Kansas Music Review
Spring Issue 2011-12

Arts Day at the Capitol
by Avian Bear, KMEA President-Elect
Mike Quilling, KMEA Vice President, planned a funfilled day for our KMEA delegation, including meetings with Governor Brownback & Staff, Commissioner of Education Diane DeBacker, Deputy Commissioner of Education Brad Neuenswander, Senator Garrett Love, Representative Annie Kuether, and Kansas Board of Education Chair Ms. Carolyn L. Wims-Campbell.

The KMEA delegation included: Mike Quilling, KMEA Vice President; Fred Burrack, KMEA Advocacy Chair; Avian Bear, KMEA President-Elect; Barbara Waraby, President of the Kansas Alliance for Arts Education (KSAAE); and Mrs. Kansas Bobbie Padgett.

Pictured left to right: Barbara Waraby, Mrs. Kansas Bobbie Padgett, Governor Brownback, Avian Bear.
Photo credit: Bob Murray, Director of Advance/Assistant to Governor Brownback.
The Kansas Music Review is the official publication of the Kansas Music Educators Association,
a federated State Association of the National Association for Music Education.