Thomas Erdmann, 84, concluded his earthly journey of love, adventure, and service to pass into eternal life Friday, May 28th. Our sadness and loss are immense, but outweighed by our
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Clarinetist Erin Eady ’20 was named winner of the annual Graduate Instrumental Division Student Soloists Competition at Shenandoah Conservatory on Sunday, Feb. 21. Eady is pursuing a master of music degree in clarinet performance while serving as a graduate assistant under the tutelage of Professor of Clarinet Garrick Zoeter.
While at Elon, Eady studied privately with Thomas Turanchik and worked regularly with accompanist Sharon LaRocco. She was principal clarinet in the Elon University Orchestra for four years under the direction of Thomas Erdmann and performed with the Elon Music Ambassadors led by Virginia Novine-Whittaker. She was a recipient of the Elon Presidential, Orchestral and Music Department scholarships recipient and earned a bachelor of arts degree in arts administration and music in the liberal arts with minors in communications
Sowande Mustakeem 00 is an associate professor of history and African and African-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the highly acclaimed “Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex and Sickness in the Middle Passage.
Sowande’ Mustakeem ’00, author of “Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex and Sickness in the Middle Passage,” shares her story of loss, triumph and success, since graduating as Elon’s first African & African-American Studies major.
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Oct. 25, 1997, is a day Sowande’ Mustakeem will never forget. That’s when she and two friends traveled to Philadelphia, joined by roughly 750,000 other Black women, to cry out for social and economic development in America’s Black community. That event – the Million Woman March – would prove to be a pivotal point in Mustakeem’s story.