HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
| Texas Music Administrators Conference History In the early 70's a small group of music supervisors from the Dallas-Ft Worth metroplex met together periodically to share ideas and help each other with mutual related music concerns. This group began to expand and so we moved our meetings to Crystal’s Pizza restaurant in Irving and found our meetings becoming more beneficial to each other. The meetings remained informal with no set agenda and no officers; the only constant was that I arranged the site and sent a reminder letter each month to the group. We all looked forward to our monthly meeting and always left the meetings with new ideas and a refreshed sense of purpose in our work. As the group enlarged in our area and across the state, we felt it would be beneficial to have music administration opportunities specifically targeting our work-related concerns at the TMEA conventions and summer meetings. The first TMAC officers were elected in February, 1983 at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio. The following people were elected as the charter officers of the TMAC organization: President R.J. (Dick) Winters, Music Coordinator for the Plano Independent School District; Vice President Woody Schober, Director of Music, Irving ISD; and Secretary-Treasurer Ken Howard, Music Supervisor, Waco ISD. Following the election of officers, meetings and workshops were scheduled at TMEA and at the summer conventions. These meetings addressed various topics including budget, curriculum, personnel, public relations, planning and organization, etc. As a music educator who spent 30 years in music administration, I was grateful for the help and assistance I received as a member of TMAC and applaud those now who are continuing to provide this worthwhile organization for the continued advancement of music education in our state. Contributed by: Woody Schober Retired Director of Fine Arts Irving ISD, Irving, Texas Past Presidents of TMAC This list is as complete as current members can recall. Please notify TMAC officers if there are additions or corrections/ 1987-88 Paul Mann 1988-89 Bob Lewis 1989-90 Pete Cisneros 1990-92 Jan Schronk 1992-94 Woody Shober 1994-96 Craig Welle 1996-Nov, 97 Mollie Tower (She left her term early to join textbook publisher) Nov,97-2000 Larry Tucker (He completed Mollie’s term and then 2 years of his own) 2000-02 Camille Bach (Camille spearheaded the first job fair. She continued to head it up until she left Texas in 2007) 2002-03 Danna Rothlisberger (Danna had the first scripted agenda for the fall conference. It had been a roundtable format prior to that) (Beginning of 1 year terms) 2003-04 Cody Myers (Charged committee led by George W. Jones to present mission statement at TMEA mtg. Created and charged “Vision Committee”, led by Randy Bartlett. Charged Sam Harris with development of a web site.) 2004-05 John Kline (oversaw partnership with TMEA in study re; student and program evaluation….and standards) 2005-06 Mitzi Jones 2006-07 Randy Bartlett 2007-08 Dan White 2008-09 Jim McDaniel 2009-10 Robert Rumph 2010-11 George Jones |
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