Judy Britts brings over 30 years of experience teaching classroom music, conducting elementary, middle school, and high school choirs and conducting church choirs. Currently on faculty at California State University, Sacramento, Mrs. Britts teaches those studying to be elementary teachers on how to use music in their classroom. Her vast experience includes six years with the Sacramento Children’s Chorus as the director of training choirs, beginning and intermediate levels. Currently, MrsBritts is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Northern California Children’s Chorus in a community north of Sacramento.

Ms. Britts received her Bachelor of Arts in music from San Jose State University where she studied both choral conducting and piano performance. She earned her Masters of Arts in Education at California State University, Sacramento. Her thesis, “Keep Dancing on the Inside” is a study of the affects that the other arts (visual, dance, and theater) can have in a choral rehearsal and performance.

Now in her second round as a member of the national board of directors, Mrs. Britts has served on the boards of two chapters and has led workshops, festivals and camps, around the country.

Ms. Britts brings a passion for both music and for children to everything she does. Her desire is to unlock the world of music for children to experience, understand and enjoy. Her approach is to allow the children to experience music from every style, genre, and culture while giving them the foundation of pure and excellent singing suitable for the child’s voice.

Heather Potter joined the Choristers Guild Board of Directors in November 2008. She is the Associate Conductor of the Charlotte Children's Choir and conductor of its Lyric Choir. She also serves as the Director of Youth and Children's Music at First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Gastonia, North Carolina. As an active clinician, Dr. Potter frequently conducts treble ensembles for music conferences and festival choirs and presents children's choir training workshops. She serves on the advisory board for the Choristers Guild Institute and as the Repertoire and Standards Chair for Children's Choir for North Carolina American Choral Directors Association (ACDA). She has completed Level III in the Choral Music Experience certification course and holds the Choristers Guild Children's Choir Leadership certification.

Heather lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband, Kenney, and their daughter, Syl.

Rev. Randall Engle, PhD, is the Sr. Pastor of the North Hills Christian Reformed Church of Troy, Michigan.

After graduating from Calvin College and Seminary, he was the first-ever ordained minister of Music in the Christian Reformed Church, a position he held at the Calvary Christian Reformed Church of Bloomington, MN.  After moving to Michigan he received a Ph.D. from Oxford where he researched the organ controversy in the Netherlands during the Reformation.  His current project is a book entitled Sound Theology, an examination of protestant conceptions of sound, and how sound (instrumental, choral, spoken) is best be used, or not used, in worship.  His book Serving in Church Music Ministry (Zondervan) is now in its third printing.

Engle is current President of the Choristers Guild and a trustee of Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI).  He is married to Kathryn Poel, herself a music educator and past director of the Junior Singers of the NorthfieldYouth Choirs.  He resides in Troy, Michigan with his wife, two children and miniature dachshund Milly.

Andrew Masetti was born in New York City and was raised in Yonkers and White Plains, NY. After receiving his B.A. cum laude with honors in music from Williams College, he joined General Electric's Financial Management Program in Schenectady, New York. During a fifteen year career with General Electric, Andy was a Corporate Auditor and held financial management positions in GE's power generation services, turbine, and aerospace businesses and was a consultant for government compliance programs. Subsequent to the sale of GE Aerospace to Martin Marietta, Andy joined Diagnostek Inc., a pharmacy benefit manager, as their Chief Financial Officer. He has been CFO of Harte Hanks Response Management business, VP-Finance and Principal Accounting Officer for Sun Healthcare Group, a leading senior care and ancillary services provider, CFO of Marriott Senior Living Services, and CFO of ASI Health, a healthcare technology and business processing company.  Andy is currently CFO, Treasurer, and acting Chief Information Officer for Remedi SeniorCare, a leading provider of pharmacy services to nursing homes and assisted living communities.  Andy is a member of the Financial Executives International, the Maryland Technology Council, and is a board member of the MidAtlantic Business Group on Health.

Andy and his wife, Janet, have two children, Katie and Lizzy. Janet is a financial executive with The Defiant Requiem Foundation. Andy is an avid (and improving) runner, enjoys gardening, and is an associate class agent for his Williams College class as well as participates on the development committee for his church.

