Campus Feature
A New Voice
Beth Tibbs Has High Hopes
for Music at SHU
By Michelle Blackerby—Student Writer
I
n a large, white room filled with mementos
of the retired faculty member who preceded
her, Elizabeth Tibbs, Ph.D., assesses her new
surroundings. Tibbs, the new full-time music
faculty member at Siena Heights University,
is working to remake not only her office, but
SHU’s music program as well.
The Lenawee County native has had ties with
Siena Heights since her childhood. She was
trained on piano by now-retired Sister Magdalena Ezoe ’55, a longtime Siena Heights faculty
member, and had been neighbors with previous
Siena Heights art faculty member, the late
Father David Van Horn.
Most recently, Tibbs comes to SHU from
Arizona Western College, where she taught
piano, voice, music history and the choirs as a
professor of music. While teaching in Arizona,
Tibbs created a non-profit organization called
the Yuma Youth Choir.
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Reflections Winter ’12