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CMENC Representative
Devin Dehne
Devin Dehne is in his fifth year at Marian University in Fond du Lac, WI. He is majoring in Instrumental and Choral/General Music Education. His main instrument is the clarinet. After graduation he hopes to get a job at a small school teaching both band and choir.
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Secretary
Jacki Thering
I'm a fifth-year senior at UW-Oshkosh, majoring in instrumental and general music education and violin performance. I have served as President and Vice-President of CMENC chapter #430, and this is my third year on the State Steering Committee. I play violin, viola, and piano and enjoy playing chamber music.
The role of the secretary is to take minutes for each of the Steering Committee meetings and to facilitate communication between the Committee and CMENC chapters around the state. Some duties include compiling an up-to-date contact list of all Wisconsin CMENC chapters and forwarding the State Newsletter and other messages to these chapters.
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Tri-M Advocate
Ashley Singer
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MIOSM Chair
Josh Mittendorf
I'm going to be a senior music education major at UW-Eau Claire. My area is instrumental music, and I play the string bass. I am originally from Eagan, MN. I am the current Vice President of the UW- Eau Claire CMENC chapter, and I held the office of advocate last year.
As the MiOSM chair I will take the state initiative and promote ways in which each chapter can participate in this event. I will be writing several articles in the Newsletter that will give ideas as well as updates on MiOSM.
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CMENC Membership Advocate
Anthony Kading
Anthony Kading is currently a Senior Instrumental and General Music Education Major at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater. Tony has been actively involved in Music education since he started teaching private lessons in 1997. Since then he has attended UW-Whitewater for a B.A. in Music. Tony then attended the University of Wisconsin Platteville for his Instrumental and General Music Certification. At Platteville he helped in the reinstitution of their CMENC chapter. Tony recently transferred back to the University of Wisconsin Whitewater to be close to home. Along with his academic pursuits he keeps busy with private lessons, compositions, and arrangements for academic wind ensembles, and jazz bands. He teaches with the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps, and for the past two years has been an assistant director of the UW-Whitewater band camps.
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Collegiate Conference Co-Chair
Eleanor Petersen
Eleanor Peterson is a senior at UW-River Falls. She is a secondary education-instrumental music major, her main instrument being horn, and she plans to student teach Fall 2009. Eleanor's main interests are in music history and music theory and hopes to continue onto graduate school for either subject or musicology. In her spare time, she guest lectures in music history or Music 100 classes and helps out with her former high school's band program, learning how to be a band director through an internship. Eleanor's role in the Wisconsin State CMENC Steering Committee is to co-chair of the CMENC Mid-Winter Conference in February and is the compiler of the resource section for the newsletter. |
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Collegiate Conference Co-Chair
Amanda Lewin
Amanda Lewin is a senior at UW-Stevens Point studying instrumental, choral, and general education. She is a two time past President for UWSP's chapter of CMENC, the current President of Delta Omicron, UWSP's co-ed music fraternity, and a member of ACDA. Amanda is currently the state's Conference Chair and is busy planning for the Collegiate Conference (formerly known as Mini-Conference) on February 28th, 2009.
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Newsletter/Facebook Editor
Schuyler Gardner
Schuyler Gardner is currently a super senior at Lawrence University. She is pursuing double degrees with a Bachelor of Music in Choral/General Music Education and a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies with a minor in Japanese. She also works as a manager for two of the Lawrence Academy of Music Girl Choirs. Additionally, she teaches music theory classes and sight singing through the Lawrence Academy of Music. She is also a theory tutor at Lawrence. This year will be Schuyler’s third year as an ArtsBridge scholar. Through this program she works to integrate the arts (in her case, music) into other school subject areas, such as math, science, English, or social studies. After graduating, she hopes to become an elementary school general music teacher and work with a children’s choir. She loves teaching and working with children and is very passionate about the importance (and fun!) of music education. This is her second year on the WMEA CMENC Steering Committee and serving as the CMENC newsletter editor.
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Web Editor
Amber Pamperin
Amber Pamperin is a senior at St. Norbert College studying instrumental and general education and will be student teaching in the spring. She is the current President of St. Norbert's chapter of CMENC and is actively involved in the music department. She plays percussion, saxophone, and piano. This is her first year on the steering committee and is serving as WebEditor.
The WebEditor makes sure that the website stays up to date and makes changes on a monthly basis.
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Steering Committee Advisor
Alan Rieck
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