In 2010, the Orange County Music and Arts Administrators honored Betsy as Outstanding Arts Educator in Elementary/Vocal Music. The La Habra City School District named Betsy “Teacher of the Year” for the 2013-2014 school year. Betsy worked her last two years establishing a newly formed Visual and Performing Arts Elementary School for her district. In those two short years she assisted in the school receiving the NAMM “Best Communities for Music Education” award (one of 90 in the nation) and became a California Exceptional Arts School.

Betsy was a Director with the Southern California Children’s Chorus (SCCC) for close to two decades before her retirement. She was one of five on faculty directing the Intermediate Chorus. Among the many performances with the chorus, Betsy was the on-call director for Disneyland’s 50th anniversary celebrations, performed for all the living Medal of Honor recipients at the Reagan Presidential Library and recorded with Hans Zimmer at Capital Records for their performance at the Academy Awards (which won an Emmy).

Betsy is level three Kodály trained and earned a Master’s of Music Education at CSU Fullerton where she was an adjunct professor and partnered to mentor future music teachers. She often presented at workshops and conferences and served as guest clinician at area festivals.

Betsy and her husband, Bob, live in Nampa and have four daughters, four sons-in-law, six beautiful granddaughters, eight sweet grandsons, and a cute little dog named Chloe.