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DSU Music Alumni Updates

We always enjoy hearing about what our alumni are doing, so please e-mail a sentence or two about your current activities if you would like. It will be added to the Alumni News section in the next newsletter and on our website. We highly value DSU Music Alumni. Please let us know if there’s anything we can do for you!

2007

• Eileen Carey Jennings '07 is pursuing a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. Eileen recently distinguished herself by winning the MS/West TN District of the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions. She advanced to the Mid-South Regional auditions in Memphis, TN where she was awarded an encouragement award and named a regional semi-finalist.  

2006

• Clint Boleware '06 - I accepted the Head Band Director position at North Pike High School in Summit, MS. I never thought that this day would come, but it did. The band has about 55 members. It has lots of new equipment and administrative support. The assistant director is a well known band vet in MS, and I'm sure he will help me along the way. I had a great student teaching experience and learned so much from those guys at Warren-Central.
• Matt Walker '06 is the Band Director at EnterpriseHigh School in Enterprise, MS near Meridian. Enterprise is a 2A school that has had a band program for only 4 years. He is responsible for the High School Marching Band and Concert Band, the 6th Grade Band, and the 7th Grade Band. He also teaches a General Music class at the High School. This year (2007) marks the first time that Enterprise Marching Band qualified for the State Marching Championship.

2005

• Jimmy Clark '05 - In June, we moved to Horn Lake, Mississippi. Laura, a DSU alumna ('04) and Drum Major (2003-04), is teaching 8th grade algebra and pre-algebra, and I am director of bands at Lake Cormorant Middle School, a brand new middle school in DeSoto County.
• Katie (Renacker) Foxworthy '05 - Currently, I am living in Tupelo, Mississippi with my husband Paul Foxworthy. I am working at Tupelo Middle School as one of the choral music teachers. I teach 7th and 8th graders choral music, and I have one general music class.
• Lynn Holliman '05 - I'm working on my third year at the Music Director at Riverside Schools in Avon, MS.  I currently teach the Riverside High School Chorus and 1st - 6th Elementary Music. I am also the head director for the annual Junior/Senior Musical.  The administration and I are going to be creating a brand new Junior High Chorus for the 2008-2009 school year which should be interesting.  Since I have been at Riverside we have consistantly had students be a part of the DSU Honor Choir.  We are making plans to begin going to competitions this next year. 

2004

• Brandon Hardin '04 - This year I was offered the opportunity to serve as Director of Bands Amory, Mississippi. My wife Kristy, also a DSU alumna '03 and a former member of the drumline, just took a position with the North Mississippi Medical Center as a Speech-Language Pathologist. We are both very excited about what is in our future.
• Stephanie Holmes '04 - I just graduated from The University of Mississippi with a Master of Music degree in music education. While at Ole Miss, I was a member of the Concert Singers and the Women's Glee, and I participated in the research poster session at the 2006 MMEA/ACDA convention. I also served as a judge at Hymn Festival and pre-collegiate MMTA auditions. This fall, I started teaching piano at Kosciusko High School in Kosciusko, MS.

2003

• Kenneth Pind '03 - For one year, I have been on the staff of Southern Illinois Worship Center in Herrin, IL as Minister of Music. I will complete a Masters Degree at Trinity Theological Seminary in Newburgh IL. There I will earn a Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry with concentration in Pulpit Communication and Expository Preaching.
• Laura (McCormick) Weirich '03 is currently living in Tucson where she is a youth minister at St. Odilia Catholic Community. She directs the Junior High Youth Group, High School Youth Group, and the Confirmation Class. She was married July 7, 2007 to John Weirich of Washington, Missouri.

2000

• Jeff Triplett '00 is currently teaching in the Music Department at NorthwestMississippiCommunity College in Senatobia, MS. He resides in Coldwater, MS with his wife Laura, and three children, Madison (7), Aubrey (6) and Elisabeth (5).

1990s

• David Redden '92 - I have earned my doctorate in Crisis Counseling, and my third son was born August 17, 2006.
• Doug Scarborough (BME - '92, MME - '95) completed his DA in Music Theory and Composition from the University of Northern Colorado. After ten years of recording and performing original music, he left Denver for a one-year position teaching low brass and jazz studies at WhitmanCollege in Walla Walla, WA. Currently, he teaches theory and composition at Washington and LeeUniversity in Virginia.

1980s

1970s

• Walter (Danny) Robinson '70 retired in August of 2007 after 31+ years with social security administration and is still involved in church music, handbells and two community bands.

1960s and earlier