RICHARD THORNE graduated from Mansfield in 1952, received his Masters of Education degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1959, and did graduate work at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana from 1963-64. He was the former head of the department of Humanities and Choral Director at State College High School, Pennsylvania. Richard has appeared as a clinician and workshop consultant in 38 states, and since 1958, has guest conducted some 263 festival choruses ranging from All-City to All-State. He directed the Fortnightly Club of Philadelphia (the second oldest continuing male chorus in the city). Richard has directed the Brass of the Philadelphia Orchestra in a recording session of six new Brass Publications in a sound studio in Princeton, New Jersey in 1977. He was named as Honorary Member of the Central Michigan University Marching Chiefs in 1976 and has served as Chief Choral Adjudicator for Music Maestro Please, Inc. in Orlando, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and New York for eight years.