Louis G. Wersen

MENC President: 1966-1968

Born:

Died:

Degrees:

Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts: Washington State University

Graduate work: University of California and Teachers College, Columbia

University

Teaching Employment:

Director of Music Education, Philadelphia

Taught in Aberdeen and Tacoma WA

Significant Publications:

Louis Wersen is co-author of a series of elementary and junior high school textbooks.

_______. The challenge of change, Music Educators Journal 53, No. 9 (May 1967):

38-41.

_______. The grand plan, Music Educators Journal 53, No. 2 (October 1966): 34-37,

120-21.

_______. The pros can help your orchestra. Music Educators Journal 48, No. 1

(September-October 1961): 54-55.

_______. Tacoma’s victory rally. Music Educators Journal 29, No. 6 (May-June 1943):

22-24.

_______. Tanglewood: A beginning. Music Educators Journal 55, No. 1(September

1968): 44-45.

Professional Accomplishments:

President of National High School Orchestra Association

Member of the MENC Board of Directors, 1941-1948

MENC Finance Committee, 1958-1964

Advisory Board Member to State Department

ASCAP

Julliard Repertory Project

Pressor Foundation

Personal Biography:

Notable Quotes:

“We have said that music exists because people need music. All people do not ‘need’ music in the same way, and the exact nature and origin of this ‘need’ is obscure. There can be no doubt, however, that the way in which man ‘needs’ music is closely related to the way in which he sees himself as an individual.”

Louis G. Wersen

President’s speech at the six division MENC Conference, 1967