Professional Awards

CMEA/ACME celebrates outstanding work by Canadian music educators. Our professional awards include the following:

Honourary Life Member

• Recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to music education.
• Honourary Life Membership Award Nomination (PDF file)

Jubilate Award of Merit

• This award may be granted to an individual, a group of people, an industry, foundation, institution, or other organization in recognition for a significant contribution to music education in Canada.
• Jubilate Award of Merit (PDF file)

Builders Award

• The Builders Awards seek to recognize those who advance music education in any Canadian province, through building community or establishing significant collaborative efforts. There are two awards: CMEA/Acme Builders Award and the CMEA/Acme Builders Award for Newer Teachers.
• Builders Award Nomination Form (PDF file)

Executive Award Recipients 

• Alan Janzen, Secretary-Treasurer (Presented at MMEA, 1991)
• Ninette Babineau, Member-at-Large (Presented by NSMEA, 1991)
• Nancy Vogan, Member-at-Large (Presented by NBMEA, 1991)
• Paul Maynard, Past President (Presented by BCMEA, 1992)
• Joan Therens, Past President (Presented by CMEA, Conference 1993)
• Pat Stefanchuk, Secretary-Treasurer (Presented by MMEA, 1995)
• Rodger Beatty, Past President ((Presented by CMEA, Conference 1997)
• Marjorie Fanjoy, Member-at-Large (Presented by NSMEA, 1997)
• Sharon Fitzsimmons, Member-at-Large (Presented by OMEA, 1999)
• Eric Favaro, Past President (Presented by NSMEA, 2000)
• Brian Roberts, Journal Editor (Presented by CMEA) PDF file
• Debbie McPherson, Past President
• Barbara Graham, Past President (Presented by MMEA, 2006)
• Cathy Lynn Yorke-Slader (Presented by OMEA, 2007)
• Gregg Bereznick (2007)
• Allan Anderson (2009)
• Mary Dinn (2011)
• Ed Wasiak (2013)
  (Executive Award discontinued 2018)

Honourary Life Member Recipients 

• Dr. Catherine Allison (d.1986)
• Mrs. Leslie Bell (voted in 1962 after death of her husband)
• Kenneth Bray (presented at OMEA Conference ’86) (d.1999)
• Jean Broadfoot (presented in Halifax CMEA/ACEM Conference ’89) Nomination (PDF file)
• Beth Douglas (d.1987)
• Richard Edmunds (presented at CMEA/ACEM Conference ’71)
• Verla Jean Forsyth (presented at CMEA/ACEM Conference ’91) Nomination (PDF file)
• Christopher Gledhill (d.1987)
• Ada S. Hamilton
• Wallace Laughton (d. 2001)
• Vanett Lawlor, MENC Executive Director (deceased)
• Sir Ernest MacMillan (d. 1999)
• Dr. Irene MacQuillan Murphy (presented Conf. 1987) (d.1991)
• Gifford Mitchell (presented at CMEA/ACEM Conference ’83)
• Dr. Elizabeth Murray (presented at CMEA/ACEM Conference ’91) (d.1998) Presentation (PDF file)
• Read more about Elizabeth Murray in Carol Harris’ book, A Sense of Themselves: Elizabeth Murray’s Leadership in School and Community  (Fernwood Publishing, 1998)
• Dr. Wilfred Pelletier (deceased)
• Rev. Sister Mary Agnes Sesk (presented at CMEA/ACEM Conference ’87)
• Dr. Lloyd Slind
• Dr. Paul Murray (presented at CMEA-KSC-NSMEA-KSNS Conference ’97)
• Joan Therens (presented at SMEA Conference 1999)
• Senator Tommy Banks (presented at the NSMEA conference, 2001)
• George Bishop (presented at the OMEA conference, 2001)
• Dr. Brian Roberts (presented at the NF/LAB conference, 2001)
• Dennis Tupman (presented at the 2003 BCMEA Conference) Presentation (PDF file)
• Rodger Beatty (presented at the 2002 OMEA Conference) Presentation (PDF file)
• Ninette Babineau (presented at the 2002 NSMEA Conference) Presentation (PDF file)
• Chalmers Doane
• Dr. Betty Hanley (presented by Allan Anderson at the 2007 CMEA/ACME AGM in Baddeck, NS) Photo

Jubilate Award of Merit Recipients

• Dr. Helen Creighton first recipient (presented at CMEA/ACEM Conf.’89) (d.1989)
• Dr. Sandra Davies (presented at Conf. ’91, Vancouver)
• Dr. Paul Freeman (presented at BCMEA Conf. ’90 in Vancouver)
• Prof. Donald A. McKellar (presented at CMEA/ACEM Conf. ’91, Vancouver)
• Kaye Pottie (presented at CMEA/ACEM Conf. ’93, Waterloo)
• Dr. Patricia Shand (presented at CMEA/ACEM Conf. ’93, Waterloo)
• Dr. Nancy Vogan (presented at CMEA/ACEMConf.’93, Waterloo)
• George Bishop (presented at OMEA-CMEA Accent ’94, London)
• Sr. Blanche Gillis (presented at OMEA-CMEA Accent ’94, London)
• M. Wilfred Harvey (presented at OMEA-CMEA Accent ’94, London)
• Howard Saunders, Britannia Printers (presented at OMEA Conference’97)
• Dr. Diana Brault (presented at OMEA Conference ’96)
• Dr. Paul Green
• Lois Birkenshaw-Fleming (presented at the OMEA conference, 2001)
• Jan Wicha (presented at the NSMEA conference, 2001)
• Sr. Rita Clare (presented at the 2002 NSMEA Conference)
• Dr. Betty Hanley (presented by Gregg Bereznick at the 2004 BCMEA conference)
• Peter Stigings (presented by David Ennis at the 2006 BCMEA Conference)
  Dennis Tupman (presented by Alan Anderson at the 2006 BCMEA Conference)
• Donna Rhodenizer (2011)

Builders Award Recipients