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Officers and Committee Chairs
​2024-2025

OFFICERS

President:  Dr. Sylvia Ryan, NCTM 
Vice President/ Program Chair: Mary Sallee, NCTM
Secretary:  Cindy Pullin
Treasurer/Membership Chair:  Betsy Vaughn
Website/Historian:  Jennifer Walschap, NCTM
Past President/Advisor: Jessica Witt

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Care Chair:  Ursula Purcell
Composition Festival Chair: Jessica Witt 
Fall Festival Chair:  Jessica Witt

Honors Recital Chair/ Scholarship Auditions:  Dr. Sylvia Ryan, NCTM
Hospitality Chair:  
Lending Library Chair:  
Mall Marathon Chair: Cindy Pullin 
Referral Chair: Jennifer Walschap, NCTM


OU Collegiate Chapter Contact: 

Brief History of NAMTA

  • Norman Area Music Teachers Association (NAMTA) was formerly Norman Independent Piano Teachers Association (NIPTA).
  • NIPTA was formed in 1989 by three area independent piano teachers- Laurie McCullough, Judy Reeves and Sylvia Ryan.
  • NIPTA had an eleven-year history in Norman as a non-profit professional and service organization for independent piano teachers; some members were students or faculty at the University of Oklahoma School of Music.
  • Prior to the NAMTA Fall Festival, NIPTA sponsored a yearly multi-piano "Monster Concert" in which teachers performed.
  • NIPTA also sponsored a student Honors Recital, Mall Marathon, and Music Camp Scholarship Audition; these programs continue today through NAMTA.
  • NIPTA affiliated with MTNA in 2000 under the leadership of President Steve Sewell, thereby opening its membership to teachers of all musical instruments and disciplines.
  • During its first year of existence, NAMTA hosted the annual OMTA State Conference in Norman in June 2000 at OU.
  • NAMTA again hosted the OMTA State Conference in June 2006 at OU and in June 2013 at OU.

NIPTA Presidents
Judy Reeves (1988-90)
Sylvia Ryan (1990-92)
Judy Reeves (1992-93)
Claudia Busse (1993-96)
Sylvia Ryan (1996-98)
Judy Reeves (1998-99)
Steve Sewell (1999-00)


NAMTA Presidents
Steve Sewell (2000-03)
Cindy Jarboe (2003-04)
Sylvia Ryan (2004-06)
Cindy Jarboe (2006-08)
Steve Sewell (2008-10)
Mary Sallee (2010-12)
Janet Romanishin (2012-16)
​Jennifer Walschap (2017-18)
Cindy Pullin (2018-21)
​Jessica Witt (2021-2023)
​Sylvia Ryan (2024)


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