Ethan Lolley - President, Collegiate AMEA Fellow Collegiate NAfME members,


Greetings from North Alabama! As this spring semester is coming to a close, I wish you all the best as you prepare for finals, spring concerts, and of course, juries (I hope that’s what you all call them as well. If not, then I mean your private lesson performance exams!). We here at UNA are preparing for our annual honor band on April 25-27 and look to be hosting over 600 students to our campus! I remember the days back in high school when a person was respected according to the number of medals on their uniform. Those were great times of friendly competition that always kept us on our toes and constantly in our practice rooms! As a young instrumentalist, nothing was more exciting then visiting a college campus, meeting college musicians, and feeling welcomed. I encourage you all as your university may also host honor bands or honor choirs to welcome these aspiring musicians and encourage them to continue music in higher education.


What a month March has been! March, being Music In Our Schools Month, is NAfME’s own official month when music education becomes the focus of schools across the nation. I hope you all were able to participate in some capacity by being advocates for music education. This year’s theme was “Music Education: Orchestrating Success.” For our chapter


1946 Yale H. Ellis 1948 Walter A. Mason 1950 Vernon Skoog 1952 John J. Hoover 1954 Lamar Triplett 1956 Carleton K. Butler 1958 Mort Glosser 1960 Wilbur Hinton 1962 Lacey Powell, Jr. 1964 G. Truman Welch 1966 Jerry Countryman 1968 Floyd C. McClure


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here at UNA, we decided to volunteer at the local elementary schools in Florence and present fun music lessons to the students. We were able to get their feedback by asking the students to decorate note cards that described what music meant to them. We then sent these to the local senators so they can see the importance of music to these students and press for continued support of music in all schools. I have a challenge to all my fellow future music educators. Let’s make every month Music In Our Schools Month by doing what we can to promote advocacy for music programs everywhere. Funding for music programs continues to lessen, but we can make a difference, even as collegiate members. Remember, these are our jobs we are fighting for! If your chapter was able to participate, I would love to hear about it! Contact me through email anytime. Through communication we gain ideas from each other and become better chapters because of it.


On another note (no pun intended), it seems like my presidency has just begun. I have not yet had the privilege of thanking the members in attendance at the AMEA conference for having enough confidence in me to vote me as your


NAfME Collegiate President. I thoroughly enjoy serving in any leadership capacity, especially one involving music education!


AMEA Presidents - Past to Present


1970 Jerry Bobo 1972 Frances P. Moss 1974 George Hammett 1975 Frances P. Moss 1976 S. J. Allen 1978 W. Frank McArthur, Jr. 1980 Paul Hall 1982 Lacey Powell, Jr. 1984 Johnny Jacobs 1986 Merilyn Jones 1988 Ronald D. Hooten 1990 Ken Williams


1992 Dianne Johnson 1994 James K. Simpson 1996 Johnnie Vinson 1998 Michael Meeks 2000 John McAphee, Jr. 2002 Tony Pike 2004 Becky Rodgers 2006 John Baker 2008 Pat Stegall 2010 Steve McLendon 2012 Sara Womack


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I hope to finalize the plan for the Collegiate Summit by the end of summer to give everyone ample time to make plans to attend. If your university is


centrally located in the state and interested in hosting this event this fall, please contact me. This would be a great opportunity for your chapter to get involved at a higher level. Also, the planning for next year’s


conference is already in the works. I look forward to my meeting with the rest of the AMEA board in June. If you have any ideas for workshops that Collegiate NAfME can sponsor, I would love to help make that idea happen. I want this conference to be a tremendous success as I’m sure you do as well. I hope to meet some of you soon with a possible visit to your campus and meeting with your chapter. Until then, keep making music!


Ethan Lolley


Alabama NAfME: Collegiate President University of North Alabama ellolley@una.edu 205-269-9426


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