notes
Jim Meredith (C ’74) founded James River Music, where he features his music for school bands and orchestras. Meredith also co-authored the book titled, “Preparing Your School Band For Adjudication: ... Continue Reading April 2018 Class Notes