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Personal BackgroundI'm
a professor of music (music
faculty), completing my 29th year at Wake
Forest. Before arriving here, I was an assistant professor
in theory and musicology at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester,
NY, for 6 winters, and in theory and music history at the Baylor University
School of Music, Waco, TX, for 4 1/2 years before that, where I also
earned undergraduate degrees in music theory and composition, and
in vocal music education. My Ph.D. in musicology is from the little
school east on Interstate 40 that is built on a hill with a chapel
atop. I also earned an informal minor in music theory. The
issues of women's studies have interested me for most of my life, back
to the days of watching my grandmother, a seamstress, work until she
was 75 years old in one of the "sweat shops" of Dallas, TX. Her
pride, skill, tenacity, and gentleness inspired me to invest both practically
and academically in those issues that affect women, and indeed that
affect all people: fundamental human dignity in an hierarchical world
that undervalues some of us.
My
son John
graduated from North Carolina State with a BS (major in computer
science, minor in math) and a BA (major in English, minor in Spanish).
He is assistant director, IS Continual Service Improvement Team, at Wake Forest U. His spouse, Lauren Pressley, is an award-winning, bookauthoring librarian of instructional design at the Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest. My grandson, Leif, just turned one year old. He is a combination of Mozart and Einstein to this grandmommy! My
mother, sister, and brother-in-law live in Dallas. My nieces and great-niece
live in Leander, TX, and Nashville, TN. Our family roots go back to
Scotland and England. Great cooks, great talkers, crazy senses of
humor--that's our clan! |
