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he Oakwood University Church dramatically narrated by OU alumnus what inspired such a soul-stirring sanctuary was packed to Timothy Allston and was written by composition with family members, capacity on Sabbath, April 18, OU music department adjunct friends, and guests who had traveled Twhen President Delbert Baker professor and piano accompanist to OU’s campus that Sabbath to hear delivered an inspiring Spring Message Adriana Perera as part of her Master’s the first official public performance of entitled, “Simon of Cyrene – the composition. It was Crossing Point.” The sermon inspired, she said, by a private focused on how life events that moment spent with family one seem at the time to be evening at the foot of the interruptions or disruptions to Monument to Service, an 8-foot our daily routines can become bronze statue in the center the signal incident that saves Oakwood’s Centennial Square our very lives. that depicts Simon of Cyrene It offered a close-up of the assisting Jesus with the cross. encounter that Simon of Cyrene, The statue, which was sculpted a black man from North Africa, by Alan Collins and dedicated had with Jesus when he was in the fall of 2006, evoked such called on to assist the Savior deep feelings of appreciation for with the cross after He had the biblical account of Simon’s fallen beneath its weight on His personal encounter with Jesus way to Calvary—a divine on the way to His crucifixion interruption that became the that it became the theme of her crossing point in Simon’s life. Master’s thesis on Negro spirituals. r. Baker’s 20-minute sermonette provided the erera, who is the daughter Dbackdrop for the Passion of missionary parents, oratorio that was to follow. Pdrizzled snippets of Negro It was truly the icing on the cake, Simon of Cyrene Oakwood University spirituals throughout this new Alan Collins, sculptor performed by the Aeolians, the composition. Having lived in Oakwood University Wind Ensemble, thesis on Negro spirituals. It received South America and Spain during her and the Belmont University two standing ovations and called childhood and adolescence, she was (Nashville, Tenn.) Chamber many a handkerchief out of obscurity. always fascinated by spirituals. Ensemble, and conducted by Aeolians When asked why she chose this director, Jason Max Ferdinand. The t a private luncheon reception musical genre as the subject of her elaborate musical composition, held later that afternoon, Perera thesis, she responded, “It is a very entitled Crossing Over , was Ashared a few thoughts about special music, and has been translated Summer/Autumn 2009 HHHHHHoooooottttttlllllliiiiiinnnnnneeeeee

President's Message

guiding force in bringing many of the people. There is still much to be done. projects of our group to fruition. The Although histories of North American financial assistance and support she Colleges have been written up to the and her husband contributed made it beginning of the 21 st Century, time possible for IAMA to continue keeps marching on. Our future needs through the past quarter century. to continue being archived, and there Without her leadership there were are colleges in other countries whose several times when our organization music histories need to be written. I would probably have been disbanded. am sure there are still other musicians Dan Shultz has been at the heart who need to be included in the of IAMA from its conception. He has biographies. Is your biography there? authored and/or edited all of our How about your teachers, students, or C. Lynn Wheeler publications. He has sleuthed out colleagues? For more than twenty-five years information concerning the histories of We all need to feel a now we Adventist musicians have our colleges that would easily have responsibility for our organization. I been keeping in contact with each been lost forever by visiting for hours would encourage you to write an other through IAMA. Much has with people who either remembered or article to be included in Notes , or a been accomplished with job knew where to find information. It is biography of someone who has been postings, our website, IAMA impossible to imagine how many inadvertently omitted. Or maybe you Hotline, Notes , and the histories of hours he has spent in the researching have an idea about something you our North American Adventist and writing of biographies. His would like IAMA to do - please share colleges and other aspects of remarkable skills have also made it it with us. And almost all of us could Adventist music. These possible for all of this information to contribute a few dollars extra beyond accomplishments are due primarily be collected on our website. In many our dues to help with expenses. By all to the efforts of two people - Elsie ways Dan IS IAMA! of us becoming involved, IAMA can Buck and Dan Shultz. The concern, though, is that an continue being an important voice Elsie served as our president organization cannot be totally within our church. for seventeen years. She has been a dependent upon only a couple of C. Lynn Wheeler fruition. The financial assistance accomplished.CONTENTS Although histories of Oakwood University & Simon of Cyrene 1 SDA Music Programs 5 Walker Memorial Academy Steel Band 3 IAMA Biography Project 6 SDA College/University Enrollment 4 A Childhood Odyssey 7 Washington Adventist University 5 IAMA Bulletin Board 8

