David McGuire

Submitted By jev0010 on Wed, 12/09/2015 - 1:41pm
David Charles McGuire, 92, Professor Emeritus of music and coordinator of graduate studies in music education from 1962 to 1987, died March 27 in Denton. He conducted the women’s chorus and served as the organizational director of the percussion ensemble before the college had a full-time percussion faculty member. Students named him an “Honor Professor.” He was a member of the Texas Alliance for Arts in Education. He attended Southwestern College in Winfield, Kan., and served in the U.S. Army during World War II before completing his bachelor’s degree in music education at Southwestern in 1947. He earned a master’s degree in music education in 1948 from the University of Michigan and a doctorate in music education from Indiana University in 1959. He directed public school bands in Kansas and Colorado, and directed wind and percussion ensembles and the music education program at Beloit College in Wisconsin. Memorials may be made to the David C. and Katherine I. McGuire Music Education Scholarship fund at UNT.

David Charles McGuire, 92, Professor Emeritus of music and coordinator of graduate studies in music education from 1962 to 1987, died March 27 in Denton. He conducted the women’s chorus and served as the organizational director of the percussion ensemble before the college had a full-time percussion faculty member. Students named him an “Honor Professor.” He was a member of the Texas Alliance for Arts in Education. He attended Southwestern College in Winfield, Kan., and served in the U.S. Army during World War II before completing his bachelor’s degree in music education at Southwestern in 1947.

He earned a master’s degree in music education in 1948 from the University of Michigan and a doctorate in music education from Indiana University in 1959. He directed public school bands in Kansas and Colorado, and directed wind and percussion ensembles and the music education program at Beloit College in Wisconsin. Memorials may be made to the David C. and Katherine I. McGuire Music Education Scholarship fund at UNT.

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