NANCY APPLIN PIERCE received her BS in Music Education from Mansfield in 1972 and has taken graduate studies at the State University of New York at Oswego, Potsdam and Brockport as well as the Eastman School of Music. She has completed twenty years of music teaching, and since 1981 has been the Junior/Senior High School Vocal and General Music Director in Kendall, NY. In the spring of 1989 Nancy was the first recipient of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra's "Outstanding Music Educator - K-12 Choral Director" Award; in 1990 she became an MENC nationally registered music educator. For the NYSSMA she was chairperson for the All-State Chorus in 1988 and 89 and chairperson of the Voice Division in 1990 and 91. She was the Second Vice-President of the American Choral Directors Association in 1992. Presently she is second Vice-President of NYSSMA for a two-year term 1993-95 and President of ACDA for a two-year term 1993-95. Nancy we are proud of your success as a choral director and a professional music educator.