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Hotline Notes A summary of news provided by the IAMA Hotline , a service of the International Adventist Musicians Association. Additional information: IAMA, Box 476, College Place, WA 99324 Dan Shultz Editor

2 HHHHHHoooooottttttlllllliiiiiinnnnnneeeeee OOaakkwwoooodd . . . persevered and gained access to second language. With the support into about 300 different languages. many of the original musical of Oakwood Music Department There’s something about how each manuscripts. chair Audley Chambers, Ph.D., of these spirituals has its own Aeolians conductor Justin Max story. I think God has somehow fter diligent prayer and Ferdinand, and vice president for protected that music. ” study, Perera took on the Academic Affairs John Anderson, However, when she shared the Afour-month challenge of Ph.D., what has resulted is a subject of her thesis with her writing the musical score that moving contribution to the music graduate professor at Belmont would trace the steps of Jesus on arena that will surely find its University, he didn’t like the topic. the Via Dolorosa, all the way to rightful place among the annals of “He felt I didn’t have enough of a Calvary. It took another month, inspired compositions. background,” she explained. But Perera said, to write the lyrics for the gifted Uruguayan composer the composition in English, her

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The Fire 'n Steel band at WMA in Highland Park, Florida, was the grand prize winner in the instrumental category in Universal Studio's annual Music USA Festival, held in Orlando on March 27, 2009. They were in competition with concert bands and other instrumental ensembles. The USA competitions, which are held in New York and Washington, D.C., as well as Orlando, are the most prominent musical events for middle and high school choirs and instrumental groups on the East Coast. In the competition with other steel drum groups they won first place, which then qualified them for possibly winning the grand prize. One of their members, sophomore Gopaul Sankar, was also chosen as one of five outstanding soloists in the festival The 18 members of the group, directed by Leonard Caan, are drawn from grades 7- 12. They must be able to read and memorize music, play rhythmically, and be members in the school band. Source: Southern Tidings 6/9 3 HHHHHHoooooottttttlllllliiiiiinnnnnneeeeee

SDA College/University Enrollments Enrollment information available as of 17 November 2009 . . . 3,589 students are enrolled, an increase of 170 students or 5% over the previous high- enrollment school year. Overall, headcount enrollment has increased by more than 30% over the last eight years. Additionally, the undergraduate enrollment of 1,816 students is the highest undergraduate enrollment since 1984. There are 483 freshmen overall (the highest in more than a decade). Graduate student enrollment is 1,625 students, the highest graduate student enrollment in more than 10 years. Atlantic 461 undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled, a 19% increase over last year. 1,857 undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled. This year’s freshman class is La Sierra’s largest of the past three years, a 12.2% increase over last year. Oakwood University 1,861 students are enrolled this year, an increase over last year's record enrollment. The president of the OU has promised to do a high-board jump when it reaches 2,000. Pacific Union College 1,511 students are enrolled this year, an increase of 11.1 % over last year's enrollment. Southern Adventist University 2,891 students are enrolled, an increase of 4% over this past year. There are 603 freshmen, the second highest freshmen class ever. This year also marks the university’s 14th successive year of continuous growth. Union College 883 students are enrolled this year, a larger number than the school had anticipated. 1808 undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled this year, an increase over last year. Washington Adventist University 1,049 undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled, a 17% increase over last year. Freshman enrollment is 47% higher than a year ago.

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Columbia Union Music Major College renamed Enrollment and Washington Adventist Faculty in SDA University Colleges and Universities in the Known for nearly a half-century as Columbia Union College, the Adventist college in the U.S. and Canada nation's capitol changed its name and identity to Washington Adventist University this summer. 2009 The school, which celebrated its centennial during the 2003-2004 school year, was first named 428 students are enrolled this autumn as Washington Training College and then music majors in SDA colleges and Washington Foreign Mission Seminary before universities in the U.S. and Canada. This becoming Washington Missionary College in 1914, compares with about 275 in a similar survey a decade after the school was founded. It retained in the 1990s when both public and private that name for 47 years before being renamed colleges and universities across the country CUC in 1961. were all experiencing low enrollments. Since the beginning of the 1970s, when there The music department, under the chairmanship of were 77 full-time music teachers in SDA James Bingham for the last fifteen years, has colleges and universities in North America, gained widespread recognition for the quality and there has been a gradual decline. There are activity of its ensembles. Construction of a new presently 55. music facility, a longstanding need, will begin during this year. Information about the building Current enrollment figures are from a survey of chairs in October/November this year. Other data are from IAMA will be provided, as it is available. files. ds

