THOMAS WRIGHT, Professor of Piano, received the B.M. degree from Butler University and the M.M. degree from Indiana University. While pursuing advanced studies at Columbia University, he became staff pianist for the NBC television network. He later was musical director for a daily radio show on the Mutual Network and also served the motion picture industry in Hollywood as a musical consultant. As a noted specialist in the music of Gershwin, he founded the Gershwin Festival Concerts at Florida State University. He continues to play concerts throughout the United States and to solo with symphony orchestras. Named to "Outstanding Educators of America" in 1975, Wright received the "Faculty of the Year" award at FSU in the same year, the Panhellenic Professor of the Year in 1988, a University teaching award in 1991, the Phi Eta Sigma award for teaching excellence in 1994 and 1995, and the Panhellenic IFC Outstanding Educator of the Year award in 1993 and 1995.