Madeline Ingram

INGRAM, Madeline Elaine (née Dean).  b. Roachdale, Indiana, 7 May 1901; d. Lynchburg, Virginia, 11 January 1991. Ingram was a distinguished teacher, author, and church musician whose pedagogy of children’s choirs focused on preparing choristers to participate fully in worship, especially by teaching the churches’ heritage of congregational song from age-level and denominational hymnals. She led workshops and junior choir festivals in twenty states. Madeline’s father, William R. Dean (1870-1926), was a church choir director in Roachdale, Indiana, and mother Bessie (née Job, 1876-1961) initiated her piano studies at the age of eight with an instructor at DePauw University in near-by...