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igma Alpha Iota is pleased to announce Ruth Sieber Johnson as
Convention Honoree and keynote speaker at the 2025 National
Convention Welcome Luncheon. She is now Executive Director
Emerita, having served the Fraternity as Executive Director for over
thirty-two years.
Ruth's SAI journey began in 1982 at the University of Arkansas Little Rock,
where she received a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance (magna cum
laude). There, she was an initiate of Epsilon Tau, the first pledge class of the
reactivated chapter. She served the chapter as Chaplain (now called VPR),
then later Editor and Membership Advisor the year after graduation. She also
attended MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois, and did graduate work
at UALR in teaching the gifted and talented. She received a number of awards,
including the University of Arkansas' Music Department Faculty Award for
Outstanding Musicianship (1982); the SAI scholastic award from Epsilon Tau
(1983); and was a finalist in the National Association of Teachers of Singing
(NATS) Artist Awards (1984). She was also a finalist in the Memphis Regional
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RUTH SIEBER JOHNSON RUTH SIEBER JOHNSON
Ruth as Rosina in Ruth as Rosina in The Barber of The Barber of
Seville, Seville, Arkansas Opera Theater Arkansas Opera Theater
Performing at the Bach Aria Festival Performing at the Bach Aria Festival
