Kimberly Kay Anderson Wooster
1959
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Kim Anderson Wooster, a
pianist and contralto, has taught at all levels in the Seventh-day Adventist
school system. Although her earliest teaching experience was as an elementary
school teacher in a multi-grade school, she found teaching music to be fulfilling
and has now taught music, English, and art at the secondary level for over a
decade.
Kim was born and raised in
Hutchinson, Minnesota, one of three children born to Wesley and Harriet
Andersen Anderson. She and her siblings, Curtis and Clinton, were raised in a
home where music was an important activity. Their father was a self-taught
musician who played guitar and sang and their mother a talented singer who had
sung in choral groups in her academy years under Milo Hill and at Union College
under J. Wesley Rhodes.
Although members of the
family are primarily singers, Kim started piano lessons at an early age and
continued study on it and voice along with saxophone in her high school years.
All three children attended Maplewood Academy, located in Hutchinson, and all
three have pursued music teaching as a career. Kim was particularly inspired
during her academy years by music teachers Klaus Leukert
and Stephen Zork.
Following graduation from MWA
in 1978, she enrolled as an elementary education major at Union College, where
she also pursued serious voice study with Margaret Fuller and sang under Lynn
Wickham's direction in the Unionaires, the school's
select choral ensemble. Following graduation from UC in 1982, she married Nick
Wooster in the fall of 1983 and began her elementary teaching at the Faribault
Church School in Minnesota.
After staying home to raise
their two sons, Karl and James, she accepted a music position at Minnetonka
Christian Academy in Minneapolis, in 1999. She has taught music at MWA since
2000.
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Sources:
information provided by Kimberly Anderson Wooster and Clinton and Curtis
Anderson, May/June 2011; Mid-America Outlet, 1 April 1982, 7; Maplewood
Academy website.