1950s Motifs

Jan (Reinhart) Kelley (IAC 51-55, IAC St 59-60), her son Daniel Kelley (IAC 82-86) and Cynthia (Grinstead) Kelley (IAC 87-88) own and operate Last Resort Music Publishing, Inc., which is based in Glendale, Calif. Cynthia and Daniel also own Flutacious!, a flute and piccolo specialty shop, also in Glendale. All three still perform actively as musicians. Jan is a cellist; Daniel performs on horn and Cynthia on flute.

John H. Landis (IAC 53-57) has retired as the program host/announcer for WNED-FM, Western New York’s 24-hour public classical music station. He was WNED's afternoon drive-time host, the host and resident critic of the station's Sunday afternoon new release program “What's New?” and music adviser for Music from Chautauqua. In 2006 and 2008, he was on the panel of judges for the JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition. He has been conductor/music director of the Cheektowaga Community Symphony Orchestra since 1991 in Cheektowaga, N.Y.

David Greenhoe (AS 54-55, IAC 56-60, UM 63) is professor emeritus at the University of Iowa and is principal trumpet with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra in Davenport, Iowa and solo trumpet position with the Lake Placid Sinfonietta, Lake Placid N.Y.

R. Chandler Goetting (IAC 56-57) was principal trumpet of the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio. He and his wife Susan (Jenkins) Goetting (IAC 61, UW 62), former oboist and English hornist with the Munich Philharmonic, are now retired and live in Wisconsin.

Larry Livingston (AS 57-58, IAC Fac 82-93, 96) was the keynote speaker at the University of Wyoming's “Revisioning the (W)hole” conference in late September 2009. Mr. Livingston is professor of conducting at the University of Southern California Thornton School of music, where he is also the music director for the orchestras and chair of the directing department.

Gary Greenhoe (IAC 58-62, UM 63, IAC St 69) is assistant principal trombone with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

Glen Bell (IAC 58-60) is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, former trumpet performer with the United States Army Band in Washington, D.C., former member of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, performed and recorded with the Dallas Trumpets on the Crystal Records label and recently retired Band Director with Plano Intermediate School District. Presently he is performing and teaching trumpet lessons in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

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