We rejoice to welcome the newest members of our staff; Phyllis Cragin, our new Organist and Dana H. Whedon, Administrative Assistant. We are doubly blessed.
Phyllis Cragin's career as a performer and teacher has spanned over 30 years. She earned her Bachelor of Music Degree at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she studied piano and clarinet. (Phyllis also plays saxophone!) She was organist and choir director at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Phyllis also composes and arranges instrumental and choral music and teaches private piano, clarinet and saxophone lessons. She and her family live in Stockertown.
Dana Whedon, our Administrative Assistant, majored in Arts Management at Mount Holyoke College and has a deep experience in organizational management and information technology. She has served as Hall Coordinator at the Allentown Symphony Hall and as Assistant to the Director of a dance troupe in Decatur, GA. She is a member of the Cathedral Church of the Nativity where she led the development of the parish profile in the recent search for a Dean and has demonstrated her considerable talent in layout design and publishing. She and her family returned to the Lehigh Valley from Atlanta, Georgia.