Founding ACDA Member Interviewed

 

Curtis E. Hansen, the only remaining living ACDA steering committee member, celebrated his 90th birthday on March 18. Hansen, along with steering committee members J. Clark Rhodes, Elwood Keister, Harry Robert Wilson, R. Wayne Hugoboom, Archie Jones, and Warner Imig, were ACDA’s founding members. They held a very important luncheon meeting on February 23, 1959, to lay the organizational groundwork for the American Choral Directors Association during the Music Teachers National Association’s convention in Kansas City, Missouri.Curtis was the only High School choral director to serve on the ACDA organizational steering committee. All other committee members were college or university choral directors.