Since he became executive director, the association has grown by almost 4,000 members, member and student services have increased, and a new headquarters has been built. Robert Floyd’s music education career has spanned almost five decades beginning in Richardson, Texas, and leading to his current position as the executive director of the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA). Thus far, Dampf has taught 31 Missouri All-State choir members and 21 Missouri All-State show choir members. She has also conducted performances at the White House, Carnegie Hall, the Epcot Center, the Rose Bowl Parade, and the Lincoln, Jefferson and U.S. Spayde Award for Choral Excellence from the Missouri Choral Directors Association, among other recognitions.
She was named 2014 Teacher of the Year in the Jefferson City Public School District and a Grammy Music Teacher of the Year Nominee, and she received the 2014 Luther T. Today, Dampf still holds this position while also directing the children’s choir at the California United Church of Christ and the Missouri Future Farmers of America State Chorus.ĭampf has received numerous accolades for her work throughout her career. She worked in California schools from 1986 to 2007 when she took a high school choral director job with Jefferson City High School in Jefferson City, Missouri. She began her teaching career as a choral director at the junior high and high school levels in California, Missouri. Three years later, he became one of Iowa’s first recognized mentors through the Iowa Model Excellence Mentorship Program, working with teachers to become successful music educators.īeth Dampf has been involved in music education since her first job out of college. In 2001, Haugen was inducted into the Minnesota Music Educators Association Hall of Fame. Since his retirement in 1998, he has presented more than 15 clinics at different conventions, including the Nebraska Bandmasters Convention, Minnesota Music Educators Convention, Iowa Bandmasters Convention and Canadian Bandmasters Convention. Haugen was elected to Phi Beta Mu, an honorary band directors organization, in 1996. Moving on to teach at the collegiate level in 1998, he taught at the University of Minnesota–Morris, his alma mater, where he currently stands as the supervisor for music education student teachers. In 1985, Haugen founded the Tri-State Band Judging Association, where he continues as the head of the organization. Moving around to eight different school districts, he eventually settled in Alexandra, Minnesota, where his marching band placed first or second in 80 competitive parades. After graduating from Luther College in 1961, he continued playing music for the Austin (Minnesota) Symphony Orchestra and began his first year of teaching in Alden, Minnesota. Tom Haugen has viewed music as a passion, rather than a career. He also went on to teach music at the collegiate level.Ĭhesebrough, who has been involved with the New Hampshire Music Educators Association in some capacity since 1981, served as a representative to the New Hampshire Band Directors association for two different districts, and is currently the organization’s president-elect. In 2001, he left to pursue a doctoral degree in Musical Arts in Conducting. While at Lin-Wood, Chesebrough also taught and conducted at nearby universities. By the time he left in 2001, Lin-Wood had a sequential K-12 music program that was both well supported and respected. During his time at Lin-Wood, he worked to transform music education in the district.
Lin-Wood was small, and lacked the music background of other schools when Chesebrough arrived. He worked primarily as a music teacher for the district for the next 20 years. After six years in Ohio, Chesebrough took a job with Lin-Wood Public Schools in Lincoln, New Hampshire. He began regular, full-time music teaching in 1975 with Princeton City Schools in Cincinnati, Ohio. James Chesebrough has dedicated the past 39 years of his life toward music education. Section 1 – James Chesebrough, New Hampshire This year, six individuals were selected as section winners and 13 were selected as state winners. The awards recognize high school or college band, choral or orchestral directors, supervisors and adjudicators. The Music Advisory Committee selected the recipients based on their outstanding contributions to high school music programs and activities. Nineteen individuals have been selected to receive the 2014-15 Outstanding Music Educator Award given by the NFHS Music Association.
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