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A large number of music and music education alumni celebrated the 90th birthday and 65th graduation anniversary of professor emerita of music Helene Rosa Wickstrom '38, who came from her home in Mesa, Arizona, for the event. Associate professor of music education Verna Brummett gave a presentation on music education today, conducting a small ensemble of ICS students in a demonstration of the success of the teaching methods that Wickstrom developed years ago, along with her late husband, Carl Wickstrom '38, and late colleague Celia Slocum-Blair '38. "Helene, Carl, and Celia established our student teaching program for juniors at Immaculate Conception School in downtown Ithaca," says music professor Mary Arlin '63. "In most music education programs juniors are not out in the schools getting hands-on experience. But in the Ithaca College School of Music program future teachers are strengthened under our supervision before they go out in the public schools, and so our students get well placed upon graduation. The pedagogy developed by the Wickstroms was very strong, and our music education program is recognized nationally, largely because of it." |
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