Lois Vipond Case
Lois Case is Director of the Paulin Center for the Creative Arts, Pacific Union College preparatory division, a position she has held since it was founded in 1984. She attended Monterey Bay Academy where she met Del Case. She completed a B.A. in music in 1963 at Southern Missionary College, now Southern Adventist University, when he taught there from 1960 to 1964. She completed an M.A. in piano performance at PUC in 1969.
She has studied piano with Perry Beach, Yvonne Caro Howard, and Morris Taylor, and harpsichord with Alice Ehlers, Kathy McIntosh, and John Hamilton. Case has also attended many master classes in harpsichord and Baroque performance studies in the U.S. and Europe under such renowned teachers as Kenneth Gilbert, Amsterdam; Suzanna Rusikova, Prague; and Gustav Leonhardt.
She is a frequent performer and has concertized throughout California. A certified Kodaly teacher, Case also teaches music education classes, piano, piano pedagogy, and harpsichord in the college program.
She and her husband, Del, have been at PUC since 1964, longer than any other music teacher since the school's beginning. They both enjoy skiing and traveling and have traveled to Europe twelve times, most recently spending two weeks in Spain in March 2004.
The Cases will retire to Southern California to be near their two daughters, Tonya and Lorie, both graduates of PUC. They will be residing in a home located at a 3,000 foot elevation in the San Bernardino Mountains.
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Source: interview, 2005