Greater Grand Forks
Meetings
Music Professionals: you are all invited: we meet the third Tuesday of each month!
9:00-9:30 Social/Coffee
9:30-10:30 Programs
10:30-11:00 Business Meeting
Tuesday, September 20, 2005: Professor Beth Gigante Klingenstein: Studio Wellness or "Get Well Soon"
Tuesday, October 18, 2005: Robin Rivelan: Teaching Young Children
Tuesday, November 15, 2005: Matt Strand: Conversation
Tuesday, January 17, 2006: GGFMTA Membership: Mozart's 250th
Tuesday, February 16, 2006: Professor Katherine Norman: Compositions by Women 1901-1929 from Etude Magazine
Tuesday, March 21, 2006: Philip Cunningham: Liszt as Pedagogue
Tuesday, April 18, 2006: Daniel Pederson: Composing and Publishing
Tuesday, May 16, 2006: Lunch and Installation of 2006-2007 Officers
Special Events
October and May Recitals: 4000 Valley Square Nursing Home
Saturday, February 11, 2006: Student and Membership Recital with the Northern Valley Chapter of the American Guild of Organists; Calvary Lutheran Church, Grand Forks, ND
Location:
United Lutheran Church
324 Chestnut Street
Grand Forks, North Dakota
Officers
Linda Hanson-Bell, President, lrae@polarcomm.com
Lisa B. Anderson, Vice President, christopher_anderson2@und.nodak.edu
Sara Bloom, Secretary, wallace_bloom@und.nodak.edu
Kathryn Greene, Treasurer/Membership, jgreene@gra.midco.net
History
On November 23, 1965, a group of piano teachers in the Greater Grand Forks area elected officers and adopted a constitution under the name of Greater Grand Forks Piano Teachers Association. The group met once a month to enrich the professional and personal lives of its members. The group met the fourth Tuesday of each month except December, usually at the Golden Hour Restaurant or the Northwest Piano Studio. Officers were:
| Lon Tupa, Larimore | President |
| Mrs. Robert Simmons | Vice President |
| Sister St. Anloysiousm, St. James Convent | Secretary |
| Mrs. Viola Sorense, East Grand Forks | Treasurer |
Charter members of the original group were Eleanor Johnson, Mrs. Robert Simmons, Sister St. Aloysius, Mrs. Viola Sorenson, Mrs. W.J. Horner, Ernest Larson, Sister Elizabeth, Mrs. Byrd Bidgood, Miss Laurie Donarski, Mrs. Edith Kaufmann, Mrs. John McLaughlin, Mrs. C.E. Olson , Sister St. Augustine, and from Larimore: Lon Tupa, Mrs. Gertrude Yahna, Mrs. Delos Wesbrook and Mrs. Donald West.
The group met once a month to enrich the professional and personal lives of piano teachers and those interested in furthering this vocation. The original members were not required to join NDMTA or MTNA, although many did.
15 years later, in July 1980, the group received an official charter from MTNA. A charter from NDMTA was received in September, 1980 and the name was changed to Greater Grand Forks Music Teachers Association.
Past Presidents
| 1965-66 | Lon Tupa |
| 1966-67 | Mrs. Robert Simmons |
| 1967-68 | Elaine McLaughlin |
| 1968-71 | Ernest Larson |
| 1971-72 | Camilla Dunkel |
| 1972-75 | Eleanor Johnson |
| 1975-77 | Dolores Loberg |
| 1977-79 | Barbara Hallgrimson |
| 1979-80 | Suzanne Rue |
| 1980-81 | Phyllis Baukol |
| 1981-82 | Martha Hayes |
| 1982-84 | JoAnn Gratz |
| 1984-86 | Mary Jane Halverson |
| 1986-88 | Sue Kerr |
| 1988-90 | Janie Green |
| 1990-92 | Gloria Bethke |
| 1992-94 | Karen Dalager |
| 1994-96 | Sharon Westbrook |
| 1996-98 | Sara Bloom |
| 1998-99 | Mary Stoltman |
| 1999-00 | Charlene Berg |
| 2000-01 | Charlene Berg & Jane Halverson |
| 2001-03 | Kathryn Green |
| 2003-05 | Lisa Anderson |
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