Mohn Wins Louise Loy Hunter Award

Dr. Terry Mohn, professor of music and chair of the Music Department, is this year's recipient of the Louise Loy Hunter Award, bestowed annually upon a faculty member for cumulative contributions in teaching, service and scholarship.  It is the highest official honor that can be bestowed on a faculty member at The University of Tampa. Its mark of distinction from other awards and ceremonies is that the recipient is determined by prior recipients of the award.

Mohn began his career as an elementary school teacher.  Prior to beginning graduate work in his field, he was a member of the Fifth U.S. Army Band at Fort Sheridan, IL.  An accomplished musician and composer, he is a frequent performer in the Tampa Bay area with the Bay Area Saxophone Quartet. He became inextricably linked to electronic music when his college music fraternity sold its fraternity house and used part of the proceeds to set up an electronic music lab.  They equipped it with one of the first Moog synthesizers ever constructed.

Named Hillsborough County's Music Educator of the Year in 1992, Mohn has distinguished himself in the classroom, teaching music theory, recording and electronic music, and audio in media.  He has received plentiful recognition, including the Teaching Excellence Award from UT’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1993-94, and has held several administrative assignments since first appointed as a faculty member in 1976.

Mohn earned his bachelor’s degree at Bradley University in 1968, his master’s degree at the University of Illinois in 1974, and his doctorate in music at Illinois in 1976.

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