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Anne Harlan Advisory Board Liasion Anne Harlan began playing trumpet when she was nine years old in the Mangum, Oklahoma elementary school band. That same year, she began transposing piano music and arranging it for herself and her two best friends to play as a saxophone, clarinet and trumpet trio. She majored in music for two years at West Texas State University, later completing her B.A. in organizational psychology at the University of Houston. After receiving her M.A. and Ph.D. in organizational psychology from Ohio State University, she took a position on the faculty of Harvard Business School where she taught in the MBA and doctoral programs, conducted research, and consulted with numerous Fortune 500 companies. While at Harvard, she met and married her husband, Jay Nichols, and also rediscovered her love of music. She played first chair in the Lexington Bicentennial Band and the Concord Band, solo trumpet in the “big band,” the Moonlighters and was in pit orchestras for various musical productions. She merged her work with another passion, aviation, when she took a position with the Federal Aviation Administration. Anne is a commercial, instrument and multi-engine rated pilot. Anne moved to southern New Jersey in 1995 when she became the Deputy Director and later the Director of the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center (formerly NAFEC), responsible for much of the FAA’s aviation research and development activities and the 5000 acre complex housing not only FAA but also the NJ Air National Guard, Coast Guard, the Atlantic City International Airport, and Homeland Security. In 1997, she discovered and joined the South Jersey Area Wind Ensemble and has been an active member of the group ever since. Anne retired from FAA in 2006, leaving more time to pursue her love of music. In addition to being the Director of Publicity, she is also the SJAWE liaison to the Board of Advisors and serves on several other committees and boards in the area. Anne and her husband, Jay, reside in Egg Harbor Township.
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Ambrose O'Donnell, Jr.
Cultural & Heritage Commission Grant Chair
Ambrose C. O'Donnell was born and raised in a small town in the coal regions of Eastern Pennsylvania. He joined the Summit Hill High School band in his sophomore year, where he played Sousaphone. Two years later in his senior year he successfully auditioned for and was appointed to the first chair in the Pennsylvania Eastern District Concert Band. That same year he won the first chair position in the All-State Concert Band. In addition he was the only Sousaphone in the PA Eastern District and All-State Orchestras.
After graduation Mr. O'Donnell enlisted in the United States Navy and was sent to the Navy School of Music in Washington, DC (Little Creek, VA). After four years as a Navy musician, where he also learned to play string bass, he matriculated at Penn State University. For his last three years he played second chair Sousaphone in the Penn State Concert Blue Band. After coming to South Jersey in 1961, he played electric bass in a small combo in the general area of Atlantic City for about 15 years. However for a little over 36 years after his graduation from Penn State, he hadn't had the opportunity to play the bass horn (tuba). Around the year 2000 he joined the Atlantic Pops Band, where he serves as the Chairman of their Board of Directors. Shortly thereafter he joined the South Jersey Area Wind Ensemble, where he plays tuba and fills the post of General Business Manager.
Jeff Seals
Professional Development Chair
Carolyn Gutierrez
Grant Research Chairperson
Carolyn Gutierrez has been a bassoonist with the South Jersey Area Wind Ensemble since 1997. She began studying bassoon at the behest of her father who conducted the West Oak Lane Symphony, an amateur orchestra in Philadelphia in need of a bassoon player. After graduating from Cardinal Dougherty High School in Philadelphia, she attended Temple University as a music major. She studied privately with Philadelphia Orchestra bassoonist and teacher, Ferdinand Del Negro. Early marriage and motherhood interrupted her first college career but she continued to play bassoon. In the past she has performed with the Ridgewood Symphony, Ridgewood, NJ, the Atlantic Community Orchestra, and the Ocean City Pops, Ocean City, N.J.. She is a graduate of Rutgers University, New Brunswick and Rutgers University, Camden where she earned masters degrees in Library Science and American History respectively. She has been a librarian at the Richard Stockton College of NJ, Pomona, NJ for nearly 20 years. She has a daughter, Lisa and a grandson, Bobby, who reside in Vernon, NJ.