Ernest Dewey May

Background

May, Ernest Dewey was born on May 8, 1942 in Jersey City. Son of Ernest Max and Harriet Elizabeth May.

Education

AB, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964. Master of Fine Arts, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1975.

Career

Assistant professor music Amherst College, Massachusetts, 1969-1975. From assistant professor to professor music department music and dance University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1976-1988, professor music, chairman department music and dance, 1988-2000, presiding officer faculty senate, 1997-2000, secretary faculty senate, since 2000. Faculty representative board trustees University Massachusetts, 1988-1997.

Chair Intercampus Faculty Council, since 2001. Organist, director museum South Congressional Church, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1983-1905.

Achievements

• Ernest Dewey May has been listed as a notable academic administrator, musician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member National Association Schools Music Commision on Accreditation, American Guild Organists, International Music Society, American Musicological Society (president New England chapter 1988-1990).

Connections

Married Eileen Marie Mayhew, January 29, 1963 (divorced 1984). Children: Ernest Junior, Elizabeth May Goodell, Katherine May Waite, Caroline, Christopher, Abigail May Robles, Deirdre May Maitre. Married Mary L. Milkey, June 29, 1985.

Father:

Ernest Max May

Mother:

Harriet Elizabeth May

Spouse:

Eileen Marie Mayhew

Spouse:

Mary L. Milkey

child:

Abigail May Robles May

child:

Elizabeth May Goodell May

child:

Deirdre May Maitre May

child:

Christopher May

child:

Katherine May Waite May

child:

Caroline May

child:

Ernest Junior May