Background
Gonce, Nancy Cummings was born on May 21, 1939 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Truman and Mozelle (Brown) Cummings.
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Nancy Cummings Gonce
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Bachelor of Science in Library Science, University Alabama, 1961. Master of Science in Library Science, Geroge Peabody College, 1961.
Career
Area librarian, Alabama Public Library Service, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1961-1962;
area librarian, Alabama Public Library Service, Florence, Alabama, 1962-1964;
field representative, Alabama Public Library Service, Florence, Alabama, 1964-1967;
librarian, Riverbend Center Mental Health, Florence, 1972-1978;
program coordinator, U. North Alabama Cooperative Campus Ministry, Florence, 1980-1982;
librarian, Webster Elementary School, Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 1984-1990;
member steering committee, U. North Alabama Cooperative Campus Ministry, 1988-1989;
Chairman of the Board, U. North Alabama Cooperative Campus Ministry, 1989-1990;
library, Muscle Shoals (Alabama) Board Education, 1982-1983, 1984-1990;
program development coordinator, Shoals, Inc., Florence, 1985-1984;
owner, Gonce and Associations, Florence, since 1984. Delegate Alabama governments Conference on Libraries, 1967, White House Conference on Libraries and Information Science, 1979. Advisory Alabama State Committee on Library.
Development, 1973; member committee for regional conferences Alabama governments Conference on Libraries and Information Superior vena cava syndrome. Consultant Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Muscle Shoals, 1985-1986. Executive director water closet Handy Music Festival, Florence, since 1985, music camp, since 1992.
Founding board directors, grants writer Safeplace, Inc., Florence, 1985. Columnist arts/cultural affairs-Fanfare Times Daily, since 1989.
Achievements
Membership
Member founding member board Gingerbread Playhouse, Florence, 1976, Music Presentation Society, Inc., since 1980. Advisory board Kennedy-Douglass Center for Arts, Florence, 1980-1982, Main St., 1992-1994, board directors, 1992-1994. Board directors Florence Ballet Company, 1979-1983, Downtown Florence Unlimited, 1990-1994.
Advisory committee WomanHealth, Birmingham, Alabama, 1981-1983. State conference delegate national conference International Women's Year, Alabama, 1978-1979, University Alabama School Library. Information Studies, since 1993.
Member department of church and society Episcopal Diocese, Birmingham, 1980-1984, Alabama recruiter NBC Election Unit, 1980-1990. Board directors Muscle Shoals Concerts, Inc., since 1990. Secretary-treasurer Muscle Shoals Concert Guild, 1990-1992.
Project director, secretary Frank Lloyd Wright/Rosenbaum House Foundation, since 1991. Secretary, board directors Shoals Communications Theater, since 1992. Board directors Alabama Humanities Foundation.
Member steering committee School Library and Information Studies, University Alabama, since 1993, Children's Museum of the Shoals, since 1995, Festival of the Singing River, since 1995, Fiddler's Convention, since 1995. Member American Association of University Women (Outstanding Service award 1981), Alabama Library Association (various state committees), Chamber of Commerce of Shoals (co-chairman education committee and cultural affairs communications), Alabama Alliance for Arts Education.
Interests
Connections
Married Robert L. Gonce. Children: Nancy Suzanne, Elizabeth Mozelle.
