Sigma Alpha Iota

SAVING THE MUSIC The Team. First row, left to right: Kappa sisters Rose Munderloh, Renee Pflughaupt, Becky Smith, and Faculty Advisor Pamela Starr. Second row: Jenny Wood, Madeline Hafner, Kirsten Humlicek, Johanna Kennedy, and Carman Psota. Third row: Zach Brown (LPS), Ben Koch, Phi Mu Alpha, Dave Sanderson (Lincoln Public Schools), and Raymond Lowther, Superintendent of Music, Lincoln Public Schools. [Not shown: then Kappa Chapter President, Elizabeth Fritton] No words can begin to express University of Nebraska-Lincoln), along with their faculty advisor, a student member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (the national men's music fraternity), and two Phi Mu alumni and current LPS teachers reported to Dr. Lowther at the new LPS headquarters. The workers used their logistical skills to create an efficient system of unloading, sorting, and re-shelving the many boxes of music parts. This project also called for considerable muscle. The Kappa sisters and friends worked doggedly for more than five hours, unloading approximately seven storage pallets, each one containing about 300 boxes of scores and parts. The workers only took one short break for refreshment and were reluctantly pried away from their work at the end of the day, and the end of the available material to unpack. Despite a few aching muscles, the afternoon was permeated by camaraderie and the sense of a job worth doing and well done. With the help of the Kappa chapter and friends, the Music Library of the Lincoln Public School system is now back in business, and being used by teachers and students, including some SAI student-teachers! As Dr. Lowther put it recently: our appreciation to the members of is Professor of Music UNL chapters of Sigma Alpha Iota History at the University and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia for their of Nebraska-Lincoln, commitment and volunteer hours. RESTORE continued from page 4 and has been the faculty Their efforts in helping to reclaim advisor for the Kappa our library is deeply appreciated and Chapter, Xi Province, for several years. She is also valued. This has been a devastating Secretary of the American Musicological Society. loss and tragedy for us. Seeing these She has a Bachelor's in Voice from Harpur College, students step forward remind me of an Master of Library Science from Columbia the power of music in coming together University, and a PhD from Yale University. as a music community which goes far Her research and teaching interests include beyond the making of music. Renaissance music, Early Modern England, opera, In answering the call for help from the Lincoln Public Schools the Kappa chapter was privileged to be able to fulfill one of the important national and film music. initiate of the Eta Nu also one of its basic purposes: "to adhere to Chapter and the recipient the highest standards of citizenship in school, The authors wish to acknowledge and Newly elected Jamie Reimer is an music education through volunteerism…" and Region 3 Regional Officer objectives of our fraternity: "to advocate for community, and fraternity life." Pamela Starr of the SAI 1999 John F. Kennedy Center Internship, 2005 and 2008 Alumnae Professional Development Grants, the thank the following people for their assistance in 2006 Graduate Performance Award, and the preparing this article: Elizabeth Fritton, Johanna 2008 Doctoral Grant. She recently served as Xi A Kennedy, Dottie Ladman, and Raymond Lowther. Province Officer. sai-national.org SUMMER 2012 PAN PIPES 21

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