Meet the 2003 Foundation Fellows. (MTNA Foundation Fund News).

Irene Peery-Fox

Irene Peery-Fox, NCTM, began her piano studies in Canada, where she eventually received awards and the highest marks in the country from both the Royal Irene Peery-Fox Conservatory of Toronto Utah and the University of Alberta. She received further degrees from the Juilliard School and the Peabody Conservatory. She is currently a professor at Brigham Young University in Utah. She is well-known as a performer, lecturer and teacher. In 1997, she was nominated for a Presidential Seal of Honor. Peery-Fox holds master teacher certification from MTNA.

Eloise Halvorson

The daughter of homesteaders in North Dakota, Eloise Halvorson was a piano teacher for fifty-eight years in Williston, North Dakota, before her death in February 2002. She was president of the North Dakota MTA (NDMTA) and the North Dakota Federation of Music Clubs and founded the Northwest MTA local association. In 1995, she was named Teacher of the Year by the NDMTA. She was a member of the faculty of the University of North Dakota at Williston for sixteen years and received the Sioux Award, the highest alumni and foundation award, from the University in 1994. She was organist for her church for forty years and was a leader in the Head Start program in Williston.

Margaret Lorince

Retired professor emerita of West Virginia University (WVU), Margaret Lorince, NCTM, is now an independent piano teacher on the Isle of Palms, South Carolina. While at WVU, she taught piano performance, developed an undergraduate and graduate pedagogy emphasis program and directed the preparatory department. She served as assistant chair of music from 1963 to 1965 and assistant dean of the College of Creative Arts from 1985 to 1986. Lorince has held numerous MTNA state, division and national offices, serving as national president from 1991 to 1993. Past president of the MTNA FOUNDATION, she served on the Board of Trustees and was most recently a member of the Planned Giving Committee. She holds degrees from Oklahoma City University and the Eastman School of Music.

Ruth Edwards