Currently a free-lance writer living in Hartwell, GA, with her husband, a retired university professor and administrator, Sara has been active in church music life since she was a teen-ager.  A soloist and choir member, Sara has on several occasions filled in as an interim choir director and still substitutes for the minister of music.

Introduced to handbells in the mid-60’s, Sara has been a ringer and/or director ever since, directing in churches in Athens, Macon, and Hartwell GA. A long-time member of AGEHR (American Guild of English Handbell Ringers), Sara served on the board of Area IV of AGEHR and led several workshops at area meetings. Bell choirs included a four-in-hand ensemble, several ladies’ groups and several mixed groups. Solo ringing has also been a part of Sara’s bell experiences.

Sara wrote several dramas for use in conjunction with the choir of First Baptist Church of Hartwell’s Christmas performances, some of which are available on www.dramashare.com. She was also commissioned to write the play for Hart County’s sesquicentennial which was performed by the local theater.

Other activities include serving on the board of Baptist Center for Ethics (www.ethicsdaily.com), a term on the Coordinating Council of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF), former moderator of CBF of Georgia, former board member of Touching Taliaferro with Love (a ministry to a poor, rural county in Georgia). She also co-teaches a couples’ Sunday School class.

Sara’s meditations are available at www.liftyourheart.com

Teri Larson received her undergraduate degrees from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota where she studied under Dr. Kenneth Jennings, former director of the St. Olaf Choir, Robert Scholz and Alice T. Larsen.  She received her Masters in Choral Conducting and Literature from Saint Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, under the direction of Stephen Fuller.  Ms. Larson has served as interim conductor of the St. John's University Chamber Choir in Collegeville, the Campus Singers at the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota where she led their concert tour to England and Wales in January 2000, and is a former director of the Concert Choir at Saint Cloud State University.  Ms. Larson served three years as an adjunct conductor for the College of Saint Benedict Women’s Choir at the College of Saint Benedict. She is currently serving her sixteenth year as Choral Director and Director of Music at the Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  

Under Ms. Larson’s direction The Basilica Cathedral Choir has grown to over ninety members, published three compact disc recordings, embarked on a concert tour of Italy and Austria (1999) and the West Coast (2009), and been selected to perform at both local and national ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) conventions.  

Ms. Larson is the founder of three children’s choirs at the Basilica, and directs a semi-professional Schola Cantorum.  The Basilica Cathedral Choir, along with the Cathedral Choristers, joined forces with the Minnesota Orchestra for a repeat performance of  “To Be Certain of the Dawn,” (Stephen Paulus and Michael Dennis Browne) under the direction of OsmoVänskä which culminated in a professional recording on the BIS label, released in February of 2009.
Ms. Larson has served as contest adjudicator, festival chorus director at numerous choral festivals, and is a member of ACDA, the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, Choristers Guild, the American Federation of Pueri Cantores and the Conference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians. She has served as the Repertoire and Standards Chair for Worship in the Minnesota Central Division Chapter of ACDA, served a three year tenure as the Twin Cities Chapter President of Choristers Guild. She currently is proud to serve on the National Board of Directors for Choristers Guild.  In October of 2009 she was inducted in the Arts and Activities Hall of Fame at Thomas Jefferson High School in Bloomington, MN and in April of 2010,  received the 2010 Lake Conference Achievement Award for Fine Arts. She resides in Maple Grove, Minnesota with her husband, Don Krubsack and children, Jeff and Ellan.

Oscar C. Page became the 14th president of Austin College July 1, 1994 and served until June 30, 2009.  President Page, an historian, received his B.A. from Western Kentucky University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kentucky.

As President Emeritus, Dr. Page assisted in the presidential transition by serving as Interim Vice President for Institutional Advancement in 2009-2010.  He continues to serve the new president as an advisor and consultant in the areas of governance and development.  He was named by the president of Rollins College as a Presidential Fellow at the Winter Park Institute during the 2010-2011 year.  Following his twenty-two years as a university or college president, he is serving as a consultant with AGB Search and as a mentor to new presidents for the NCAA.   

