Full-Time Music Faculty
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Many agree that the measure of any educational facility is its teachers. There could never be a great university or a great music department without great faculty. Evangel has been privileged to have music teachers, not only gifted and capable, but also thoroughly Christian individuals who have been dedicated to the Lord’s calling – people who loved their students and loved teaching them.
Thirty-eight faculty have served full-time in the history of Evangel – 1955 to 2008. This is a relatively small number and is accounted for by lengthy tenure and significant assistance from adjunct personnel. Together, counting only those serving full-time, music faculty have put in 479 years with an average tenure of more than 12 ½ years. Of course some faculty who served full-time also contributed in a part-time (adjunct) capacity, sometimes for several years. Others, who already have had many years of full-time service at Evangel, continue teaching full-time at this writing (2008). John Shows has the longest tenure on record – more than 40 years, not counting his one year as adjunct teacher. Calvin Johanssen would be next with 39 years of service.
1955-2008 (Alphabetical Listing)
- John Akins 1977-Present (Sabbatical, Fall 1986)
- Otis Autry 1970-1971
- Edna Baker 1957-1979;(1) 1981-82;(2) (Leave of absence – 1964-65) Adjunct faculty 1987-88
- Jane Berg (3) 1996-2001; 2002-2008; Adjunct faculty 1989-1995
- Kenneth Carlson 1967-1968
- Andrew Li-Chung Chei 1963-1969
- Hope Collins 1961-1966
- Samuel Coryell 1986-1996
- Eugene Davis 1962-1965
- Larry Dissmore 1988-Present (Sabbatical 1994-1995)
- Delbert Dugan 1969-1984
- Donald Ellingson 1958-1959, 1962-1966; adjunct 1966-70
- Mary E. Gardner 1958-1964
- Mark Goodwin 1972-1973
- Richard Honea 1981-Present
- Bonnie Mitchell Jenkins(4) 1983-1987; Adjunct faculty 1974-1983, 1993-1995
- Calvin Johansson 1964-2003 (Sabbatical 1970-71)
- Herbert L. Johnson 1980-86
- June Foreman Kean 1955-1957, 1965-1998 (Sabbatical Fall of 1992)
- Michael Kolstad 1991-Present
- Linda Ligate 1986-Present
- Betty Jo Reynolds-Lyons 1959-1962
- Edna McEachern 1964-1965 (1st Woman in US to receive a doctorate in music)
- Gregory Morris 1999-Present
- Joseph Nicholson 1960-1991 (Sabbatical, 1971-1972 and the Fall Semester of 1984)
- Betty Palma 1968-1981; Adjunct, 1998-1999
- Jesse Peterson 1956-1966; Adjunct, 1981 through the fall of 1982)
- Denise Pincombe 1979-1984
- Loren Pinkerman 1970-1972
- Stephen Plate 1981-1988
- Tom Prisoc 1977-1981(5) (Sabbatical 1980-81)
- Anzel Shoults 1960-1961
- John Shows 1967- 2007, Adjunct 1966-67 (Sabbatical 1972 through the Fall of 1973; also Spring 1987(6))
- Harold Smith 1961-1972 (Sabbatical 1967-68)
- Susan Smith 1984-Present (Adjunct 1980-1884) Sabbatical 2006-2007
- E. Lesley Stubbs 1955-1960
- Matthew Warner 2005-2008
- Sharon Wilkins 1984-Present