Gladys Madsen

Submitted By jev0010 on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 12:00am
Gladys Lundgren Madsen (’56 M.Ed.), Plano, assistant professor of music from 1958 to 1965, died Jan. 23. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and taught in her hometown of Geneva, Ill., before moving to Dallas to teach. After earning her master’s degree from North Texas, she joined the College of Music faculty. She remembered serving as the advisor for Alpha Phi sorority and giving the 1961 Honors Day address as highlights of her time here. She moved to Philadelphia after her marriage in 1965. She collected musical instruments while traveling around the world and gave them to the university. A member of the American Guild of Organists, she served as a church organist for more than 30 years.

Gladys Lundgren Madsen (’56 M.Ed.), Plano, assistant professor of music from 1958 to 1965, died Jan. 23. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and taught in her hometown of Geneva, Ill., before moving to Dallas to teach. After earning her master’s degree from North Texas, she joined the College of Music faculty. She remembered serving as the advisor for Alpha Phi sorority and giving the 1961 Honors Day address as highlights of her time here. She moved to Philadelphia after her marriage in 1965. She collected musical instruments while traveling around the world and gave them to the university. A member of the American Guild of Organists, she served as a church organist for more than 30 years.

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