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Greenwood elected president of Singing Hoosiers Alumni Council
May 11, 2005
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Charles H. Greenwood, assistant dean of the School of Extended Education and associate professor of continuing education at Ball State University, has been named president of the Singing Hoosiers Alumni Council, an affiliate group of the Indiana University Alumni Association.
The council serves alumni of the Singing Hoosiers, one of the nation's top collegiate show choirs. The Singing Hoosiers are based at Indiana University Bloomington.
Greenwood was elected by unanimous vote during the Singing Hoosiers Alumni Council's annual board meeting on April 3, 2005. He is the sixth president in the group's history. Greenwood's term will run through 2010.
A member of the Singing Hoosiers while an undergraduate student at IU from 1952 to 1954, Greenwood earned a bachelor's degree in music from Ball State University in 1956 and a master's degree in education from Ball State in 1961. He earned a doctorate in higher education from Indiana University in 1972. He served as second vice president of the Singing Hoosiers Alumni Council from 1995 to 2000 and was awarded the Singing Hoosiers Distinguished Alumni Award in 2001. At the Singing Hoosiers' 55th-anniversary celebration in April 2005, Greenwood was honored as a 50-year alumnus of the show choir.
Greenwood lives in Muncie, Ind., with his wife, Theresa M. Greenwood.
The Indiana University Alumni Association serves the university and its more than 466,000 living graduates through programs, services, and communications. One of the nation's largest alumni organizations, the IUAA strives daily to connect alumni and serve IU. For more information, visit www.alumni.indiana.edu or call (800) 824-3044.