IAMA Election Results

In the election held this spring, the following IAMA officers were elected to serve on an interim basis for two years (November 2009 - October 2011): C. Lynn Wheeler, President Carlos Flores, Vice-President Dan Shultz, Secretary/Treasurer In the interim, the IAMA Hotline will be serving as the primary conduit for news, articles, and posting of music position vacancies. At IAMA's annual board meeting on November 22 in San Diego, the board reviewed and endorsed a prototype of a four-color newsletter that summarizes Hotline Notes information that will be mailed in early January. It also voted to accept a recommendation that dues be reduced to $15.

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BBiiooggrraapphhyy PPrroojjeecctt NNeeaarrss EEnndd Now in its tenth year, the biography project will end in summer 2010. Over 830 SDA musicians and their biographies have now been listed and the final number will likely exceed 1,000. Since there have been thousands of musicians associated with the Adventist church since its beginnings, the intent of this project from the start was to create a listing of the most famous as well as a sampling or cross section of musicians from all eras and areas of musical service. There have been numerous invitations extended to present musicians to participate in the project. If you have not yet responded, we invite you to do so. A reference book with these biographies will be published at the end of the project. Contact Dan Shultz for additional information and forms needed to be included in this project: [email protected]

New biographies Mary D. Hopkins John Stoddart Ethel Knight Casey at the Website Vidal Hulbert Reger Smith, Jr. Joseph Eunkwan Choi at the Website Ullanda Innocent- Duawne Starling Dagmar Clottu www.iamaonline.com Palmer Rudolf Strukoff Melvin Davis T. Marshall Kelly Donna Hill Strukoff John David De Haan Florence Standish Abel Wes Knox Lisa Benfield Thorman Jason Max Ferdinand Vernon E. Andrews Ana Laura Sverre Valen Maudie Carr Hartman Gerald Babanezhad Hans-Jørgen Holman Pete Lorentz Mae Sorensen Brett Barry Lorne Jones Adriane Mace Wallenkampf Vonda Beerman Katrina Koch Greg Mace John L. Waller David Bell Adrian R. M. Lauritzen Lucy Hatley Mace Kimberly Palmer Gordon L. Brown Barry Lauritzen Max Mace Washington Evelyn Sorensen Helen Sorensen Brown Val Mace-Mapa Kelli Williams-Malcolm Lauritzen Naomi Bruette Tom Macomber Jeffrey K. Lauritzen Joyce Bryant Art Mapa Updated and/or Raejin Lee Angela Bryant-Brown Jim McDonald Expanded Michael J. Stepniak Patty Cabrera Rudy Micelli Trina Thompson Raymond K. Casey biographies Gabriela-Anca Baciu John W. Nuemann Moses A. Chalmers, Jr. Harlyn Abel Vincent Michael O'Brien Carleen Chalmers-Wymer Charles Bell Ryan Wells Jean Magno Ouro Grace Choi Elsie Landon Buck Melvin K. West Cynthia Goodloe Celia Abney Cleveland Palmer Marcelo Constanzo Richard Penniman Of Special Interest . . . Steven Darmody James Rainwater Charles G. Davis As our project concludes and new biographies are Pamela Mashburn Phil Draper listed, an unusual biography or personal story in Rathbun the words of the subject of the biography (a feature Robert Dunkin Scott Reed following the basic biography in some instances) Christopher Ederesinghe Trenton Russell from past and new biographies will be featured. Ruth Lay-Erntson Alessandro Samadello On the following page is Rudolf (Rudy) Strukoff's Ysis España Joe Savino personal story about his childhood in World War II Gary Evans Europe. Strukoff, a music graduate of Andrews Rafael Lennox Fleary University, taught at three academies and was a Scarfullery Cindy Haffner professor at State, Andrews, and Kathy Schallert O. E. Hanna Governor's State universities before retiring in Annie Rebeka Smith F. Graham Heppel 1997. 6 Rudolf Strukoff Mary D. Hopkins HHHHHHoooooottttttlllllliiiiiinnnnnneeeeee

