Biography

Angela serves as the executive assistant to Dr. Kevin Orr in the School of Music. Besides providing administrative support to the director and managing the main office, she publishes the school’s newsletter, prepares IPIFs, coordinates details for faculty/staff searches, and assists with recital/concert publicity. Her many other roles include:

• managing director schedule
• supporting recital attendance procedures
• tracking performance events on college website
• maintaining photocopier
• making office supplies purchases
• taking minutes at faculty meetings
• greeting visitors
• answering phone
• receiving/distributing mail
• arranging accommodations for visitors
• managing catering requests
• maintaining faculty & staff emergency contact information records
• supporting promotion and tenure procedures for faculty
• assisting with managing records for cumulative faculty reports
• tracking administrative and academic deadlines
• assisting with procedures for requesting travel funds
• assisting visitors with parking and locating points on campus

Angela comes from a family that enjoys a cappella singing and music. Among her favorite genres are opera, folk, bluegrass, and traditional country. She enjoys meeting people from other countries and learning languages, and is currently studying Latin American Spanish. For three consecutive years, she has traveled with a mission team to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where she serves in the clinic/pharmacy. Among her interests are singing, reading, cooking, theatre, anthropology, and petting dogs. She has worked as an editor, schoolteacher, tutor, calligrapher, and opera singer.