In memoriam.(Obituary)(Brief Article)

Editor's Note: MTNA would like to recognize those individuals whose lives made a mark in the music teaching profession. We note with sorrow their passing.

Herbert H. Bowker, 88, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, died May 6, 2001. He was the co-founder of the Massachusetts MTA in the 1960s and a nationally certified organ teacher with an established private studio in New Bedford. He served as organist and choir director of the Unitarian Church in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, for thirty-four years.

Cheryl Boyd-Waddell, voice professor and director of vocal activities at Clayton College and State University in Georgia, died April 27, 2002. She resided in Marietta. Waddell served on the national College Faculty Forum Advisory Committee and was an MTNA member since 1991. In addition to giving recitals and teaching, she sang soprano in Thamyris, an award-winning, nationally recognized chamber ensemble.

Dorothy DeLay, 84, died March 24, 2002. One of the most influential violin teachers of the twentieth century, she taught for more than fifty years. Since 1974, she held the Dorothy Richard Starling Chair at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, commuting monthly from her home in Upper Nyack, New York. DeLay served as a grandmotherly mentor to a host of virtuoso violinists. After completing her education at Oberlin College, Michigan State University and Juilliard, she joined the Juilliard faculty in 1948, followed by the Aspen Music School faculty in 1970. She received an honorary doctorate of performing arts from the University of Cincinnati in June 2001 and was honored with the National Medal of the Arts in 1994, the National Music Council's American Eagle Award in 1995 and Yale University's Sanford Medal in 1997.

James J. Edmonds, 71, professor emeritus of piano and music theory at Eastern Washington University (EWU), died February 7, 2002, in a two-car collision. He received a bachelor's degree from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and master's and doctorate degrees from The University of Michigan. Edmonds was a past president of both Washington State MTA and the MTNA Northwest Division. He was involved in MTNA competitions as state and division chair and an official accompanist at all competition levels. He was selected by the student government as the EWU Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year for 1967-1968. In 1987, he was awarded the Frederick Douglass Distinguished Scholar Award, presented by the National Council of Black Studies Pacific Northwest.

Joseph Esposito, of Tustin, California, died in July 2001. He had been a member of MTNA since October 1949.

Michael Hammond, 62, died in January 2002, one week after taking office as the chair for the National ...