Marilyn N. Lake
Marilyn is an elementary music educator in the Shawnee Mission School District, located in the metro Kansas City area. She teaches private piano and preschool music, and directs two church handbell choirs as well as the Heartland Ringers. She also directs the only hand chime choirs in the Shawnee Mission School District, made up of 5th and 6th grade musicians.
Marilyn has degrees in Music Education and Music Therapy from the
University of Kansas and a Masters in Music Education from Emporia
State University. She is a member of the Handbell Musicians of
America
(AGEHR),
Sigma Alpha Iota Music fraternity,
The National Association for Music Education (MENC) and the Kansas
Music Educators Association (KMEA).
She is the current Past Chair of
AREA 8,
a five-state region within the Handbell Musicians of America. She has been ringing bells for
over forty years, and plays the piano, sings, and performs on the
carillon.
Marilyn was born and raised in Texas, mostly in
the Dallas area. College took her to Kansas. She founded handbell
choirs in Kansas at Rolling Hills Presbyterian Church, Stanley
Presbyterian Church, Circle of Faith Christian Church, and
Southminster Presbyterian Church and in Palos Verdes, California at
St. Peter’s By the Sea Presbyterian Church. Her talent is in
building graded programs that feed on great music and great
fellowship.
Marilyn has two adult
children, a husband of 32
years, and 3 dogs. In her spare time she enjoys KU basketball,
quilting, kayaking, and geo-caching.
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