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SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) — A retired South Dakota teacher has received a distinguished service award after 40 years of teaching music.
The Black Hills Pioneer reports (http://bit.ly/1zt2RBf ) Sharon Gugel of Spearfish received the 2014 Distinguished Service to Music Award from the South Dakota Music Education Association. Gugel taught high school and junior high music and was involved in musicals, madrigals and variety shows. She also instructed at Black Hills State College and retired as a choir director in 2004.
Gugel says her mother and four older sisters were all teachers. She received her master's degree in education with an emphasis in music and art from Northern State College.
Eric Nies graduated from Spearfish High School in 1998. He says Gugel's love of music was "very infectious" and she was an "excellent" teacher.
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