

Anne Dolce has been teaching audio for 30 several years at Panama Central School. Dolce will be retiring at the stop of the college yr.
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PANAMA — Longtime music trainer Anne Dolce is retiring soon after far more than 30 several years at Panama Central College.
“It’s very bittersweet,” Dolce said. “I’ve had an astounding occupation at Panama. I was employed in 1992 and the teacher before me was employed in 1960, and it is no marvel to me that there have only been two band directors in that time. It is a terrific location to perform and connect with home. The group is excellent and it’s pretty straightforward to prosper.”
When she has no immediate future options, Dolce said she does have a number of things she is looking ahead to.
“I’m heading to have pleasant, calming walks with my canine,” Dolce reported. “I’ll be playing pickleball and (substitute training) just about every so often. I really do not intellect doing work. I consider I will discover my path, but I’m not jumping into anything at all quite promptly.”
Dolce mentioned she is most very pleased of the successful band outings and competitions through her tenure.
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“We’ve just experienced so quite a few effective band journeys,” Dolce stated. “I have current parents of pupils who started out out as my college students, and all of them have gone on band journeys and competitions to places like Myrtle Beach. We experienced so quite a few amazing ordeals. I generally say, even if we never get, the knowledge and learning and the route that we took to get there is what’s most important. That, and that we had fun.”
Dolce graduated from West Virginia University and formerly labored in Prince George’s County, Maryland and Fairfax County, Virginia in advance of going back property to Chautauqua County. Completely, she has been a audio teacher for 35 years.
Dolce is married to Jamestown High School’s Tony Dolce, and together they have two little ones, Christian and Amelia. Her father is Monthly bill Chandler, longtime music director at Holy Apostles Church. Dolce is the church’s handbell choir director and present-day assistant director of music ministries operating with the adult choir. Other new music activities for Dolce involve undertaking with the Harmonic Brass Quintet and the Chautauqua Live performance Band, and Dolce mentioned she is pondering about offering private lessons to space brass learners. She has also performed the French horn as a component of the Living Christmas Tree.
Panama Superintendent Bert Lictus reflected on Dolce’s vocation at Panama and what she has meant to the school.
“(Dolce) has been below for 30 several years,” Lictus reported. “In that time she’s designed 1 of the premier band systems in Western New York. She’s introduced so considerably a lot more to her college students than just educating them music, she teaches them to be their finest.”
Moreover, Lictus said it seriously hit him at her last concert the evening of Might 17 how a lot the college would be various without having her.
“There’s so substantially I could say,” Lictus stated. “It’s not likely to be the identical without her.”
Pursuing in Dolce’s footsteps, Lictus will also be retiring from the school in October.








