Maestros of Ministry: Their Legacy in the Department of Music and Worship

x i v  |  MAESTROS of MINI STRY administrative, and creative skills put him in this position at just the right time to steer the 1996 move of the Department into its current home in the newly constructed Dixon Ministry Center. Clevenger oversaw much of the construction, making numerous forward-thinking and wise decisions that have positively impacted the faculty and student experience until today. Into the twenty-first century, Dr. Steven Winteregg joined the faculty as Department Chair in 2004, upon the vacancy created by Dr. Clevenger’s return to full-time teaching. He stepped down from Department Chair in 2007, but remained connected to and influential on the Department first as Dean of the School of Humanities and then as Vice President of the College of Arts and Sciences. His administrative skills and decisions were critical at another period of Department growth, as the growing new Worship major gained momentum, rising quickly to take its place beside the other traditional music degrees both in its growing student numbers and in the Department’s title. The biographies that follow give more details of the specific contributions of these maestros. More than that, however, they emphasize their ministry to the Lord and to the Department. The ministry of these maestros is the aim of this humble publication. Soli Deo gloria.