New foundation fellow named.Barbara Wasson, MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National Association MTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee) member front Dayton, Ohio Dayton is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Montgomery County. As of the 2005 census estimate, the population of Dayton was 158,873. , was presented with the MTNA FOUNDATION Fellow award at the Ohio Music Teachers Association (OMTA OMTA Ontario Massage Therapist Association (Canada) OMTA Ohio Music Teachers Association OMTA Old Mobeetie Texas Association OMTA Oregon Music Teachers Association, Inc. ) annual conference on November 15. Amy Immerman, OMTA president, said following the presentation: "Presenting Barbara with the MTNA FOUNDATION Fellow award was a very special moment at our state conference. Barbara was truly surprised, truly honored, and those of us in attendance were very touched. She received a standing ovation, and there were tears of joy in many eyes, including my own." Barbara and her late husband, Audley, founded their piano studio in Dayton in 1946. She has taught at Cedarville College and Wright State University, both in Ohio, and at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Its origins come from two sources: the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, formed in 1867 as part of a girls' finishing school, and the College of Music of Cincinnati, which opened in 1878. . Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Barbara earned a B.A. degree from Vassar College, an M.M. degree from Chicago Musical College Chicago Musical College is currently a division of Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University It was founded in 1867, less than four decades after the city of Chicago was incorporated. and pursued doctoral studies at DePauw University and Indiana University. A member of MTNA for thirty-three years, she has served as OMTA Western District chairman, OMTA president and was the national chair for the MTNA-Baldwin Junior High School Piano Performance Competition. She also is an active member of Mu Phi Epsilon Mu Phi Epsilon (ΜΦΕ) is a co-ed international professional music fraternity and honor society. It boasts over 75,000 members in 128 collegiate chapters and 74 alumni chapters in the US and abroad. and the Dayton Music Club. After sixty years of teaching, she continues to instruct students in her home in Centerville, Ohio, maintaining a full schedule, reaching twenty-three students four to five hours a day. Wasson is listed in Who's Who of American Women and Who's Who in the Midwest. |
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