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• Dr. Eleanor Stubley
  Excepted rom the McGill Reporter: Eleanor Stubley was an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Students in the Schulich School of Music. Prof. Stubley was born in Brampton, Ontario. She earned her Ph.D at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, her M. Mus. from Brandon University and her B. Mus. from the University of Toronto. In 1989, she joined McGill, where she taught music education, musicology, and performance. “Eleanor Stubley was a vital member of the Schulich School of Music community,” said Brenda Ravenscroft, Dean of the faculty. “As Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, she demonstrated on a daily basis profound devotion and fierce advocacy for students, learning, and artistry. An accomplished choral conductor and a thought-provoking scholar, she constantly found unique ways to bridge performance and research, and was an influential mentor for countless graduate students. She was a beloved colleague, who inspired all those around her with her humanity, passion and courage.” Prof. Stubley conducted ensembles around the world, including the Massey Singers, Elektra, Laapula, the Bach Festival Orchestra, and members of the Canadian Opera Company. Her artistic creations include The Pines of Emily Carr, a performance documentary about the relationship between inspiration and place, and Living Gestures, a multimedia concert series that was performed in Canada and Finland. As the founder and artistic director of Chora Carmina, she helped create innovative collaborations between Quebec musicians and visual artists. In a message to the McGill community, Principal Suzanne Fortier said that Prof. Stubley “was critically acclaimed as both a scholar and an artist” and “will be greatly missed” in the McGill, Montreal and international music communities of which she was such an important member. Principal Fortier noted Prof. Stubley’s long-term commitment to the Yellow Door Choir, “which used the power of song to raise more than $65,000 for social justice organizations dedicated to tackling such issues as homelessness, women and violence, and illiteracy.” Stubley was the community choir’s music director from 1998 to 2014.
• Dr. Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman
  From the University of Illinois Archives: Music educator and researcher Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman was born in Peoria, Illinois. She graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1951, with a Bachelor of Music degree and majors in Piano and Music Education. She earned a Master's of Science degree in 1955 and a Doctor of Education degree in 1963, both from the University of Illinois, and both in Music Education. Her teaching career began with three years of elementary and junior high school general music instruction in Illinois. She was an instructor at Illinois Wesleyan from 1955-1956. She then served for three years on the music education faculty of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, before returning to the University of Illinois as an instructor from 1959 to 1964. From 1964 to 1968 she served as associate professor at Northwestern University. On December 16, 1967, she married Vernon Zimmerman and returned to the University of Illinois for three years as visiting associate professor from 1968 to 1971. She also served as visiting associate professor at Illinois State University, The College-Conservatory of Cincinnati, the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Victoria. She served as director of the Music Program at Temple University in 1978-1979 and was the Distinguished Flora Stone Mather visiting professor at Case Western University in 1980-1981. In 1987, she returned to the University of Illinois School of Music as Professor of Music Education, a position she held until 1993. Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman's research focused on music education, with emphases in early childhood education and the study of cognitive influences on the musical learning of children. In 1968 she conducted, with Lee Sechrest, an H.E.W. Research Project entitled "How Children Conceptually Organize Musical Sounds." She served as editor of the "Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education" and on the editorial review board of "The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning." During her research career she published more than fifty articles in various journals in her field. She also participated regularly in the International Society for Music Education. Many of Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman's writings are available in the book "On Musicality and Milestones : Selected Writings of Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman with Contributions from the Profession" edited by Mark Robin Campbell and published by the University of Illinois School of Music in 2002. In 1991 Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman and her husband established the Vernon and Marilyn Pflederer Zimmerman Foundation, which provided funds for doctoral fellowships, conferences and other scholarships relating to early childhood education and cognitive learning in early music education. The Foundation remains active as of February 2010.
• Dr. Liz Wing
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• Dr. Janet Montgomery
  From archived material at the University of Maryland: Janet Montgomery joined the University of Maryland music education faculty as the general music specialist in 2007 and served as Chair of the music education area. Prior to her work as Arts Coordinator for the Denver Public Schools, she served as an Associate Professor of Music Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has also taught at Ithaca College (NY) and Wright State University (OH), and in the Wichita (KS) Public Schools. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BME and MME degrees from Wichita State University.  Her publication record includes co-author of "Musical Growth in the Elementary School" (Harcourt and Brace, 1996), a program author of "The Music Connection, Grades K-8" (Silver Burdett, Ginn, and Foreseman, 2000), author of various articles on special learners and comprehensive musicianship, and co-author of a chapter on contemporary curriculum in "The New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning" (Oxford, 2003). Her latest publications appeared in "Music Educator Journal" (January 2005 and March 2006). She is a past Chair of Society for General Music in the Music Educators National Conference, past Chair for the ISME Commission of Music in Special Education, Music Therapy, and Music Medicine, and Past President of the Colorado Music Educators Association. She was a Special Learners Chair for Maryland Music Educators Association. Her research interests include history of music education, psychology of music learning, special needs students, and teacher education. 
• Dr. Eunice Boardman