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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, ���������� 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, ���������� 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, ���������� 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, ���������� Boulder music professor emeritus, internationally esteemed multimedia composer, U.S. Army double bassist

Roger Jeremy Easton        
Music supporter, ���������� 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, ���������� 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 ���������� 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 ���������� 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, ���������� Boulder director of student retention services, community builder, traveler, watercolorist

Patricia K. Magette 
Music supporter, recipient of ���������� 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 ���������� 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 ���������� Boulder violin faculty and renowned Suzuki pedagogue William Starr

Yolanda F. Stenson
Music supporter, sports aficionado (including the ���������� 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, ���������� 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