Two enter CSC Music Hall of Fame
Two Chadron State College graduates who began their careers as teachers in northwest Nebraska high schools were inducted into the CSC Music Hall of Fame last week during the concert given by the Bordeaux Community Band and the Chadron Community Chorus.
Dan Long is a Mullen native who has earned many awards as a band and orchestra director in Michigan. He launched his career at Hay Springs High School after graduating from CSC in 1961. He later taught at Sidney High School before moving to Slauson Middle School in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he directed both the band and the orchestra.
In 1980, Long was named the Michigan Band and Orchestra Association’s Teacher of the Year. He was president of Michigan’s American String Teacher Assocation 1983-86, and was selected the organization’s Teacher of the Year in 1989. A few years later, he received the national award from ASTA.
Long has been a clinician at the International Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. Many of his articles have been in national publications. He received Chadron State’s Distinguished Service Award in 1994.
Jim Rosenquist is a Shickley, Neb., native who taught music at Sioux County High School in Harrison for six years after graduating from CSC in 1980. He has been in the Palmdale, Calif., School District since leaving Sioux County High, and has been named the district’s “teacher of the year” twice, in 994-95 and 2002-03.
After he received the award the second time, the headlines in the newspaper stated, “Crowning a Jewel.” The principal of the school where Rosenquist works calls him “the consummate teacher.”
“He comes early, stays late and will do anything to help a kid succeed.”
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