Mrs. Carol J. Myers
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Rodney
S. Miller Distinguished Service Award
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Carol Myers was awarded the District 7 Distinguished Service Award in January 2003.
Carol received her BS in Music Education and Master in Music Education degrees from West Chester University, with advanced study at several universities and colleges in the United States and abroad. She began her teaching career in 1953 as a classroom, choral and instrumental music teacher in Roaring Creek Valley District, continuing in Wiconnisco, Lykens, Williamston, Upper Dauphin, and Williams Valley school districts. Carol was a member of Millersville University’s music faculty from 1974 until her retirement in 1994. During her tenure at Millersville, she was a supervisor of student teaching, director of the women’s choir and handbell ensemble, taught elementary and secondary method courses, and was a vocal instructor. Carol also served as assistant music department chair and was named Associate Professor Emeritus.
Carol served as PMEA State President and MENC Eastern Division President. She is listed in “Who’s Who in American Education”, is a recipient of the PMEA James R. Stewart Distinguished Service Award, PMEA District 7 and District 10 Distinguished Service Awards, MENC Award of Achievement, and the MENC Eastern Division Award for Outstanding Service and Contributions to Music Education.
She has been a keynote speaker at MENC division and PMEA state conferences and the Pennsylvania Collegiate Music Educators Association conference. Carol served as Pennsylvania’s representative to the advisory council of the National Commission on Instruction of Music in Education, was coordinator of “Music In Our Schools Month” and initiated “Classroom Music in the Rotunda”. She also served as a PMEA Curriculum and Instruction coordinator, membership chair, and chaired the Executive Director search committee in 1955.
Carol was the choral director
for the American Music Abroad Tour to Europe for 16 years, a 40-year director
of Lykens United Methodist
Church’s
five vocal choirs and three handbell choirs, and was guest conductor for numerous
MENC Eastern-Division and PMEA regional, district, county, and church choral
festivals. She has also served as an adjudicator for Musicfest Orlando, Music
in the Parks, Fine Arts Festivals, Pennsylvania Governor’s School for
the Arts, and evaluator/review specialist for school districts, colleges, and
universities in Pennsylvania and throughout the east coast. For over 30 years,
Carol presented workshops and sessions on learning stations and centers, open
classroom, and youth choirs at in-service programs and district and state conferences
and meetings.
Click here to read the Distinguished Service Award eligibility guidelines.
