Rodney S. Miller Distinguished Service Award


MR. FEREE LEFEVRE

Ferree LeFevre was awarded the Distinguished Service Award at the 2003 District Chorus Festival by Tim Gottwald, President of District 7.

Mr. LeFevre holds the Bachelor of Science in Music Education and the Master of Education in Music degrees from West Chester University. He studied with Dr. Arthur Jones for his Master’s degree in Choral Conducting and also studied organ with Dr. Jones and Dr. George Volkel at the Chautauqua Institution in New York. He has done additional study at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, and the Saratoga-Potsdam Choral Institute. Mr. LeFevre retired in 1998 after 42 years with the Chambersburg Area School District where he was Chairman of the Music Department and Director of Vocal Music at Chambersburg Area Senior High School for 29 years.

Mr. LeFevre served as the District 7 Choral Tryout Chairman for 27 years, retiring from this duty in 2002. He received the District 7 Citation of Excellence in 1987 and is a Nationally Registered and Nationally Certified Music Educator with MENC. Ferree is a member of West Chester University’s School of Music Advisory Board, is Dean of the Chambersburg Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and is a member of the Cumberland Valley Theatre Organ Society. In addition, he has served as Director of Music at Mann Memorial Methodist Church, Augusta, Georgia, Central Presbyterian Church, Chambersburg, and is currently in his 20th year as Director of Music for St. John’s United Church of Christ in Chambersburg.

He is a member and past President of the Chambersburg Noontime Lions Club, past President and 40 year member of the Board of the Chambersburg Community Concert Association, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, Music Educators National Conference, American Choral Directors Association, The Organ Historical Society, Harrisburg Consistory and Zembo Shrine, and has completed a six year term on the Board of Directors for the Chambersburg Council for the Arts.

Ferree resides in Chambersburg with his wife, Mary-Jane Giering LeFevre.

 

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