| Graduation Year | Class of 1959 |
| Date of Passing | Oct 03, 1993 |
| About | Boulder Daily Camera, Tuesday, Oct 5, 1993 p. 6A Susan Loraine Porter Susan Loraine Porter, a former Boulder resident, died of cancer Sunday, Oct 3, at her home in Loveland. She was 52. She was born August 20, 1941, in Okmulgee, Okla., the daughter of S. B. Ingerson and Tomme L. Roberts Ingerson. She married Harold Eugene Porter in Winfield, Kan., in 1962. The couple separated in 1972. Mrs. Porter received a bachelor's degree from Southwestern College in Kansas in 1964 and a master's degree from the University of Denver in 1972. She came to Boulder that year and earned a PhD. In musicology form the University of Colorado in 1977. Since 1977, she was on the faculty at Ohio State University at Lima and was the first woman there to be promoted to professor. She also taught at Keele University n Staffordshire, England, in the fall of 1984 as an exchange professor. Her field of specialization was American music, which she taught at both the Lima and Columbus, Ohio, campuses of Ohio State University. She was an active member of the Sonneck Society of American Music, serving on its board of trustees from 1974 to 1985 and as editor of its Bulletin from 1985 to 1992. She received the society's Distinguished Service Citation in 1993 for exemplary and continuing service. She served as director of the Great Black Swamp Dulcimer Festival at the Lima campus from 1979 to 1992. In 1992, she was induced into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame. In 1993, she was awarded the Irving Lowens Award for outstanding contributions to American musical history for her book "With an Air Debonair: Musical Theatre in America 1785-1815." She moved to Loveland from Lima on Sept. 29 to be with her family. Survivors include her parents of Bartlesville, Okla.; Harold Eugene Porter; two sons, Mark David Porter of Loveland and Lael Andrew Porter of Fargo, N.D.; three sisters, Mary-Helen Marigza of Nashville, Tenn., Myrtle Ingerson of Bartlesville and Christine Hindle of Caney, Kan.; and two grandchildren. Cremation was conducted and services will be at a later date in Lima. Contributions may be made to the Reed music Scholarship Fund at Ohio State University at Lima or to the American Music Research Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, which is also the recipient of Porter's professional library research papers. Kibbey-Fishburn Funeral Home is handling arrangements. |
