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In memoriam 2019

The College of Music community remembers these dear faculty, alumni, colleagues and friends who passed away this year.

Parley Leland Belnap (DMA ’75)
Veteran and university music teacher

Dwight Earl Beman (MM ’73)
Veteran and opera singer

Hubert Bird
Music professor and composer

Donna J. Bogard (BM ’53, MA ’71, PhD ’83)
Music teacher and church choir director

Diane Dunn
Longtime member of the Artist Series Advisory Board

Eve Anne Eichorn (DMA ’82)
University voice teacher

Ruth June Hale (BM ’55, MM ’81)
Chamber musician and private music teacher

Theodore C. Hansen (BM ’64)

Daniel Hoggatt (DMA ’87)
Professor of church music, organist and choir conductor

Robert Eldon Hunter (MM ’56)
Minister

Lloyd W. Jones, Jr. (BME ’50)
Veteran, high school teacher and church choir director

Ann Levy
Longtime music supporter

Frank M. Light (BME ’50)
Music store owner and church choir director

John Mantey
Longtime music supporter and benefactor of the Mantey Faculty Fellowship

Robert Melnikoff
Longtime music supporter

Frank Parce (MME ’65)
School music teacher and benefactor of the Parce Office

Leonard Perlmutter
Longtime music supporter

Ray C. Phillips (BME ’57, MME ’65)

Mary Ramsour (BM ’94, MM ’97)
Church music director

Georgia Lonnberg Raun (BME ’55)
Church choir director

Robert Warren Schmidt
Multi-instrumentalist and realtor

Keith A. Simpson(BME ’58, MME ’69)
School band director and church choir director

Maureen Spaid
Longtime jazz supporter

Martin Trotsky
Longtime music supporter and benefactor of the Gloria and Martin Trotsky Music Scholarship

Jeanne Lindstrom Varney (MME ’67)
Elementary school music teacher

Marilyn Louise (Curt) Vincent (MME ’59)
School music teacher and university administrator