Eastern Division.

In this month's column we hear from Delaware President Jacqueline Faulcon:

The Peace Piano Perform-a-thon at the Kimmel Center was superb. The nine studios, ten teachers and their twenty-one students performed and raised more than $3,400 for UNICEF.

North Delaware MTA and Southern Delaware MTA celebrated their first student recital programs on October 24. Special congratulations to Helen Hales Hoffmann and Lillian Schaube for their wonderful program planning. Kudos to Diane Otey, NCMTA president, and Joan Craft, SDMTA president.

Our forty-fourth annual DMTA convention was held at The Wilmington Music School November 6. Lisa Papili, president-elect, organized the program, which included David Brown's presentation "Beethoven and Liszt Connection." A question-and-answer period ended the session. A luncheon followed, spiked with the culinary artistry of our president-elect, who also led the discussion "Why Practice?"

The next speaker was Mitzie DeWhitt, whose new book Aristoxenus' Ghost is a tribute to the musical-scientific-spiritual mind. We truly are indebted to DeWhitt for the depth of her research.

The winners' recital was the final event of the exciting day. Students and teachers are to be complimented and praised, with special accolades to Paula Gardiner, NCTM, for organizing this event.

On a final note, Jacqueline and Clarence Faulcon have been performing for the residents at Cokesbury once a month.

--Millie Eben, NCTM

Reading, Pennsylvania