Region VI Blog
  • $15,000 Grant to AGO from The National Endowment for the Arts
    I just received this press release from the national office of the AGO. It's great news! Jan  NEW YORK CITY — The American Guild of Organists (AGO) has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the 2012 AGO National Convention in Nashville,...
  • Your future and that of the Guild
    I receive multiple chapter newsletters each month, both in regular mail and via e-mail, and I am always impressed with the activities, issues, and opinions mentioned in these publications.  Below is a Dean's Message from Larry Wheelock, Dean of the Milwaukee chapter, which greatly inspired me when I read...
  • Free Certification Webinar
    Please see the invitation below.  Free webinars are a new tool being incorporated into AGO offerings to members.  If you have a computer with speakers, you will be able to access experts on a wide variety of topics.  I encourage anyone interested in the Guild certification program to "virtually attend"...

History

Past Deans

1922-23 Edgar McFadden 1965-67 Aline Perkins 1986-88 Philip Rowland
1926-28 Walter Wismer 1967-69 Richard H. Strand 1988-90 Robert J. Hutcheson, Jr.
1931-33 Alfred Lee Booth 1969-71 Elizabeth Buck 1990-92 Yvonne Lafser (Sullivan)
1934-35 Hugo Hagen 1971-72 Frank Perkins 1992-94 Barbara Raedeke
1935-37 C. Albert Scholin 1972-74 E. Alan Wood 1994-96 Mary Hitchcock-Reinhart
1946-47 Howard B. Kelsey 1974-76 Marie Kremer 1996-98 William (Pat) Partridge
1955-56 Mary Friess 1976-78 Kathleen A. Thomerson 1998-00 Henry Glass
1957-58 Gordon Williamson 1978-79 Earl Naylor 2000-02 Kathleen Bolduan
1958-59 Robert M. McGill 1979-81 Thomas R. Pearce 2002-04 John Romeri
1959-61 Charles H. Heaton 1981-83 Fern S. Black 2004-06 Stephen Mager
1961-63 Fern O. Kelly 1983-85 David Porkola 2006-08 Martha Shaffer
1963-65 Bill Davidson 1985-86 Fern Hieb

2009-11

Charles Peery

2011- Henry Evans