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Chapter News Brother Bill Clark is given the Orpheus Award
Brother Clark has served as a clinician for many instrumental clinics, and has greatly advanced music across the nation. He served as Delta State University's band director from the 1970s into the mid 1980s, and now lives in Los Cruces, New Mexico, where he served as head of the New Mexico State University music department, director of NMSU bands, conductor of the Mesilla Valley Concert Band and organizer of the Las Cruces New Horizons band. During Clark's tenure as department head, the number of music majors at NMSU more than doubled. The DSU band in the 1970s and 1980s saw a similar growth from his dynamic leadership.
Designed as a local-level counterpart of the National Citation, the Orpheus Award was first presented in 1973 to Will B. Green by Mu Omega Chapter. Since then it has been awarded about three hundred times.
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Joe Raymond, Theta Upsilon president, bestowed this award to him,
saying, "One of the objectives of Phi Mu Alpha is the advancement
of music in America; it is something that we really strive for.
Our chapter, at the beginning of the school year, when we discovered
that Dr. Clark would be the clinician this weekend, we talked about
how he is a true example of the advancement of music in America,
through his tenure as director of bands at Delta State, and across
the country in other schools and clinics, shaping young minds and
really pushing people to become great musicians. He has really
exemplified what this is. To show our appreciation to Dr.
Clark this weekend, we would like to present him and honor him with
the Phi Mu Alpha Orpheus Award."