A Painful Childhood Odyssey Rudolf Strukoff

My mother's father came to the United shortage of officers and posted to Crimea to that was how the ordeal ended for us. States at the end of the nineteenth century, slow the German advance. By the spring of We traveled first class (by boxcar!) into bought a farm, and was ready to bring his 1942, my mother's entire family (labeled Germany, arriving there in June of 1945. fiancée over, but she refused. He loved her "undesirables") was sent off to Siberia never This wartime experience became an too much to stay so returned to Russia, to be heard from again. The last trainload of important part of my development. It where he became a wealthy farmer with "undesirables" was doused with gasoline was the "worst of times," to quote a extensive holdings in land, orchards, and and burned because the German army was phrase from Dickens' A Tale of Two cattle. Because he was a German and a too close. My mother and we boys were Cities . Donna and I went to see prosperous farmer, he was taken off to spared because she was married to a Russian Schindler's List and bought the video. I Siberia in the middle of the night in the army officer. have not been able to watch it again. The 1930s, during one of Stalin's purges of The blitzkrieg overwhelmed the circumstances surrounding those efforts landholders. Russian defenders, driving them into the by Schindler are more than just a story He escaped with another prisoner Black Sea and total annihilation. The to me. I witnessed the dying and the and they made their way back home, Germans occupied our city by summer killing. Those remain as painful having to sleep in trees because of the 1942 and it was not possible to get official memories for me. wolves. The family hid him, keeping his information about my father's fate. We My mom had it in her mind from the return a secret. It was during this turbulent heard by word of mouth that he had been time we arrived in Germany that we time that my mother married my father, an killed. He was only 32. should emigrate to America. She applied officer in the Russian army. When the Germans lost the battle of for a visa four years before we actually My father had had a very difficult life. Stalingrad [now Volgograd], they were got it. We departed from the port of When he was ten, his father died during a forced to retreat. Since my mother had Bremerhaven in Northern Germany on famine. He dug the grave himself and worked for the Germans as an interpreter, December 12, 1951, and arrived in the wrapped him in a rug. He couldn't bury she would be branded as a collaborator if New York City harbor on Christmas Eve. him deep enough and the end of the rug we had stayed. Therefore, we had to leave Although a family in North Dakota was still showing when he finished. Russia. We traveled with the Germans in a had sponsored us, we were on our own He became a cavalry officer in the convoy as far as the Ukraine. After that we when we arrived there in the middle of a Russian army. When he married my mom, were pretty much on our own and traveled brutal winter as bad as any in Siberia. who was German, it didn't sit too well in boxcars, oxcarts, open trucks, anything We moved to Harvey, where Sheyenne with his superiors. My mother was an we could find, to get away from the River Academy was located, and Robert outspoken lady and at some point she battlefront, traveling through the Ukraine, and I worked on the farm and attended happened to mention something about a Poland, and into what is now the Czech school while mother worked at the politician that got back to the NKBD, Republic. hospital in town. forerunner of the KGB. They arrested her Along the way we stayed in a refugee When I graduated from there, we and threw her in a common jail that held camp in Poland that was about thirty miles moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, where we men and women together in one room from Auschwitz. In the late fall and winter lived for four years before my brother with no toilet. Fortunately for her, they when the wind was coming from the joined the navy in 1956 and mother and discovered she was pregnant, expecting northeast, we could smell the stench of I moved to Wisconsin. Mother passed me, and they let her go. burning flesh since the camp was closer to away in 1977 and my brother, Bob, in My Dad's superior, who was also a us than it was to the city. My brother and I 1996. good friend of his, told him, "Take your witnessed public executions. The Germans wife and go as far away as you can from were desperate. They couldn't hang onto Strukoff enrolled at Emmanuel Missionary here." He did. He went down to the the large number of prisoners so they would College, now Andrews University, in the Caucasus Mountains region near the line them up against a wall and shoot them. fall of 1957 as a music education major border of Georgia. I was born on the way We were actually in Czechoslovakia and graduated in 1960. He completed a there in Rostov. They stayed there for two during the time when Schindler was able to Ph.D. in music in 1970 at State years and my brother, Robert, was also get some of the Jews safely into that University. Complete biographies for Rudy born there. country, as related in the movie, Schindler's and his wife, Donna Hill Strukoff, also a When Germany attacked Russia, my List . We also saw the first American music graduate from AU and MSU, are father was recalled to the army due to a soldiers arrive in that country in 1945. And provided at www.iamaonline.com )

