Kermit Gary Adams (’79 Ph.D.), Bridgewater, Virginia. He served as trombonist in the 328th Army Band and received National Defense Service and Good Conduct medals. He earned a Ph.D. in musicology at North Texas, where he met his wife, Mary Catherine Adams (’77). He was a music professor at Carl Albert Junior College in Poteau, Oklahoma, and Dallas Baptist University, and played trombone in the Fort Smith Symphony in Arkansas. He later taught at Bridgewater College in Virginia — where he earned the Ben and Janice Wade Outstanding Teaching Award — until retiring in 2012 as a Professor of Music Emeritus. Also an adjunct professor at James Madison University in Virginia, he wrote the book William Schuman: A Bio-Bibliography and co-wrote Claudio Monteverdi: A Guide to Research.