Judith Helfer Chase

Background

Chase, Judith Helfer was born on February 19, 1939 in Elizabethton, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of Edward Conley and Faith (Clemons) Helfer.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Music Education, East Tennessee State University, 1962. Postgraduate, Bradley University, 1964. Postgraduate, University Tennessee, Knoxville, 1968.

Student, German Center for International Music Education, 1970. Postgraduate, Oregon Institute of Technology, 1977. Master in Music, University Oregon, 1984.

ML, University Washington, 1986.

Career

Music specialist, Morristown (Tennessee) City Schools, 1962-1963; music specialist, Peoria (Illinois) County Schools, 1963-1964; music specialist, Anne Arundel County Board Education, Annapolis, 1964-1969, 70-73; church organist, private practice piano teacher, Elizabethton, Tennessee and Klamath Falls, Oregon, 1973-1977; with medical records department, Merle West Medical Center, Klamath Falls, 1977-1979; media services cataloger, library aide, music specialist, Klamath County School District, 1977-1985; medical library aide of auxiliary, 1987-1989; assistant professor, reference and documents librarian, Oregon Institute Technology, Klamath Falls, 1986-1989; assistant catalog library, Francis Marion College, Florence, South Carolina., 1989-1990; assistant catalog library, Klamath County Public Library., Klamath Falls, 1992; catalog library, Weyerhaeuser Corporation Library., Tacoma, Washington, 1992-1993. Bassoonist, counselor Brevard (North Carolina) Music Center, summer 1961. Unit leader National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan, summer 1964.

Achievements

• Judith Helfer Chase has been listed as a notable librarian, educator, musician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Director youth choir St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Klamath Falls., 1975-1984. Member auxiliary Klamath Arts Council, 1976-1984. Member online coordinator committee Interinstitnl.

Library. Council Oregon State Systems Higher Education, 1989. Soprano Klamath Symphonic Choir, 1977-1984. Library Plum Ridge Symphony, Klamath Falls, 1979-1984, vice president guild, 1980-1982.

Board directors, library Klamath Youth Symphony, 1983-1989. Member Federal Maritime Commission Artist Series Committee, 1989-1990. Alto Masterworks Choir, Florence, South Carolina., 1990.

Member American Library Association (government documents roundtable since 1987, resources and technical Superior vena cava syndrome.div. since 1988), American Association of University Women, Medical Library. Association (educational media and technical services section 1988-1992), Music Library. Association, Pacific N.W. Library.

Association, Online Audiovisual Catalogers, MacDowell Evening Music Club, National Federation Music Clubs, Delta Omicron (president alumni chapter 1967-1968, Mae Chenoweth Grannisgrantee 1984), Kappa Delta Pi.

Interests

• Avocations: cultural arts, ornamental gardening, traveling.

Connections

Married William Clark Chase, August 8, 1970.

Father:

Edward Conley Helfer

Mother:

Faith (Clemons) Helfer

Spouse:

William Clark Chase