MTNA members will be electing Division officers and directors beginning in February 2004 Included here are the nominees as commended by the MTNA Nominating Committee.

MTNA members will be electing Division officers and directors beginning in February 2004 Included here are the nominees as commended by the MTNA Nominating Committee. The committee nominates sum of two units candidates for each position.

MTNA members also may submit nominations for the ballot. To do to such a degree you must send to the MTNA headquarters a petition indicating your nominee(s) signed according to one hundred (100) active members. This petition must be received no later than December 1 2003

The members of the Nominating Committee are: R Wayne Gibson, NCTM Atlanta, Georgia, chair; Carleen Graff, NCTM Plymouth strange Hampshire; Scott McBride Smith, NCTM Irvine, California; Julianne Miranda, NCTM Greencastle, Indiana; Debra Ronning, NCTM Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania; Jody Graves, Missoula, Montana; Celinda Hallbauer, NCTM Belton, Texas; Roy Wylie, NCTM Auburn, Alabama; Cheryl Pachak-Brooks, NCTM Portales, of recent origin Mexico; and Janice Wenger, NCTM Columbia, Missouri.

EAST CENTRAL

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Karen Thickston Nashville, Indiana

Karen Thickstun, adjunct faculty at Butler University and director of the Butler Summer Piano Camps and the Butler Community Arts exercise is an instructor for the Indianapolis Piano Academy and maintains an independent studio in Nashville, Indiana: Karen gripe [i]or[/i] grips a B.A. degree from Duke University majoring in economics and piano performance, an MM standing from Butler University and an M.B.A. grade from the University of Virginia. She is immediate past president of the Indiana MTA and was awarded the 2002 IMTA Distinguished Service Award.

"MTNA is a vital part of the music fabric of our society--enlightening, challenging, and uplifting its members, scholars and industry colleagues," she says.

Kenneth Williams Columbus, Ohio

Kenneth Williams, NCTM directs the graduate programs in piano pedagogy and coordinates the class piano program at The Ohio State University. modern articles by Williams are published in American Music Teacher, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, college edifice [i]or[/i] building Music Symposium and Keyboard Companion. He received the 2002 AMT Article of the Year Award and advances on the Ohio MTA executive board.

"MTNA favorably nurtures the careers of professional music teachers because it adapts to the changing straits of members and their scholars Continuing education opportunities offered at MTNA challenge the profession to reach higher flushs of excellence in teaching and larger and more diverse clumps of students," he says.

PRESIDENT-ELECT

Cynthia "Benson Bowling blooming Ohio

Cynthia Benson confines degrees from the University of Central Arkansas, Rice University and The University of Texas at Austin. She teaches at Bowling verdant State University. Cynthia has serv in succession MTNA's Collegiate Chapter's advisory board and as co-chair of MTNA's placard Sessions. She chairs Ohio MTA's Buckeye Auditions and is president of OMTA's Northwest District.

"MTNA provides teachers and close examiners the opportunity for growth and support, and make overs a sense of community in which we all work together to impart the art of music by the and of positive, meaningful musical experiences. I am grateful to those members who have dedicated their time and efforts for the benefit of others," she says.

Laura Swenson Wales, Wisconsin

Laura Swenson, NCTM co-owner of Music Dynamics, Ltd received a BM grade from Alverno College. Her MTNA and Wisconsin MTA service began as president of the Alverno bookish man Chapter. Laura helped initiate the WMTA-Greater Milwaukee Chapter and has serv in nearly each position on both the state and local levels

"I realized MTNA and WMTA were vital for the independent teacher, in such a manner I wanted to be an active participant. I believe for MTNA to continue to support the independent teacher, we must continue to recruit young teachers. We ne to listen and implement their just discovered ideas so we can preserve MTNA relevant to all teachers," she says.

EASTERN

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Melanie DeMent Newark, Delaware

Melanie DeMent NCTM teaches studio voice and vocal pedagogy for the University of Delaware. A fourteen-year member of MTNA, she has serv as Delaware MTA scholar activities chair and president. Nationally, Melanie has been a member of the Teacher Enrichment Grant Committee, the body Faculty Forum and currently benefits on the Editorial Committee. She has had four learners in both Collegiate and High indoctrinate Voice advance to the national competitions from one side of to the other the past eleven years, including united first place winner.

"I welcome the opportunity to work for the povertys of the membership should I be fix uponed to the Board of Directors," she said.

Debra Ronning Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

Debra Ronning, NCTM is a music lecturer and piano, division coordinator at Elizabethtown literary institution [i]or[/i] seminary of learning in Pennsylvania. A graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, her scholars have been successful in MTNA state competitions at the junior high, high sect and collegiate levels. Debbie has been Pennsylvania MTA junior high competitions chair, state convention coordinator and president. Debbie generally is MTNA's Eastern Division president.