The purpose of SOMD Advancement Council is to represent the mission of the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance. As advocates for the school, members of the council are asked to assist in three key responsibilities: advocacy, fundraising and sharing of expertise.
Jon and Mary Hogen
Chair(s)
Pasadena, CA
Joined 2015
Jon and Mary’s son, Palmer, graduated from the UO in June 2019 with degrees in Computer Science, Math and Music. He is their only child.
Jon is a financial advisor with LPL Financial in Pasadena. Mary sits on the board of her family’s foundation based in Montgomery, Alabama. The foundation annually awards small scholarships to local high school students attending college.
The Hogen’s also serve on the Parent Leadership Council under the direction of the Office of Student Life. Jon was a longtime board member of the Ojai Music festival (termed off).
Jan Monti, '69, ’71
Vice Chair
Seattle, WA
Joined 2015
Janice (Jan) M. Monti founded The JANUS Group in 1991 to work with organizations and individuals wanting to improve their effectiveness. Growing from a foundation in career transition counseling, her work spans leadership training and coaching, team development and facilitation, culture change and retreat facilitation. The focus of her work rests on a three-part model of creating a clear and compelling picture of the future, developing a strategy to get there, and internalizing the discipline & practices required to stay the course.
Jan was Founding Director of the Executive MBA Program at the University of Washington. Under her leadership, the program achieved a top 20 ranking in Business Week as one of the nation's leading EMBA Programs. Prior to joining the UW, Jan was recruited by one of the Northwest's leading commercial banks to initiate and manage all training activities associated with its highly successful transition to retail banking. She also led a nonprofit training institute and worked as a college counselor and faculty member.
Jan holds a B.A. in Psychology and M.A. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Oregon. She is an active member of the community where she has served on several non-profit boards. She is a long-standing member of the King County Junior Achievement Board. She completed ten years as a Trustee of the University of Oregon Foundation in 2014 and is a past Director of the University of Oregon Alumni Association. She is the 2008 recipient of the U of O’s Jean Johnson Award given to the outstanding alumni of the year.
Connie Kulick
Eugene, OR
Joined 2017
Connie graduated from California State University in Sacramento, California in 1971 with a BSN, PHN in nursing and public health.
During her professional career in nursing spanning 39 years, she was a Navy nurse during Vietnam, village nurse in Guam, nurse manager of an Urgent Care and an Emergency Room and a staff nurse at multiple Level I and Level II trauma centers.
Upon her husband Tom’s retirement from the US Coast Guard, the couple returned to his family home in Eugene. They have two adult daughters.
Connie has been committed to several Eugene non-profits organizations over the last 17 years including WomenSpace and SOMD. She has sat on both the Looking Glass and Eugene Opera boards. She is one of the founders of the opera guild, Opera Ambassadors, and was their first President.
Sherrie Barr
Corvallis, OR
Joined 2020
Sherrie Barr earned her MFA in performance and choreography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a Certified Practitioner in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies. Hailing from northern New Jersey, she has a rich history of teaching dance at many locales including Potsdam College of New York, University of Oregon, Michigan State University, Happendance School, and Wayne State University. Returning to Oregon to retire in fall of 2015, Sherrie now has a courtesy professor of dance appointment at the University of Oregon. She is passionate about teaching movement practices, including creative dance and improvisation, modern and contemporary dance practices, somatic practices, and skills fordance making.
Ann Cole
Eugene, OR
Joined 2020
In Eugene, Ann has worked in nonprofits for over 20 years as a board member and completed a one year nonprofit management course from Lane Community College in 2011. She often serves when a transition is underway and has worked with Village School and Tamarack Aquatic Center through transitions that required reorganization and role clarifications.
Currently, she serves as a community member on the 4j Equity Advisory Committee to the Superintendent.
Ann is trained as a Dance/ Movement Therapist that brings together the fields of dance and psychology. She is a dancer and licensed professional counselor. Her work integrates the mind and the body through movement and touch. Three years ago, she became a licensed massage therapist. Massage therapy and her ongoing training in Body Mind Centering have deepened her work with the body.
She has taught dance/ movement therapy to graduate students at Marylhurst College in Lake Oswego and served as a Dance therapy supervisor to graduate students at Antioch University in Keene, NH.
Ann Musgrove
Eugene, OR
Joined 2019
Ann was born in England and finished her education in Western Australia. After moving to the United States she began her career as a computer programmer in San Francisco. Ann moved to Eugene in 1973 as a faculty wife at the UO. Her career at the UO spanned 18 years before retirement as a Director for Development with the Central Development office.
Upon retirement she and husband Wayne Musgrove, retired president of Musgrove Family Mortuaries, made a gift to create a vocal scholarship at the School of Music. Thanks to friends and colleagues the gift became an endowment.
Ann has two children. Son, Christopher Lamon, graduated from the UO in 1992 with a degree in Political Science and is executive with Kimberly Clark. Daughter resides in Washington state.
Ann is a strong champion for the SOM opera program and attends the performances of her scholarship students whenever possible. She is also most interested in the progress of opera in Eugene having attended the first Eugene Opera performance in 1973 and later serving on the Eugene Opera Board of Directors.
Natalie Guistina Newlove
Eugene, OR
Joined 2012
Natalie Newlove was born and raised in Eugene. She attended summer school at University of Oregon in 1968, and Graduated from Lake Erie College in Ohio. She says she attended Lake Erie to explore and experience other parts of the country. Natalie had a career in banking in San Diego County until birth of her son in 1986. After that she devoted her time to community volunteering.
Natalie became involved with School of Music and Dance after the death of aunt, Euphemea Laraway Culp, who loved music and made a bequest to the school at her death in 2002.
She is a strong supporter of the SOMD, JSMA and the library.
Doris Sjolund, '70
Medford, OR
Joined 2015
Doris received a BA in music education in 1963 with a major in clarinet from the University of Northern Iowa. She earned her MM degree from the UO in 1969, with most classes taken at the UO German Center for Music Education.
Doris is a retired music teacher, living in Medford, Oregon. She taught music in Iowa, Louisiana, and Oregon. Doris taught high school choral, woodwind band programs, college music education for elementary teachers, and elementary music. She served as treasurer for OMEA and children's chorus board representation for Oregon ACDA.
Doris has said she is proud to have started the Rogue Valley Children's Chorus in 1983. This auditioned chorus has now expanded to four choruses, 3-12 graders, and is called the Rogue Valley Youth Choruses program.
In the community Doris volunteers with the Southern Oregon Historical Society in the research library and the guild, is a SMART reader, is a member and secretary of the Colony Club.
She resides in Medford with her husband, Lynn, who was honored as outstanding grad of SOMD and as distinguished alumnus in 2014.
Lavinia Touchton
Mercer Island, WA
Joined 2022
Lavinia is originally from Tampa, FL, but moved to the Seattle area 27 years ago. She has a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Virginia and a Masters of Liberal Arts in Psychology from Harvard University. Lavinia’s son, Chris, is currently in his first year at the School of Music and Dance. Lavinia’s partner, Jeff Adberg (U of O Graduate School of Architecture, 1989) and she divide their time between Mercer Island and nearby Vashon Island, where they are building a home.
Lavinia’s professional background primarily has included non-profit volunteer and Board of Director experience, particularly in areas of middle and secondary independent education and parent peer support, with a focus on board development, fund development, and capital giving. In addition, Lavinia served for eleven years on the National Selection Committee of a foundation-supported, merit-based scholarship at the University of Virginia, and for the past eight years she has chaired the Seattle Regional Selection Committee for that scholarship.