Chapter 1: John McManus
John McManus has been a leader as a high school band director, college professor, mentor, association leader and historian. His life has been dedicated to service to music education. The OMEA Distinguished
Service Award is named in his honor.
Posted with his biography is John's philosophy of teaching and his tribute to his mentor Andrew Loney. John has generously offered many of his teaching materials to OMEA for publication in the members area of the OMEA web site. They are available to our members to print and distribute to their students. |