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distinguished members medical music therapy has led to new techniques for treating premature babies. An FSU faculty member since 1976, Standley is recognized throughout the United States as the foremost authority on medical music therapy. Researching the effect of music on premature babies, or "preemies," she found that they increased their suckling rates 2.5 times when exposed to music, thus helping to increase their weight. Her research led Standley to develop a musical pacifier device that has received a U.S. patent and been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Standley's work with preemies also led to the establishment of most of the musical protocols used in hospital neonatal units today. Infants learn to suck along with reassuring sounds of CD-based lullabies (all recorded by female performers) while worried mothers and care-givers are pacified at the same time. In addition to her research activities, Standley has directed and mentored nearly 200 graduate students in their research efforts. For more than 25 years, students from FSU have presented original research at the American Music Therapy Association's annual conference. She has served for many years on the Faculty Senate, and was chairwoman of the Graduate Policy Committee for nearly two decades. Her publications include Medical Music Therapy: A Model Program for Clinical Practice, Education, Training, and Research and Music Therapy with Premature Infants: Research and Developmental Interventions. Dr. Standley received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music Therapy and her doctorate in Habilitative Sciences from FSU. NATIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATE a man or woman who is nationally recognized for distinguished contribution to the arts Dr. Duane Hulbert Dr. Duane Hulbert was initiated as a National Arts Associate by the Tacoma Alumnae Chapter in April. The Chair of Piano and Professor of Music at Washington's University of Puget Sound, Hulbert's areas of expertise are solo piano performance and teaching. He maintains an active schedule of performances across the US and in the Puget Sound area. Glazunov: Complete Piano Music, Vol., Hulbert's CD recording of the piano works by the late-romantic Russian composer Alexander Glazunov, was nominated for a Grammy award in 2002. His primary focus is the area of teaching. Many of his students, including some who have won international competitions, have gone on to important music careers and hold prestigious faculty positions in music across the country. As a member of the Puget Sound faculty since 1986, Professor Hulbert teaches studio piano, class piano, piano literature and pedagogy, music theory and chamber music. In 2005 he earned the title of Distinguished Professor. He earned his Bachelor's of Music and Master's of Music from the Juilliard School and his Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of Music. He is the first prizewinner of the 1980 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and won awards in the 1981 Leeds Competition in England and the 1985 Carnegie Hall International American Music Competition. He has appeared as a recitalist at the Merkin Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. He has appeared in concerto performances with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Tacoma Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta, and the Seattle Symphony. friend of the arts a man or woman who is supportive of and actively involved in the arts at a local or regional level Due to errors appearing in the original initiation articles, we present the corrected reports on the following two Friends of the Arts: Linda Combellick Linda Combellick was initiated by the Denver Alumnae Chapter in February. Linda earned a degree in Vocal Performance and Music Education from Metropolitan Community College in Denver and a degree in Theater Performance from the University of Northern Colorado. She taught general music in public schools then opened her own voice and piano studio, Vocal Visions. She is active with the National Association of Teachers of Singing and in the Music Teachers National Association where she served as Achievement Day Chairperson and has entered students in Vocal Concerto and National Senior Performance competitions. An accomplished vocalist and performer, Linda was a member of the Mario Singers, an operatic quartet, and has performed in dinner theatre, mystery dinner theater, and melodramas. In 1998, Linda produced a CD entitled Extase in which she sings selections of music by Debussy with piano accompaniment by Catherine Motter. Trudy Dierschow Trudy Dierschow was initiated by the Denver Alumnae Chapter in February. She studied piano, cello, and harmony at the Alvernia Conservatory of Music in Chicago and private piano with Professor Ascan Kittner. She has taught piano privately for 35 years, first in Chicago and then in Colorado. Trudy became a lifelong accompanist for her sister Sylvia, an accomplished violinist. A member of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, she was on their honor roll every year because of the consistently high scores her students Dierschow achieved. She was also an active member in the Music Teachers National Association, Suburban Northwest. She was church organist and choir accompanist at St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Arvada, CO for 12 years. She has been director of the Holy Cross Lutheran Churchh Ringers handbell choir in Wheat Ridge, CO for 22 years. She has also served as interim organist at St. FRIENDS continued on page 26 sai-national.org SUMMER 2012 PAN PIPES 25

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