Emeriti Music Faculty
Bennie Beach, Sr.
WKU Trumpet Professor 1953-1981
b. 1925
Kent Campbell
WKU Director of Bands 1971-1992
1931-2011
Howard Carpenter
WKU Department Head 1953-1984
b. 1919
Virgil Hale
Opera/Voice Professor 1964-1990
1927-2010
David Kelsey
WKU Guitar Professor 1977-2001
b. 1947
Sylvia Kersenbaum
WKU Piano Professor 1976-2006
b. 1941
David "Doc" Livingston
WKU Band Director 1965-1990
b. 1925
Ruth Morriss
WKU Piano Professor 1970-1990
b. 1922
Ohm Pauli
WKU Voice/Choir Professor 1955-1982
1917-2009
Dwight Pounds
WKU Viola Professor 1970-1998
b. 1935
Charles Smith
WKU Flute Professor 1989-2002
b. 1936
Elizabeth Volkman
WKU Voice Professor 1982-2007
b. 1941
Thomas Watson
WKU Clarinet Professor 1967-1988
b. 1923
Mitzi Groom
Western Kentucky University is a fully accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music since 1948.
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