PORTER EIDAM received his BS in Music Education from Mansfield University in 1961, his MM in Woodwind Performance and Pedagogy from Michigan State University in 1978 and is currently in residence for DMA in Orchestral Conducting at Michigan State University. Since 1968 Porter has been teacher of woodwind instruments at Pottstown School District, Pottstown, PA. He is a frequent guest conductor of interscholastic music festivals in the Mid-Atlantic and New England States. Porter is on the PMEA-Approved list of conductors for All State Festival Groups, both for Band and Orchestra. He has assisted in the development of an educational partnership between the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra and the Pottstown School District (a program which has been selected as a state-wide model). Since 1982 Porter has been Music Director/Conductor of the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra and the Pottstown Chamber Orchestra. He has performed with many "name" entertainers such as Liberace, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Margaret Whiting, Andy Williams, Roger Williams, Helen O'Connell, James Darren, Sergio Franke, George Burns, Debbie Boone, Shari Lewis, and many others.