About FSO: Board of Directors

Cheryl Ossenfort, president

Cheryl Ossenfort received both her undergraduate degree in Psychology and her master's degree in counseling from Washington University in St. Louis. After her marriage to John, the couple moved overseas for nine years, producing two children. Upon returning to the United States, she re-entered academia and obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Houston in 1998.  While studying, she began teaching statistics in the University of Houston system before moving to Flagstaff once John retired. She then taught at Coconino Community College until she retired last year. 

Cheryl grew up playing the piano and organ and bought a harpsichord while overseas, sometimes accompanying a small group of women playing recorders. Music has always been a part of her life, and she is honored to serve on the Flagstaff Symphony Board of Directors.

Hanna Cortner, treasurer

While she enjoyed ballet lessons as a youth, and the wonderful experiences she had as a clarinetist with her high school band, Hanna wasn’t good enough at either to go much further, so instead she became an academic specializing in water and forest policy. Currently retired, Hanna held professorial appointments at both the University of Arizona and NAU, and visiting policy analyst positions with the USDA Forest Service and the US Army Corps of Engineers. She is also on the board of directors of the Washington, DC- based Pinchot Institute for Conservation, second vice-president of the Flagstaff Symphony Guild, and a member of the Flagstaff Water Commission. Hanna and her husband Richard have lived in Flagstaff since 2011.

Phyllis Wolfskill, secretary

Bio to come

  • 2013 Directors (as of 5/15/13)

  • Janie Cook, ex-officio Guild Liaison
  • Hanna Cortner, Treasurer
  • Wendy Edwards
  • Helen Hudgens Ferrell
  • Linda Hall
  • Max Jerrell
  • Ann Johnson
  • Claudia Jurowski
  • Molly Munger
  • Cheryl Ossenfort, President
  • Bill Rowland
  • Nando Schellen
  • Nancy Sullivan, ex-officio Orchestra Liaison
  • Todd Sullivan
  • Carl Taylor, President- Elect
  • Michael Vincent, ex-officio NAU
  • Phyllis Wolfskill, Secretary

  • Directors Emeritus

  • Irene Alpert
  • Elizabeth Archuleta
  • Beverly Armstrong
  • Helen Black
  • Ted Bowell
  • Irene Croft
  • John Cummings
  • Will Duncan
  • Kathleen Franklin
  • Mary Hostetler
  • Lela Montfort
  • Bill Morrison
  • Richard Neville
  • Hal Stern
  • Carl Taylor
  • Peter Wainwright
  • Tom Ward
  • Jean Wilcox
  • Harvey Bershader
  • Linda Rumics