Rodney S. Miller Distinguished Service Award

DR. WILLIAM R. HIGGINS

Dr. William Higgins

Dr. Higgins was awarded the District 7 Distinguished Service Award in 2008.

Dr. Higgins spent 40 years teaching music in District 7 of PMEA, (4 years as Director of Bands and Music Department Chair at Big Spring Junior/Senior High School and 36 years as Professor of Music and Computer Education at Messiah College).

• He is a past president of the Cumberland County Music Educators Association.
• He established the first Technology in Music Education Clinics at the PMEA Annual Conferences.
• He served for several years on the PMEA conference planning committee for Technology Applications in Music Education.
• He has presented clinics at MENC conferences in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, Tennessee, and Florida.
• He has presented numerous Technology clinics and workshops for District 7 inservice programs.
• He taught Technology Applications in Music Education at The University of Miami, Kent State University, Penn State, and Messiah College.
• Since 1983, he has written over 120 articles and software reviews for the Pennsylvania Music Educators News and continues in that capacity today
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