NAfME Honors

Music Educators Hall of Fame

Charles Aiken (1986); Thomas Jefferson Anderson (2008); Barbara Andress (2002); Frank A. Beach (1992); John W. Beattie (1986); Leonard Bernstein (1996); William Billings (1986); Edward Bailey Birge (1986); Clarence C. Birchard (1986); Eunice Boardman (2004); Allen Perdue Britton (1986); Clifford V. Buttelman (1986); Robert A. Choate (1986); Frances Elliott Clark (1986); Satis N(arrona Barton) Coleman (2010); Richard J. Colwell (1998); Julia Ettie Crane (1986); Walter Damrosch (1986); Hollis Dann (1986); William Levi Dawson (1992); Howard Doolin (1996); Peter W. Dykema (1986); Will Earhart (1986); William P. Foster (2000); Charles L. Gary (1994); E. Thayer Gaston (1986); Karl Wilson Gehrkens (1986); Thaddeus P. Giddings (1986); Mabelle Glenn (1986); Edgar B. Gordon (2010); Edwin E. Gordon (1996); Howard Hanson (1986); Austin Harding (1988); Philip C. Hayden (1986); Charles R. Hoffer (2006); Mary E. Hoffman (1998); Hosea E. Holt (1988); Marguerite V. Hood (1986); Wiley L. Housewright (1994); Merle J. Isaac (1996); Benjamin Jepson (2014); Robert Klotman (2004); Jacob Kwalwasser (2006); Vanett Lawler (1986); Warner Lawson (2006); Paul R. Lehman (2000); Charles Leonhard (1994); Carolynn A. Lindeman (2014); Joseph E. Maddy (1986); Clifford K. Madsen (2002); Michael L. Mark (2004); Lowell Mason (1986); Luther Whiting Mason (1986); Osborne McConathy (1986); W. Otto Miessner (1986); Hazel Nohavec Morgan (1998); Russell V. Morgan (1996); James L. Mursell (1986); Robert L. Pace (2008); John P. Paynter (2014); Lilla Belle Pitts (1986); Bennett Reimer (2002); William D. Revelli (1992); Mary Helen Richards (2008); George Frederick Root (1986); Abraham Schwadron (2000); Carl E. Seashore (1986); Eleanor Smith (1986); Gladys Tipton (1996); Paul Van Bodegraven (1988); Louis G. Wersen (1986); Bruce D. Wilson (2010); Harry Robert Wilson (1996)

Lowell Mason Fellows

Lowell Mason was born on January 8, 1792, in Medfield, Massachusetts. In 1833, he co-founded the Boston Academy of Music, and in 1837 he taught music on a volunteer basis. This eventually led to the inclusion of music as part of the regular curriculum of the Boston public schools in 1838. The Lowell Mason Fellow distinction is considered by NAfME to be an important honor, designed for music educators, music education advocates, political leaders, industry professionals, and others who have contributed to music education in their unique way.  For information about designating a prospective Lowell Mason Fellow, please contact Kim Henry at kimh@nafme.org or 571-323-5893.

2023: Alice Hammel; 2022: Ron Meers, John Stroube; 2020: Kathleen Ohlman; 2019: Raymond Doughty; 2017: Frederick Burrack; Roger Hall; Kelly A. Parkes; 2016: Jane Mell Balek; Edwin E. Gordon; Michele Holt; David Waggoner; Christopher B. Woodside; 2015: Henry Leck; Marlynn Likens; Mary Luehrsen; James Mason; Glenn Nierman; Steve Schopp; Cecil Wilder; 2014: Judy Bowers; Natalie Ozeas; Kenneth Raessler; Richard Wells; 2013: Daniel Deutsch; Marvelene Moore; Scott C. Shuler; 2011: Weston Noble; Daniel Steele; Joseph R. Sugar; 2010: Lynn Brinckmeyer; Florence Henderson; L. Scott McCormick; George N. Parks; 2009: Michael Bates; Jere Fridy; Douglas W. Herbert; Fred Irby, III; Randolph Kummer; 2008: Dan Acheson; Tom Batiuk; Joel Biggs; Larry Blocher; Sandra Dackow; Nancy Ditmer; Michael G. George; Sam Hope; Henry Juszkiewicz; Barbara Payne McLain; 2007: Charles H. Benner; David Circle; William S. Marsden; Edgar Rooker; John Stoner, Jr; Steven G. Trull; Davey Yarborough; 2006: Greg Bimm; Leon Burton; Luis Haza; John Larrieu; David Marmel; James Moore; Bert Nelson; Fran Page; Frank Tracz; David Wells; 2005: Arthur C. Bartner; Bob Bergin; Laura Bergin; Michael Blakeslee; Barbara Geer; Wynne J. Harrell; Ruth Ann Knapp; Charles T. Menghini; David Steinmeyer; Rich Taylor; 2004: David Baker; Col. John R. Bourgeois; Robert Earle Buckner; Nora G. Burridge; Michael Davis; Sharon Dunn; Dennis W. Granlie; Paul Heid; Earl Hurrey; Robert H. Klotman; Col. Gary F. Lamb; Joe Lamond; Colleen B. Ramshur; Carroll A. Rinehart; Fred Rogers; Renee Westlake; Larry Williams; 2003: Donald Corbett; Ray Cramer; Deborah Craven; Betty Ellis; John Feierabend; Willie L. Hill, Jr.; June Hinckley; Bill Larson; Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser; Carolynn Lindeman; John Mahlmann; Dorothy A. Straub; 2002: John Benham; Arnold Broido; Mel Clayton; Roy Edward Ernst; Louis Joseph “L.J.” Hancock; Wiley Housewright; Paul Lehman; Bob McGrath; Clifford Madsen; Don Robinson; Will Schmid; Himie Voxman

George N. Parks Award

Developed by the National Association for Music Education and Music for All, the George N. Parks Leadership in Music Education Award is named for the late George Parks, director of the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band. Considered a national authority on drum majoring, Mr. Parks led the George N. Parks Drum Major Academy, including at the Music for All Summer Symposium. The George N. Parks Award honors an exemplary band director who embodies the characteristics and leadership that Mr. Parks showed his students every day.

2022: Dr. Lawrence Stoffel; 2021: no award; 2020: Jennifer Collins; 2019: Edward F. Protzman; 2018: David LaMorte; 2017: Marisa Weinstein; 2016: Thom Hannum; 2015: Patrick M. Erwin; 2014: Cynthia Napierkowski; 2013: Dr. Barry Shepherd; 2012: Daniel Kirk; 2011: Dr. Peter Boonshaft