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Segue 2110 General Conference Session Brass Choir Eric Anderson Band , Cascade Christian Academy, Dean Kravig Wenatchee, Washington Are you interested in playing in the 2010 General Conference Harry Bennett, Jr. Retired , music teacher and pastor, key nd figure in development of the college music programs in Session’s 2 International Brass Choir? We are recruiting Brazil, now residing in National City, California. college-level and professional brass players to play the John Boyd Chair , Music Department, Southwestern service music for the Church Service on June 26, 2010. The Adventist University GC Session will be held in the at the Georgia Naomi Bruette Music Program , Midland Adventist Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. Academy, Shawnee, Kansas Voicing for the Brass Choir will be 3 Trumpet parts, 4 Horn Grace Choi Piano , , Auburn parts, 3 Trombone, Euphonium BC or TC, Tuba, and Percussion. Washington Players must provide their own transportation and lodging. Christie Critz Music Program , , For those of us who participated in the 2005 GC Session Union Springs, New York International Brass Choir, the experience of providing worship David Dunkin Music Program , Mile High Academy, music with 40 high-level brass players from ten different Denver, Colorado countries proved to be well worth the expense. There will also Jason Max Ferdinand Director of Choral Activities , be several other opportunities and venues for performance in Oakwood University, Huntsville, Alabama (since 2008) order to maximize the experience for all those involved. Diana Heinrichs Harp, Keyboard, Auburn Adventist If you are interested in obtaining more information, please Academy, Auburn, Washington contact Dean Kravig, director, at [email protected] Leonard Hild Music Program , Midland Adventist Academy, Shawnee, Kansas Ljuba Kelly Vocal/Choral , Auburn Adventist Academy Katrina Koch Music Program , , Cicero, Adventist Gospel Music Directory Indiana Tina Carriger Bonnie McClarty Keyboard , Auburn Adventist Academy John W. Neumann Retired , Choir Director at Auburn I am putting together a directory that will be distributed to Adventist Academy for the past 18 years, 35 years in all of the leaders within the SDA church, so they will have teaching a reference/resource as to what gospel musicians and Eurydice Osterman Chair, Northern Caribbean singers are available and hopefully use them. I will need University, on leave from Oakwood University each singer and musician to email me the following Asher Raboy Wind Ensemble & classes , Pacific Union information: College (since 2008) 1. Name (first and last), 2. Photo (glossy pic if scanned), Kristii Rasmussen Music . Rogue Valley Adventist 3. Current residence (City/ State), 4. Home church or church School, Oregon they attend, 5. Short bio (1 paragraph either emailed, or in David Rowland Music Program, Holbrook Indian School, Microsoft Word), 6. Contact info (phone number, email Holbrook, Arizona address), 7. Website or myspace page address Trenton Russell Band , Auburn Adventist Academy Michael J. Stepniak Dean, Shenandoah Conservatory of Send this information to: [email protected] Music, Virginia Deadline for submissions is November 30, 2009 . We are Cynthia Owen Stokes Band/Orchestra/Instrumental hoping to have the directory printed and distributed by Music (full-time), Union College February 2010. Ryan Wells Private studio teaching of piano and Questions? Contact me via email, or call 800-328-0525 theory and free lance performer , Hastings, Nebraska Beverly Zacharias Retired , residing in Georgia New Members CD Listings Harry Bennett, Jr., retired minister and music teacher Heritage Singers CDs and DVDs of gospel music Jeremy Francisco, graduate study, Greely, Colorado www.heritagesingers.com/CDs.html Dean Kravig , Band, , Jemuel Anderson, Three different CDs of virtuoso Washington contemporary piano hymn interpretations are available Maurice Woods, retired music teacher, DMA student, www.JemuelAnderson.com Arizona State University Morning Song Store, numerous recordings of Christian Artists www.morningsongstore.com Obituaries Rudolf and Donna Hill Strukoff, two different CDs, singing and solo piano, all proceeds from sales of CDs go to support the Alma Montgomery Blackmon 1921 - 2009 Migdal Ohr (Tower of Light) Orphanage in Northern Israel Frank Graham Heppel 1918 - 2009 [email protected] Barry Jon Lauritzen 1958 - 2009 Ryan Wells, four different CDs of classical piano music are Joni Mae Robinson Pierre-Louis 1927 - 2009 available www.rwpiano.com Biographies at www.iamaonline.com Send information to list your CDs in future mailings.

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