Some of my strongest memories of that first decade here are the Quartet’s concerts on Corbett stage, and I endeavored to live up to the beautiful standards that they had set. It was the Quartet who were instrumental in getting Percussion Group Cincinnati the appointment to CCM. I came to the CCM faculty as a quite young person. There’s something a touch poetic for me about retiring along with Lee Fiser - the final retirement from the LaSalle String Quartet. Who would have thought that almost two decades later my passion for teaching has only increased because of the talented students and faculty that I have had the pleasure of working with! Thank you all so much! – Patti James In 1999, I received a call asking me to teach at CCM.
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Almost my whole professional life has been at CCM, more than four decades worth of experiences. I worked with so many wonderful colleagues over all these years, some are sadly no longer with us. We did four concerts a year in Corbett and two to four international tours a year. It was an exciting time for me, as I was starting in LaSalle Quartet. Werner Hall and Starbucks weren’t here and CCM had about half of the students it does now. When I started fall 1975, DVAC was the Schmidlapp Gymnasium, Memorial was a women’s dorm, the main way to the garage was from Calhoun down to CCM garage - the connector tunnel didn’t exist. I feel honored to have worked with such stellar teachers and artists! – Mary Stucky Some of my favorite times at CCM revolve around hearing and interacting with such a wonderful faculty, be it at their concerts, at committee meetings, or in day by day interaction. I look forward to continuing to serve on the CCMPower board, raising money for scholarships, and helping to ensure that CCM will be here for another 150 years, training and graduating outstanding music professionals. CCM is about to celebrate its 150th anniversary.
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I’ll be forever grateful that I have been able to come full circle, and share the training I received at CCM with another generation of students. It is rare for a university to recognize adjunct contributions, and I salute UC for doing so.
I would like to thank UC for recognizing and honoring the work of adjunct faculty.
I have no words to express what that meant to me, and the joy I feel, seeing them claim their places on Broadway and other stages, following their dreams. A number of my students surprised me in New York with a champagne brunch on April 2 to celebrate my retirement. I’ve been truly honored to work with wonderful colleagues, and to have been given the opportunity to teach and mentor my talented and remarkable students. I call it simply “the gift I gave myself.” As an older professional, it means so much to continue to contribute and feel appreciated. These past seven years have been a total joy. In 2009 my husband and I retired to Cincinnati, where I received an unexpected invitation to return to CCM - my alma mater - to teach musical theatre voice as an adjunct professor. This year marks my 48th year of continuous work - 21 years as a singer/actress, and another 20 years as a college professor and theatre producer.
As the academic year comes to a close, we celebrate the careers of nine retiring faculty and staff members who have given nearly 250 years of combined service to UC’s College-Conservatory of Music.
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