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Show October 9, 2003 - The Pyramid - Page Three NSHS ntUSIC director Reay Utah website dedicated to teaching SALT LAKE CITY-Rela- y Utah launched relayut-ah.go- v on Sept. 30, making information about its toll free MT. PLEASANT Local efforts are coming together to help make a piano benefit, "Dreams Come True" a reality. The concert is sched- being desperate for money, he accepted a teaching job in Moapa Valley, NV, teaching band and choir. To his surprise, he disuled to be performed Satur- covered that he enjoyed day, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. at teaching, especially high North Sanpete High School school students. auditorium, featuring guest During the Nevada years, James Oneil he studied piano with an performer, Miner. excellent Italian concert Ticket sales and local pianist named Guiodo Roet-tefund raising efforts will be who then lived in Las the sole means of paying for Vegas. Ellefson says that he a new baby Grand Piano for took a lot of music classes, NSHS. The public is encourbut it was Roetter who taught him to be a musician. to this make all aged help He regrets that although this happen by supporting he was a good pianist then, event. Tickets are available from teaching, family and church NSHS music students, at the have consumed so much of NSHS office or Skyline his time that his piano skills have deteriorated. Pharmacy. One of Ellefsons lifetime Miner is donating his was to earn a Ph.D. so all goals performance, money collected will go directly for After five years of teaching in Nevada, he moved his the piano. One of the many teachers family, wife, Bonnie, and that have influenced students infant son, Ryan, to Florida over the years is Dr. Roy where he spent the next three Ellefsen, who has contributed years at Florida State Universo much to the music departsity earning a Ph.D. in hument at North Sanpete High manities, the history of the arts and literature. School. In 1980, he accepted a Dr. Roy Ellefsen has been music 23 for position at North temporary teaching years at NSHS. His quest for Sanpete High School (NSHS) excellence has benefited the teaching band and choir. He doesnt know when it was students he teaches. Consistently, he produces that he decided to stay at quality sound from those he NSHS. h Somehow a instructs in his concert choir. The support of a quality tool, temporary position turned such as the new piano, will into a stay. During only compliment the work that time, he and Bonnie that he already is doing with bought a home, raised four the students. Supporting a children, all of whom have quality teacher giving quality attended NSHS. education is what this project Although he came to NSHS as a band teacher, his is all about. Ellefsen was born in Salt Ph.D. allowed him to inLake City to Howard and creasingly move into teaching Meryl Ellefsen. Ellefsen is a English and humanities classNorwegian name, and al- es and he eventually quit teaching band. though only Ellefsen now teaches only he has always been proud of music class, the highly one his Scandinavian heritage. The family moved to praised and successful North Murray when Ellefsen was Sanpete High School Concert young where he attended Choir. Four years ago, the local schools and graduated president of the Utah Music Education Association (UM-- J from Murray High School. Some of his favorite EA) heard the concert choir activities perform at a choral competiwere music, debate team and tion, at which they received an I rating, and invited them tennis. He was student director of the band and president to perform for the UMEA and accompanist for the convention the following winter in St. George. That choir. was probably the highest Ellefsen attended Brigham Young University (BYU) on honor that the choir has a music scholarship, mostly received. Ellefsen loves to learn. for a composition he had written while in high school. During the years in Sanpete, He graduated with a major in he has earned several fellowmusic theory and a minor in ships from the National French, later receiving a MA Endowment for the Humanifrom BYU in musicology. ties, which have allowed him Ellefsen served an LDS to study Chaucers Cantermission to Ireland as an older bury Tales at the University Arthurian missionary, age 21, but he of Rochester, loved it and has had a special History and Literature at the love for Ireland and especialUniversity of Puget Sound, ly Irish folk music, ever The Life and Works of Mosince. zart in Vienna, Austria, and At BYU, he roomed with most recently. Gothic Cathean art major who interested drals and Medieval Culture him in art and art history, in Paris, France. another love which he has He also spent a summer at the University of Quebec pursued throughout his life. Ellefsen didnt want to be at Chicoutimi studying a teacher, in fact, he did all French, and has spent the he could to avoid it, but last three summers at Utah State University studying Latin. Ellefsen s philosophy of teaching is that you only need two things to be a good teacher. You need to love the subjects that you teach and you need to love the kids whom you teach. -1 service and other resources easier to access by Utahs deaf, hard of hearing, speech disabled communities and their friends and families. 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