2025

by Lauren Vogel Weiss Dr. Dennis George Rogers, who taught percussion at the college level in Missouri for almost 45 years, died on February 25, 2025 at age 77.  “The percussion world lost a great man,” stated Julie Davila, PAS Immediate Past President and a former student of Rogers. “Many of us have people who…

by Lauren Vogel Weiss Dr. Sherman Hong, Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, died on January 27, 2025 at age 83. “I was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Dr. Sherman Hong,” stated Dr. John Wooton, who replaced Hong as the Professor of Percussion at USM in 1992.  Hong…

by Lauren Vogel Weiss October 5, 1962 – January 11, 2025 Steven W. Beck, Executive Director for the Percussive Arts Society from 1988 through 1996, died in his sleep on Jan. 11, 2025 at the age of 62. He oversaw PAS’s move from Urbana, Illinois to Lawton, Oklahoma in 1991 and was instrumental in opening…