ObituaryGladys Madsen
Submitted on Thursday, March 29, 2012
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.