NUMA J. SNYDER received a BS in Public School Music from Mansfield State Teachers College in 1942 and a MEd with a major in Music Education from Penn State University in 1954. Numa taught at Union City Public Schools, Union City, PA in 1942 until 1945. He came to Stroudsburg School system in 1945, and was there until 1969. In addition to his duties as department head, he taught in the junior and senior high schools: general music, senior HS Music Appreciation, private string lessons, and 5 performing choral groups. Numa became a professor at East Stroudsburg State College in 1969 where he taught Elementary Music, Harmony, Introduction to Music, American Music, Class Piano, two choral groups, private string lessons, a community-college string ensemble, and a community-college string quartet. At the time of his retirement in 1982 he had taught 40 years in the school system of Pennsylvania. His greatest pleasure was receiving the Teacher Award from Kappa Delta Pi in 1973. After retirement Numa was a disc jockey with the Stroudsburg University station, where he presented a weekly three hour show, "Down Memory Lane."