Marilynn Jean Smiley

Background

Smiley, Marilynn Jean was born on June 5, 1932 in Columbia City, Indiana, United States. Daughter of Orla Raymond and Mary Jane (Bailey) Smiley.

Education

Bachelor of Science (State scholar), Ball State University, 1954; Master of Music, Northwestern University, 1958; certified, Ecoles d'Art Americaines, Fontainebleau, France, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy (Graduate scholar, Delta Kampa Gamma scholar), University of Illinois, 1970.

Career

Public school music teacher, Logansport, Indiana, 1954-1961; faculty music department, State University of New York-Oswego, since 1961; Distinguished Teaching professor, State University of New York-Oswego, since 1974; department chairman, State University of New York-Oswego, 1976-1981. Presenter papers at conferences.

Achievements

• Marilynn Jean Smiley has been listed as a noteworthy Musicologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board directors Oswego Opera Theatre, since 1978, Oswego Orchestra Society, since 1978, Penfield Library. Associates, since 1985. Member of American Association of University Women (grantee 1984, president Oswego branch 1984-1986, branch council representative district III, New York State division 1986-1988, branch council coordinator New York State division 1988-1990, New York division area intererst representative cultural interests 1990-1992, New York division diversity director 1993-1996, Oswego branch diversity chair since 1995, New York state unofcl. historian 2000-2004, New York state historian since 2004, co-president Oswego branch since 2007), National Organization of Women, Oswego County History Society, Early Music American, American Recorder Society, Society of America Music (membership chair 1998—2003, member membership committee since 2003), Renaissance Society of America, College Music Society, Music Library.

Association, Medieval Academy American, American Musicol. Society (chairman New York chapter 1975-1977, chapter representative to American Mathematical Society council 1993-1996, board directors New York State-St. Lawrence chapter 1993-1996, member status of women committee 1997—2000), Oswego Recorder Consort, Ontario Singers, Heritage Foundation of Oswego, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Delta Pi, Sigma Tau Delta, Sigma Alpha Iota, Pi Kappa Lambda, Delta Phi Alpha, Phi Delta Kappa, Delta Kappa Gamma (music chair State of Indiana 1961, music chair State of New York 1968).

Connections

Father:

Orla Raymond Smiley

Mother:

Mary Jane (Bailey) Smiley