The College of Music community remembers these dear faculty, alumni, colleagues and friends who passed away this year.
Mark Leonard Aldrich
Music supporter, music educator, conductor, Salem Winds/Ascutney Winds founder, U.S. Army Band member
Alexander Barton Allred (BM ’19)
Violinist, pianist, composer, CU Boulder master’s student in recording arts, U.S. Air Force “Tops in Blue” member
Belle F. Anderson
Music supporter, University of Colorado staff member, researcher, traveler, community connector, and purveyor of fresh produce, herbs and flowers
Kathryn Arnold
Music supporter, English teacher, president of League of Women Voters of Nassau County
Betty Paisley Bangs
Music supporter, speech therapist, high school teacher and college/university instructor, active community member, traveler
E. Frances Barnett
Music supporter
Katharine S. Berenson (BM ’78)
Music supporter, Kate Berenson Collaborative Piano Scholarship benefactor, College of Music National Alumni Council member, philanthropic advisor
Joan Packard Birkland
Music supporter, athlete, women’s sports advocate, co-founder and executive director of Sportswomen of Colorado, member of Colorado Sports Hall of Fame, Colorado Golf Hall of Fame and Colorado Tennis Hall of Fame
Stanley A. Black
Music supporter, lawyer/partner, U.S. Navy officer and pilot, bush pilot in Africa, traveler, athlete, philanthropist, active community member, philanthropist
Bernard L. Bloom
Music supporter, jazz pianist and band member, Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra board member, mental health researcher, distinguished clinical psychologist, CU Boulder Clinical Psychology Training Program director, U.S. Army Air Corps member
Sandy Blue
Music supporter, speech and drama teacher, active community member
David Warren Bolton (BME ’61, MM ’63)
Music supporter, music teacher, naturalist, outdoor enthusiast
Loretta J. Bourland
Music supporter, active community member
Virginia Breaker
Music supporter, math teacher, real estate broker, traveler, philanthropist
Lawrence S. Burt, PE
Music supporter
Duane P. Chesley, PE
Music supporter and patron of the arts, engineer, U.S. Army Reserve colonel and commander, craftsman, outdoorsman
Philip E. Cohen
Music supporter, social studies teacher and baseball coach, U.S. Navy baseball player on the USS Saipan, handball player, historian, active community member
Claudia A. Colwell
Music supporter, German teacher, nature enthusiast, active community member
Alice Loraine Cozens
Music supporter, teacher, active community member
William Alexander Craig (BM ’72, MM ’75)
Music supporter and composer, CU Boulder staff accompanist, U.S. Army Band member (baritone saxophone), avid hiker, photographer, cook
Fred T. Davine
Music supporter, consummate businessman, Governor's Holocaust Remembrance Program co-chair, active community member, vintage car aficionado
Leonard Lee Diggs (BME ’62, MME ’63)
Music supporter, music teacher, saxophonist and ensemble conductor/performer, recipient of Leonard Diggs Day for the State of Colorado proclaimed by Gov. Richard D. Lamm, traveler, pilot, Renaissance man
Thomas R. Duncan
Music supporter, journalism/communications/marketing/advertising teacher and professor, lecturer, author, active community member
Charles G. Eakin
Music supporter, CU Boulder music professor emeritus, internationally esteemed multimedia composer, U.S. Army double bassist
Roger Jeremy Easton
Music supporter, CU Boulder architecture professor, award-winning architect, active community member
David Robert Evans
Music supporter, music teacher and therapist, community musical theater director, composer, U.S. Navy Band member (trumpet), pilot, bicyclist, outdoorsman, active community member
Anna M. Everett (BME ’46)
Pianist, organist, music educator, traveler, philanthropist, active community member, philanthropist
Sharon L. Finegan
Music supporter
Jerolyn Kater Frame (BME ’58)
Music supporter, music teacher, pianist/accompanist, choir director, restaurateur, property manager, active community member
Carol M. Fredrickson
Music supporter, music aficionado, traveler, homemaker extraordinaire, traveler, active community member
Bennie J. Gahart (BM ’58)
Pianist/accompanist, organist, music teacher, choir director
Thomas Reed Gaines
Music supporter
Joyce L. Gaylord
Music supporter, music aficionado, University of Colorado Medical Center staff member, avid hiker, dancer
Janet M. Gilland
