Meet the Candidates for AMEA President...
Sara Womack is the music specialist at Greystone Elemen- tary School in Hoover and has taught music in Mountain Brook, Jefferson County, and Talladega. She gradu- ated magna cum laude from the Uni- versity of Alabama at Birmingham, where she also received her master’s degree. She will graduate from the University of Georgia
in May 2008 with her doctorate in music education. In 2007, Sara was certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards in the area of music in early and middle childhood. She completed Level I Orff-Schulwerk Teacher Training at the Eastman School of Music and Level II Training at the Univer- sity of Memphis. Sara serves as President of the Ele- mentary/General Music Division of AMEA and Secretary of the Alabama Chapter of the American- Orff Schulwerk Association. As President of the Ele- mentary/General Division, she instituted the annual Elementary Music Festival and led an overhaul of the Division’s bylaws. She is a member of MENC: The National Association for Music Education, the Amer- ican Orff-Schulwerk Association, and the College Music Society. Sara has presented sessions and re- search for the College Music Society, Georgia Music Educators Association, American Orff-Schulwerk As- sociation, and American Educational Research Asso- ciation and has works published in The Orff Echo and Music Education Research. She has received grants from the Hoover City Schools Foundation, American Orff-Schulwerk
Association, Jefferson County
Schools Foundation, and Pi Lambda Theta. Sara en- joys relaxing with her family at the lake and reading crime novels. She and her husband, Sean, co-founder of DoubleStop Percussion, an educational percussion company, have one son, Will, who is almost four-years old.
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Steve McLendon is director of bands at Dothan High School in Dothan, Alabama, where he directs the marching band, jazz band, and three con- cert bands. He has been a band director for the last 31 years, is a past president of the Alabama Bandmas- ters Association and a former chair of dis- tricts three and eight. In 2006, he received
the AMEA Barbara Odom Distinguished Service Award. In 2004, the Dothan High School Band was honored to perform at the AMEA In-Service Confer- ence in Auburn, Alabama. McLendon has served on numerous committees for the ABA and AMEA. He received his bachelor of music education degree from Troy State University and his master of education de- gree from The University of North Alabama. McLen- don has been the band director at Dothan High School for 20 years and the Minister of Music at Cloverdale United Methodist for 19 years. Prior to moving to Dothan, he taught at Fairview High School in Fairview, Alabama for 11 years. He is a member of the Phi Beta Mu Bandmasters Fraternity, MENC, AMEA, ABA, IAJE, AEA, and NEA. He has served as an adjudicator in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida.
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