[Members] Steve Reed awarded the 2009 Elizabeth A.H. Green School Educator Award

[Rick Dapprich, Editor]

Steven L.  Reed, our immediate MASTA Past-President, was named the  
recipient of the 2009 Elizabeth A.H. Green School Educator Award at  
the National ASTA conference in Atlanta. The Elizabeth A.H. Green  
School Educator Award is presented annually to a school string teacher  
with a current and distinguished career in a school orchestral  
setting. The award is given to one public school string teacher per  
year on the national level.

Mr. Reed has been teaching instrumental music in the St. Joseph Public  
Schools since 1977 and is now the Conductor of Orchestras and chairman  
of the Fine Arts Department. He also directs the Lake Michigan Youth  
Orchestra program sponsored by the Southwest Michigan Symphony  
Orchestra. Mr. Reeds holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree, cum  
laude, from Western Michigan University with graduate work at the  
University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Indiana University  
and Andrews University. Mr. Reed was elected “Michigan Orchestra  
Teacher of the Year” in 1997 by the membership of the Michigan School  
Band and Orchestra Association (MSBOA), and received the Michigan  
American String Teacher Association (MASTA) “Teacher of the Year”  
Award in 2004. He is recognized in the “Who’s Who Among America’s  
Teachers”, and has served MSBOA as Vice-President of Orchestral  
Activities and as President of District VI for two terms.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://astamichigan.org/pipermail/members_astamichigan.org/attachments/20090323/a59e30a4/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Steve Reed.png
Type: image/png
Size: 48462 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://astamichigan.org/pipermail/members_astamichigan.org/attachments/20090323/a59e30a4/attachment.png>