Mildred Gaddis named foundation fellow.

Mildred Gaddis named foundation fellow. Mildred Gaddis, of Hockessin, Delaware, recently received the MusicTeachers National Association (MTNA MTNA Music Teachers National AssociationMTNA Middle Tennessee Nursery Association (McMinnville, Tennessee)) FOUNDATION Fellow award. At acelebration of her ninetieth birthday in April 2003, friends andcolleagues presented her with the Fellow certificate and pin to honorher fifty years in the music teaching profession. Gaddis has a long record of service to MTNA including organizingthe Delaware State Music Teachers Association (DSMTA) in 1959 andserving as president, treasurer and chair of numerous committees. Shealso assisted in organizing the MTNA Eastern Division in 1960 and heldthe offices of president, vice president and representative to theNational Certification national certificationLab medicine A voluntary form of regulation that affirms that a person has the knowledge and skill to perform essential tasks in a given field, in the lab or in nursing; NC is granted by nongovernmental agencies or associations with Board. She twice was honored by DSMTA as Teacherof the Year and received the DSMTA Service Award in 1988. Gaddis studied at Nebraska Wesleyan and Northwestern Universitiesand received B.S. and M.A degrees from Teachers College, ColumbiaUniversity Teachers College, Columbia University (sometimes referred to simply as Teachers College; also referred to as Teachers College of Columbia University or the Columbia University Graduate School of Education . She was employed by the United States government for nineyears as stenographer An individual who records court proceedings either in shorthand or through the use of a paper-punching device.A court stenographer is an officer of the court and is generally considered to be a state or public official. , secretary, administrative assistant and actingpersonnel director in the Public Buildings Administration. A twenty-five-year member of the University of Delaware [3] The student body at the University of Delaware is largely an undergraduate population. Delaware students have a great deal of access to work and internship opportunities. faculty,Gaddis is presently associate professor emerita. She received theUniversity of Delaware Excellence in Teaching award in 1973. Afterretiring from the university, she continued teaching piano and theory inher home. Gaddis retired from a fifty-year teaching career in 1997. She will be recognized at the FOUNDATION FUND Gala during the 2004MTNA National Conference in Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It encompasses parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest in Missouri, which includes counties in both Missouri and Kansas. .