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National Executive Board
National Vice-President, Alumnae Chapters
Leslie Odom Miller
E-mail: NVP.Alumnae@sai-national.org
She plays a mean oboe (and English horn), has an affinity for cats and horses, can keep up with a three-year-old ball of energy, and knows her way around the Internet like few others.
Leslie Odom Miller, elected as National Vice President of Alumnae Chapters, is Associate Professor of Oboe and Theory at the University of Florida. Initiated into the Zeta Chapter at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, she is a third generation SAI. Her mother, Cornelia Findlay Odom (best known in recent years as the “Centennial Quilt Lady”), is an initiate of Iota Mu at Drury College (now University) in Springfield, Missouri. Leslie’s grandfather, James F. Findlay, for whom the Findlay Student Center was named, served many years as Drury’s President, and her grandmother Blanche Pritchard Findlay was initiated as a patroness by Iota Mu. The recipient of the Sword of Honor, the Rose of Honor and the Diamond Sword of Honor, Leslie served as Lambda B Province Officer prior to her work as National Vice President of College Chapters (1997-2000).
She has moderated the SAI Listserve for the past six years, serving as a Fraternity Director. Leslie earned her Doctorate of Musical Arts in oboe performance and literature and her Master’s in music theory from the Eastman School of Music. While at Eastman, she studied with Richard Killmer and received the coveted Performer’s Certificate. Leslie has concertized extensively as a solo artist throughout North and South America and Europe.
She has performed as principal oboe in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Symphony, and on the 1988 CBS Masterworks recording with the Eastman Wind Ensemble, as well as section oboe and English horn with the Indianapolis Symphony and the Jacksonville, Florida, Symphony.
Leslie was a visiting artist during the 1996 summer session at the Banff Centre for the Arts and was on faculty at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan during the 2002 summer. Leslie and her husband Ken live in Gainesville with their three-year-old son Kenny.
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