DID YOU KNOW?
Tacoma’s story spans more than two centuries from the time Captain George Vancouver anchored off Tacoma’s north shore in 1792.
In 1870, Tacoma’s natural deep-water port became an attraction that the Northern Pacific Railroad couldn’t pass up, when it made Tacoma a stop on its transcontinental line.
Old Tacoma and New Tacoma merged in 1884 and incorporated as Tacoma. By 1890, the population reached 36,000 people.
Tacoma is home to the Port of Tacoma, the seventh-largest container port in the United States, and it is within 20 miles of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and 36 miles of the city of Seattle.
Judy Herrington,
Lower School Music
Judy Herrington teaches music in the Lower School. She is committed to the teaching of the artistic experience and process for young people.
“A moment I will always remember was in last year’s first grade class performance of the song ‘Walking in the Snow,’” says Herrington. “After the piano interlude, I looked up to see a little girl blinking. She said with wonder, ‘I have water in my eyes.’ She was baffled as to why she had tears in her eyes but she was very aware of being deeply touched by the power of music. It is inspiring to be part of an artistic experience for such a young child.”
“While teaching my classes of young students I am very aware of the exciting learning opportunities they will have as they move through the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools. I see amazing potential, talent and energy, and I know these children will be inspired by the experiences they have and will have at Charles Wright.”
Herrington completed her undergraduate degree in music at the University of Oregon and her masters in teaching music at Lewis and Clark College. She joined the Charles Wright faculty in 1975. In 1991, she received the CWA Parent Association’s Inspirational Faculty Award.
Herrington is highly regarded as a guest conductor and as a workshop and choral clinician. In 1991, she founded the Tacoma Youth Chorus, a select, auditioned youth choir program. Well known through the Puget Sound area, TYC now serves over 240 musically gifted boys and girls, ages seven through eighteen. In 2008, Herrington will lead the TYC Chorale on a performance tour of Eastern Europe.
Herrington is a past-president of the Washington-American Choral Directors Association. She has conducted all-state honor choirs and festivals in Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Montana, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Alaska and Tokyo. She was recently selected as the guest conductor for the 2008 Western American Choral Directors Association Junior High Honor Choir, a prestigious national recognition. She has published choral compositions and arrangements, and has co-authored choral teaching texts. She also edits a choral series.
“A moment I will always remember was in last year’s first grade class performance of the song ‘Walking in the Snow,’” says Herrington. “After the piano interlude, I looked up to see a little girl blinking. She said with wonder, ‘I have water in my eyes.’ She was baffled as to why she had tears in her eyes but she was very aware of being deeply touched by the power of music. It is inspiring to be part of an artistic experience for such a young child.”
“While teaching my classes of young students I am very aware of the exciting learning opportunities they will have as they move through the Lower, Middle and Upper Schools. I see amazing potential, talent and energy, and I know these children will be inspired by the experiences they have and will have at Charles Wright.”
Herrington completed her undergraduate degree in music at the University of Oregon and her masters in teaching music at Lewis and Clark College. She joined the Charles Wright faculty in 1975. In 1991, she received the CWA Parent Association’s Inspirational Faculty Award.
Herrington is highly regarded as a guest conductor and as a workshop and choral clinician. In 1991, she founded the Tacoma Youth Chorus, a select, auditioned youth choir program. Well known through the Puget Sound area, TYC now serves over 240 musically gifted boys and girls, ages seven through eighteen. In 2008, Herrington will lead the TYC Chorale on a performance tour of Eastern Europe.
Herrington is a past-president of the Washington-American Choral Directors Association. She has conducted all-state honor choirs and festivals in Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Montana, Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Alaska and Tokyo. She was recently selected as the guest conductor for the 2008 Western American Choral Directors Association Junior High Honor Choir, a prestigious national recognition. She has published choral compositions and arrangements, and has co-authored choral teaching texts. She also edits a choral series.