Music supporter, librarian, genealogist, active community member
Ronald Leroy Gough (BME ’59)
Music supporter, big band music lover, master builder, kite flyer, traveler
Robert Stuart Graham
Music and visual arts supporter, benefactor of the Robert S. Graham Fund for Opera endowment and the Robert Staurt Graham Scholarship Fund, University of Colorado Business Services director, continuing education proponent, avid skier
Viola Emma Haertling (BME ’54, MM ’93)
Music supporter, piano teacher/accompanist, Charles and Viola Haertling Piano Scholarship benefactor, piano teacher/accompanist, art and architecture aficionado
Elaine R. Hansen
Music supporter, CU Boulder Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and director of the Colorado Space Grant Consortium, co-owner of Blue Cloud Farms
Martha Green Harbison (BM ’57)
Music supporter, pianist, organist, vocalist, choir director, Boettcher Scholarship recipient, Music Academy director
Daniel Arthur Harris
Music supporter, fellowship recipient and award-winning university professor, poet and poetry teacher, environmentalist
Charlotte Hartley
Music supporter, political/social justice activist, advocate for women, minorities and equitable healthcare
Joseph Warren Haygood (MME ’68)
Music supporter
Billie Harold Heil (MME ’58)
Band director, saxophone player and multi-instrumentalist, active participant in the American School Band Directors Association, Joey James Orchestra, Skyliners, Freeburg Big Jazz Band, RSVP Orchestra and Italian Band of Saint Louis
Miriam B. Hendrickson
Music supporter, Miss Frontier Days, licensed professional counselor emphasizing family therapy, active community member focused on mental health
Newell C. Hoskin (BME ’61)
Band teacher, band member, tuba player, businessman, outdoorsman, Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla Commander, Grand Junction Safety Council
L. Carolyn Houts (MME ’67)
Music supporter, music teacher and passionate educator, organist, music missionary in Ghana, polyglot, active community member, Northwest Missouri State Bearcat Fan
Zanobia Criswell Irwin
Music supporter, longtime teacher
Nancy Winters Jordan
Music supporter, education enthusiast, tutor, proofreader, active community member
W. June Kane
Music supporter, pianist
William K. Kearns
Musicology professor emeritus and longtime music supporter, College of Music associate dean for graduate studies, first director of the American Music Research Center, U.S. Army band member, composer, avid hiker, nature lover
William O. Kellogg
Music supporter, educator, author, traveler, active community member
Mary Helen F. Klare (MME ’69)
Music supporter, orchestra member and teacher, American String Teachers Association lifetime achievement award winner, writer, poet
Janet Meneley Korr
Music supporter, avid learner and traveler, nature and animal lover
Evelyn Marie Krohn
Music supporter, medical technologist, administrative assistant at CU Boulder’s Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Robert J. Stearns Award recipient, active community member
Burc Lander (BME ’57)
Music supporter
C. Nicholas Lee
Music supporter, choral singer, polyglot and CU Boulder Slavic languages professor, recipient of Adenauer and Fulbright fellowships, active community member
Patrick M. Liebergen (DMA ’80)
Music supporter, choral editor, arranger and award-winning composer, director of choral activities at University of Wisconsin-Stout, traveler, outdoorsman, photographer
Robert Lisensky
Music supporter, professor and university administrator, pastor and ordained elder in the Methodist Church, active community member
John W. Low
Music supporter, lawyer, community leader, U.S. Army Air Corps member (Distinguished Flying Cross)
Mary Agnes Madden
Music supporter, teacher, administrator, CU Boulder director of student retention services, community builder, traveler, watercolorist
Patricia K. Magette
Music supporter, recipient of CU Boulder’s Robert L. Stearns Award, active community member, traveler, knitter, dog lover
Robert Leo Martin, Jr. (MM ’84)
Music supporter, high school principal, high school music director and band director, music arranger, car collector, avid skier, whitewater rafting aficionado
Lea Elisabeth Mattson (BM ’18)
Sister Nancy Meade (MME ’72)
Sister of St. Joseph, teacher
Barbara Meier
Music supporter, textile artist, watercolorist, traveler, hiker, skier, sailing aficionado
