About Me

I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and started playing the cello in 4th grade. When I went to church camp after 8th grade, I wrote a letter to myself saying how I hoped to someday have an orchestra of my own. I went to Bethany College on a cello scholarship and I couldn’t wait to teach other children to play string instruments.

I started teaching strings in Salina in 1975 and retired last May after 31 years. My assignment was Central HS orchestra and four elementary schools. I also started a Strolling Strings group with my HS stringers to play for dinners in the community.

My husband David has partially retired as a music professor at Bethany College. He conducted the band,

orchestra & jazz band there for many years. I have two daughters: Anne Marie, who teaches HS English in Winter Park, Colorado; and Holly, who teaches 2nd grade in Yuma, Arizona. I am a voracious reader, an avid RVer, and I belong to a Gourmet Club in Lindsborg.

I sing in our church choir and sometimes play my cello there. This summer we went to Alaska!

About Mrs. Higbee