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DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS friend of the arts Chapter, and Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. He taught music for 37 years in public education and was a member of the ad hoc faculty for the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha and Carroll College. In 2004, he received the Morris D. Hayes Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in promoting the study of choral music in Wisconsin schools. His works have been published by Appliance Publications, World Library of Sacred Music, Hope Publishing, GIA, and Kimmel Publications. Now in his sixtieth year of church work, he and wife, Rho initiate Suzanne, offered a series of workshops and programs in parishes under the sponsorship of the Anglican Diocese of the Yukon. He teaches private lessons in voice, music theory & composition, music history, and organ. Paul McDaniel Paul McDaniel was initiated by the Muncie Alumnae Chapter in June. He received his Bachelor's in Music Education from Indiana State University and Master's from Ball State University. His teaching career began at New Ross School in Montgomery, IN, where ht taught grades kindergarten through twelfth. He later taught instruments for Yorktown schools. For 35 years, he served the Muncie Community School System before retiring. He played clarinet for the Muncie Hometown Band, Alexandria Community Band, Four Winds clarinet quartet, Lions Club state band, and served as area clarinet chair at Anderson University. He was a member of several dance bands and was instrumental in organizing the Muncie Youth Symphony. He conducted the Muncie Musician Union Band, now the Muncie Community Band performed several roles with the Muncie Civic Theatre, including leads in The King and I and The Music Man. As music director, he oversaw six musicals. He is past president and member of the executive board of the local American Federation of Musicians. John F Mehnert . John Mehnert was initiated by the Kansas City Alumnae Chapter in May. The son of Gamma initiate and Kansas City Alumnae Chapter member Lucille Mehnert, he grew up listening to Lucille's piano students and was inundated with classical music all his life. He studied piano and cornet in grade school and performed in highschool bands. He and wife Tau-Sigma initiate Millie Burch Menhert patronize local classical music organizations, and John supported Millie during her terms as president of the Kansas City and Missouri Music Teachers Associations and Kansas City Federated Teachers of Music and Fine Arts. Don Schmaus Don Schmaus was initiated by the Orlando Alumnae Chapter in March 2006. He graduated cum laude from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, where he received his Bachelor's and Master's of Music degrees in Education and Performance. He received a Performer's Certificate in Trumpet and performed on many of the famed recordings of the Eastman Wind Ensemble under the direction of National Arts Associate Dr. Fredrick Fennell. He served as assistant band director at Purdue University, where he founded the Purdue Wind Ensemble, and was band director at Syracuse University. Moving to Florida, he was band director at Lake Brantley High School and Lyman High School, where he was the 1995 Teacher of the Year and a 2002 Hall of Fame inductee. He was appointed director of the Orlando Concert Band for six seasons and has taught at the Music Department of Valencia (FL) Community College. He is married to Rho initiate Kathryn Schmaus. SUTHERLAND continued from page 8 Metropolitan Opera with Lucia di Lammermoor. In that performance, her fame grew to legend as her high E-flat end notes garnered ovations in durations of five and twelve minutes. Sutherland soon began an international tour of the world's greatest opera houses, especially the Met, where she performed 223 times, including works with Luciano Pavarotti and Marilyn Horne. With Pavarotti, who proclaimed her "the voice of the century" and "the greatest coloratura soprano of all time," she recorded. Verdi's Requiem in 1967 and Puccini's Turandot and 1972. In 1978, she was named a Dame Commander by Queen Elizabeth II. She returned to Covent Garden in 1990 on New Year's Eve at a farewell recital, appearing in Die Fledermaus and performing duets with Pavarotti and Horne. In retirement as a performer, she judged vocal competitions and presented master classes. In 2004, she received a Kennedy Center Honor for outstanding achievement throughout her career; National Arts Associate composer John Williams was a fellow honoree that year. In an Associated Press article of Sutherland's death, SAI Honorary member Renée Fleming called her "an inspiration ... not only for her glorious instrument, but also as a courageous artist who explored unknown bel canto works, now thankfully part of the standard repertoire today." "No soprano in recorded history has sung with the same virtuosic perfection," Fleming said. Fellow SAI Honorary Member Deborah Voigt is also quoted as saying "she really brought bel canto alive to latter 20th century audiences. I can't imagine her achievements being duplicated." P2P PE O PLE TO -PE OP LE Music Brings Hope Back to Haiti People-to-People donated musical instruments and accessories to The Fanfar of Cange, a musical ensemble including doctors and community members from the Partners in Health (Zanmi Lasante) site in Cange, Haiti. "Special thanks from all us lucky Cangeois who get to hear the music, and even more, to see the joy of the youngsters who have the means of making it." — Jackie Williams, assistant, Eglise Bon Sauveur Don't Delay, Donate Today! Giving the Gift of Music Around the World An SAI Philanthropies, Inc. Project www.sai-national.org sai-national.org FALL 2010 PAN PIPES 39

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