Betty D. Meyring
Music supporter, poet, teacher – speech, composition, creative writing, English and British literature
Dottie T. Mitchell
Music supporter, teacher, traveler, active community member
Beth Maxwell Moise
Music supporter, pioneering Fortune 500 global executive, consultant, active community member
George Charles Mulacek
Music supporter, Mulacek Piano Scholarship benefactor
Ruth Murphy-Morley
Music supporter, vocalist, career educator, business teacher, active community member
Martha Mae Newell
Music supporter, Jungian analyst, YWCA careerist, supporter of displaced persons in post-World War II Germany, traveler
Shirley K. Newell
Music supporter, piano player, homemaker
Kaye Irene Nock (BM ’55)
Music supporter, music lover, competitive waterskiing aficionado
Alice-Ann Oliver (BME ’60)
Music supporter, Dallas Cowboys fan, skier, scuba diver, active community member
Willis R. Olson (MME ’47)
Award-winning music professor, singer, woodwind specialist, U.S. Army 20th Armored Division, traveler, active community member
Hedy A. Page
Music supporter, German-born political refugee turned social worker, education enthusiast, community activist, outdoorswoman
Frank Y. Parce (MME ’65)
Music supporter, College of Music Parce Office benefactor, singer, educator, cyclist, philanthropist, active community member
David R. Parker
Music supporter, lawyer and general counsel, trucking executive, U.S. Marine Corps captain, active community member
Bernadetta B. Pfeiffenberger
Music supporter, teacher, traveler, active community member
David A. Pituch (MM '76)
Saxophonist, educator, author
Nancy Polumbus
Music supporter, active community member
Joseph M. Rezits
Music supporter, music professor, pianist, international lecturer and performer
Gloria Seitz Rhodes (BME ’45)
Music supporter, piano teacher, stewardess, internationalist, tennis aficionado
Kathy Ann Rinehart (MM ’84)
Donald W. Ringsby
Longtime music supporter
David Robertson
Music supporter, geologist, computer programmer, award-winning mountaineer, conservationist, trekker, traveler
Gene Rock
Music supporter, Bank of Denver careerist, traveler, skier, golfer, Napoleonic war dioramas hobbyist
John H. Schultz
Music supporter, lawyer, public speaker, artist, sports aficionado, education philanthropist
Virginia Green Short (BM ’55)
Music supporter
Carl S. Smeltzer, Jr.
Music supporter, real estate broker, passionate CU Buffs fan, avid tennis player
Lowry Smith, Jr.
Music supporter, business executive, nature and health enthusiast, sportsman, active community member
David Samuel Snyder
Music supporter, information systems careerist, active community member, golf aficionado
Chet Sommers
Music supporter, lifelong music careerist, active community member, avid fisherman, outdoorsman, conservationist, U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve member
Constance K. Starr
Music supporter, music educator, accomplished pianist and violist, Suzuki piano method advocate, music textbook author and lecturer, wife of retired CU Boulder violin faculty and renowned Suzuki pedagogue William Starr
Yolanda F. Stenson
Music supporter, sports aficionado (including the CU Buffs), active community member, legendary cake decorator, doll collector
Douglas C. Taylor
Music supporter, proficient pianist, lover of music and learning, scholar of the quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam, renowned researcher of under-appreciated composers, Renaissance man, active community member
Muriel A. Thompson
Music supporter, alto clarinetist, lifelong learner, public health chief, tireless community leader, U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve member
Ruth Toltz
Music supporter, passionate devotee of Judaism and the Jewish community, award recipient for exemplary community leadership
Kathleen E. Turner
Music supporter
William A. Weber
Distinguished professor emeritus and longtime music supporter, University of Colorado Museum Herbarium curator, renowned botanist and lichenologist
Gay Lyn Weir (BME ’58)
Music supporter, accomplished clarinetist and pianist, teacher, conductor, composer, performer
David Gregory Wolach
Music supporter, education and nursing supporter, active community member, CU Buffs and Denver Broncos fan, avid golfer, traveler
Martha M. Woodford
Music supporter, elementary school teacher, high school guidance counselor, lifelong learner, sports aficionado, traveler, birder