AWARDS PROGRAM

 

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

2009 IMEA Awards Program

The Illinois Music Educators Association is currently seeking nominations for the following awards:

  • Presidential Award
  • "Mary Hoffman" Award of Excellence
  • Distinguished Service Award
  • Outstanding Administrator Award
  • Honorary Life Membership Award
  • 25 Year Recognition Awards
  • Collegiate Chapter Recognition Award

Once all nominations and the necessary supporting material have been received, a decision will be made by the Awards Committee and the IMEA Board of Directors. The selected recipients will then be notified, in writing, and invited to receive the Award during the General Session of our 2010 All-State Conference.

The IMEA Awards Program supports our efforts to recognize outstanding achievements of peers, those preparing to be music educators, as well as those outside the music education profession. We strive to honor our most distinguished colleagues and increase the visibility of our most supportive benefactors.

Awards descriptions and nomination/application forms are available in the Illinois Music Educator Journal and as "pdf" files below.  Please take a moment to review each Award carefully. If you would like to make a nomination, please follow the directions given, and mail your completed nomination form and ALL supporting materials to:

Roseanne Rosenthal
VanderCook College of Music
3140 S Federal Street

Chicago, IL  60616

(312) 225-6288 X232

FAX: (312) 225-5211

rrosenthal@vandercook.edu


DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS: Third Friday in October Annually (October 16, 2009)

Only MENC/IMEA members are eligible to submit nominations. Nominations received without the required supporting information may not be considered. Nominations must be submitted by current IMEA/MENC members. These nominations will be considered for 2010 All-State presentation ONLY.

 

PAST IMEA AWARD RECIPIENTS

AWARD OF DISTINCTION

1995 - Merle J. Issac, Des Plaines
1998 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Sir Georg Solti, Conductor
2002 - USAF Band, Bolling AFB, Col. Lowell E. Graham, Conductor
2004 - Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director

PRESIDENTIAL AWARD

1982
Mark Hindsley
1995
Will Schmid
1986
Richard Hoffland
1996
Tom Wisniewski
1988
John Paynter
1998
Paul Lehman
1991
Richard Colwell
1999
Harry Begian
1992
Weston Noble
2000
Eunice Boardman
1993
Tim Lautzenheiser
2003
Charles Leonhard
1994
Bennett Reimer
2010

Randolph F. Kummer

      John J. Mahlmann

DISTINGUISHED MUSIC EDUCATOR AWARD

1974

W. H. Beckmeyer

1975

Ruth H. Burlison

Sten Halfvatson   Esther Duncan
  Franklin Kreider   Oren Gould
  Arthur Sweet   C. B. "Chic" Nesler
1977
Marjorie Reeves   Leo J. Silva
  Thomas Richardson   Berbard Stiner
      Bruce Houseknecht

 

MARY HOFFMAN EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD

1999
Joy Lynn Beebe
2005
Bill Hudson
Greg Bimm
Ross Kellan
Richard Curlee
Paula Deutsch Mueller
Joseph Grant
2006
David Danckwart
2000
Richard Griffiths
Brenda Kimble
Joseph Malmquist
Jane Wilkins Scott
2001
Judy Lynn Moe
2007
Cliff Kaminsky
2002
Jane Hindsley
Sherrie Welles
Diane Hires
Joy Wirth
Karen Mazza
2008
Mark Bettcher
2003
Gary Smith
Carol Broos
Duane Tutaj
James Stegall
Susan Young
2009
Ross Heise
2004
Charles Staley, Jr.   Joanne May
      Brenda Muench

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

1979
Clifton Burmeister
1993
Dean Sayles
Cloyd Meyers
1994
Charles Engel
Traugott Rohner
Eddrie Kinnison
1980
Winifred Cantrell
1995
William E. Schnell
Robert Climer
1996
Mary Boller
Ray Makeever
John Fitchuk
1981
Robert Dvorak
Wayne Macomber
Boyd White
1998
James Kidder
1982
Tal Smith
1999
Paul Bauer
1983
Frank Laurie
2001
Judy Dawson
Walter Rodby
Sam Reese
1984
Mary Hoffman
David Williams
Dale Kimpton
2002
Ronald Engstrom
Charles Leonard
Antonio Garcia
1985
Eunice Dansby
James Rimington
John Kinnison
Peter Webster
George Wilson
2003
Donald Davis
1986
Charles Beckman
Margaret Kelly
Melvin Pontius
Randolph F. Kummer
1987
Gordon Bird   Deborah Sheldon
Daniel Perrino
2005
Milto Scott
1988
Robert Allen
2006
Kris Cox
Theodore Paschedag
2007
Daiel Dietrich
1989
Robert Baile
2008
William Jastrow
1991
Ernest O. Caneva
2009
Joe Grant
Arthur  L. Schmittler
Judith Grimes
Paul Rosene
2010
Richard Curlee
1992
Paul Beringer
Linda Kummer
  Robert Guensler    

HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP AWARD

1988
Lynne Bonnell
1993
Michael Greene
Sally Sawyer
Karl Bruhn
1991
Clay Marks
Mary E. Gay
1992
Lowell Samuel
1996
John Walters
 
1997
Paul Simon
 
2004
Robert Morrison

OUTSTANDING ADMINISTRATOR AWARD

1992
Robert Meixner
2002
Frederick Wildermuth
1993
David Stauffacher
2003
David Kroeze
1994
Robert Cooper
2005
James A. Miller
1996
Tom Gibbs
2006
Michael Gardner
1997
James F. Asher
2007
James Drengwitz
1998
Donald Wold
William Leensvaart
1999
Michael J. Mugge
2008
Monica Schmitt
Charles Snook

James Shellard

2000
David Barnwell
2009
Jill Bullo
2001
William Freeman
David Hixenbaugh

COLLEGIATE CHAPTER RECOGNITION AWARD

2006 - Augustana College, Rock Island

ILLINOIS OUTSTANDING TOTAL MUSIC PROGRAM AWARD
1992 - New Trier High School, Winnetka
1993 - Downers Grove North and South High Schools

If you would like more information about the Awards Program, please contact:

Roseanne Rosenthal
VanderCook College of Music
3140 S Federal Street

Chicago, IL  60616

(312) 225-6288 X232

FAX: (312) 225-5211

rrosenthal@vandercook.edu

 
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