Choral Director - Gail Goodman

Mrs. Goodman joins the St. Pius faculty this year as the choral director.  For the past five years, Mrs. Goodman has accompanied the chorus, under the direction of Chad Paetznick, and prior to Chad, under Richard Marcus' direction.

Mrs. Goodman is presently music minister at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Tucker, where she accompanies both the traditional adult choir and Crossfire Teen Band, as well as directing the adult traditional choir and cantors.  Gail has entered her tenth year as a full-time music minister and is grateful to her pastor, Father Patrick Kingery, a Pius alumni, for allowing her to double-dip in the musical pool.

Prior to being hired by Monsignor Paul Fogarty as music minister, Gail taught school at Immaculate Heart of Mary School as music teacher for one year.  Teaching all grades K-8 was fun, fulfilling and challenging.  Gail also prepared music for the school masses and worked with Father Fred Wendell who was pastor at that time at IHM.

Gail actually has accompanied the Celebration choir at Holy Cross for almost 20 years, so church music and liturgy are ingrained in her past.  She even served on the music ministry team a few years back, assisting Rebecca Rose and enjoyed working with the singers/musicians in their efforts to bring music into the liturgy.

Mrs. Goodman. although residing in Georgia for the past twenty-one years, is a native Oklahoman.  Her alma mater is the University of Oklahoma, where she graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts, concentrating in Acting/Directing.

She directs a musical yearly at Holy Cross;  the proceeds to benefit the St. Martin de Porres Ministry and homeless of Atlanta.  Presently, she is directing at St. Thomas More Church in Decatur (for her former pastor, Monsignor Fogarty), and they will be presenting "The Wizard of Oz" in September.

Gail hopes to bring a renewed enthusiasm to the chorus and looks forward to working with students from past years, as well as new ones.  Being director of a "chorus" allows her to play with secular songs as well as sacred ones and as always, working with students will be a new, fun direction for her.