President Page has served on the boards of directors of the Association of Texas Colleges and Universities (past president) and the Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas (past board chair), as well as on the Council of Presidents of the Alliance for Higher Education (past chair) and on the Appeals Committee of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. He has served two terms on the boards of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities, and one term on the board of the Institute for the International Education of Students.  He served as president of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Commission.  He has chaired the Criteria and Review Committee as a member of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and chaired over thirty-five special or reaffirmation committees for the Commission on Colleges.

In addition, Dr. Page has served on several national commissions, including the Presidents’ Commission and the Division III Management Council for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, as well as the American Council on Education’s Commission on Women in Higher Education.  He received the Chief Executive Officer Leadership Award in April 2006 from District IV of CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) for his leadership in successfully completing a $120 million comprehensive campaign at Austin College.

Throughout his career, President Page has been an active leader in community, church, and civic affairs.  He has served as Chamber of Commerce president in two cities, Rotary president in one, chairman of a hospital board, and honorary chair of Big Brothers/Big Sisters. He has served on the boards of directors of the United Way, Junior Achievement of Grayson County, and the March of Dimes. Currently, he is serving on the Board of Choristers Guild which is a national non-profit organization with the goal of nurturing the spiritual growth of children and youth through music.

Before filling the presidency at Austin College, Dr. Page served for six years as the president of Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and spent ten years at Lander College in South Carolina, where he was provost and vice president for academic affairs and was appointed as acting president for a term.  President Page also served as dean of the college at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia (1971 - 1978) and was a member of the history faculties of the Universities of Georgia (1967 – 1971) and Western Kentucky (1964).

His wife, Anna Laura, holds a master of music theory degree from the University of Kentucky and is a professional musician who has published numerous choral, keyboard, and handbell compositions.  Mrs. Page is an accomplished pianist and organist.

Michael Jothen is Professor of Music emeritus, Towson University, Towson, Maryland and emeritus director of the Senior Choir, St. Michael Lutheran Church, Baltimore. He has served Choristers Guild in the past as board member, Board President, and Chair of Anniversary Celebrations.  He has assisted church musicians as a clinician, consultant, or conductor in more than forty(40) states, Canada and Europe. In addition to numerous published choral compositions he has coauthored three P-8 basal textbook series (1987, 1995, 2005/08) published by McGraw-Hill, was a lead author of the McGraw-Hill-Glencoe/Hal Leonard series Experiencing Choral Music (2005), and author of Hal Leonard’s Master Strategies for Choir (2007). A member of the senior choir of St. John’s Lutheran Church, he is also a member of the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) national music writing team initiated in fall 2011. Jothen earned a B.A. from St. Olaf College, M. A. from Case-Western Reserve University, and Ph. D. from The Ohio State University.

Terry Goolsby is Senior Vice President for Resource Services, Incorporated-the largest capital stewardship company in the US.  He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Southern Illinois University with Bachelor’s Degrees in Music and Business Administration.  His Master’s Degrees are in Church Music and Religious Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth.  Terry began playing the organ in 6^th grade and his been Organist Choirmaster/Director of Music in churches in Illinois, Virginia and Texas.  His experience includes leading multi-faceted/multi-staff music programs.  Between 1990 and 2000, Terry was the Minister of Music at First Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia. Recently Terry served as the interim director of music at Grace Presbyterian Church, Plano, Texas.  His responsibilities include directing the 60 voice Sanctuary Choir and the 95 voice youth choir (Exultation). He has been the guest conductor at numerous choral and handbell festivals and workshops throughout the United States. He has served on the board of directors for Choristers Guild and the Baptist World Alliance. Choirs under his direction have sung at the White House, Duke Chapel, Washington National Cathedral, and cathedrals throughout Great Britain and Europe.

The Rev. Joann Saylors works with congregations in transition as the Canon for Deployment and Congregational Development in the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.  She has also served as a parish priest in the Diocese of Dallas.  Before following God’s call into ordained ministry, she worked as a CPA and financial systems project manager, which included serving as the Outside Controller for Choristers Guild for nearly nine years.  Joann attended the University of Texas at Austin for her undergraduate work, graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in the Plan II liberal arts honors program and a Bachelor of Business Administration in honors finance and accounting.  She received her Masters of Divinity from the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest, also in Austin.  She and her husband Rick live in San Antonio, where they enjoy exploring the city’s cultural and culinary treasures.