1998

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recently choRD tD judge a compe– titionfor the.Aw.na MusicTeach– ers Associatioa. Wilkinson has served as a accompanist for numer– ous recitals, cboirs, and various re– ceptions. She bas been the pianist for Poplar Springs Drive Method– ist Church for oisbt years and has served as pit ICCOlllpanist for Me– ridian LittleTbeaterproductions for almost four yean. .. A graduate ofForest High School , Wilkinson holds bachelor's and master's degrees in music education from Mississippi State University. She has completed additional course work at ECCC and the Uni– versity of Southern Mississippi. She is married to Keith Wilkinson, a simulator/flight instructor at the Naval Air Station in ·Meridian . They have a daughter, Kirstin Lee, age four.

Leesa Lee Wilkinson 1998 Academic Instructor of the Y P!lr __

Wilkinson, keyboard instructor, be– gan teaching at the College in 1985 after having taught public school music in theNewton County school system for two years. She was em– ployed at East Central for eight years before moving to Conroe, Texas, where she taught fifth and sixth grade music at Creighton In– termediate School. She and her family returned to Mississippi in · 1996 and shewas rehired at the Col– lege. In addition to hermost recenthonor • Wilkinson was also selected for the ' annual Lampii&Jtter program in 1997, which recognizes the state's outstanding community and junior college instructors. She was also

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