Joe Stallings
Don Snowden inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2022-2023
Longtime Pensacola State College music professor Joe Stallings has been inducted into the Florida College System Activities Association Hall of Fame (FCSAA) for the 2023-2024 academic year.
A guitar lover, Stallings established the classical guitar program at Pensacola State in 1982 and is currently the director of the College’s Guitar Program. He is also the founder and faculty adviser for the PSC Guitar Association and founder and director of the Pensacola Finger Style Acoustic Guitar Competition.
Stallings also is the founder and director of the Pensacola Guitar Orchestra and founder and chairman of the Pensacola Guitar Society.
He has participated in the Florida College System Activities Association’s Winter Music Symposium since 1990. He has also initiated a new classical guitar competition division in the FCSAA’s Music Student Artist Competition and helped establish the Symposium Guitar Ensemble.
Some of Stallings other achievements and titles include:
- Coordinator of Community Affairs, PSC Academy of Music 1988-89
- Founder and director of Pensacola Renaissance Ensemble 1983
- PSC Curriculum Committee 2005-06
- Directed the Pensacola Guitar Orchestra 2008
- PSC Scholarship Policy Committee 2014-18
Don Snowden
Stalling earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Western Kentucky University and his Doctor of Musical Arts from Arizona State University.
He taught for two years at the University of South Alabama and has taught for over 41 years at Pensacola State and the University of West Florida.
Stallings is the second Pensacola State faculty member to be inducted into the FCSAA Hall of Fame in recent years.
For the 2022-2023 academic, retired PSC Performing Arts Department Head Don Snowden was inducted into the FCSAA Hall of Fame. He had a long and industrious career at Pensacola State before retiring in 2020. He started his career as a music instructor in 1987.
Snowden earned a bachelor’s degree from Livingston University and his master’s from the University of Southern Mississippi. He has served as the director of bands and the department head of the College’s Performing Arts Department.
During his tenure, Snowden advised hundreds of music and theater students, raised over half a million dollars for the department for scholarships and instruments, and conducted honor bands and clinics around Florida and the U.S.
He contributed to the FCSAA through his service on the FCSAA Board as a Music Division Representative from 2003-2007. His significant and long-term contributions to the FCS are apparent in the number of FCSAA awards earned by Pensacola State College students under Snowden’s leadership.
Some of Snowden’s other accomplishments and accolades include:
- Muriel Shugart Music Award – 1998, 2001
- President of the Association of Concert Bands – 2007-2009
- Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition – October 2013
- Champion of the Arts – 2016
- Professional Leader of the Year Award (Pensacola Area Commitment to Excellence) – 2020
Other Pensacola State faculty members inducted into the FCSAA Hall of Fame are Rodney Whatley (2019), Bill Hamilton (2018), Ken McAferty (2006), Vicki Carson (2006), Tom Botsford (2000), Horace Hartsell (1999), Donn Peery (1998), Ed Holdnak (1997), and Joy McClintock (1996).
The FCSAA Hall of Fame includes administrators, coaches, advisers, officials, students and other nominees who have contributed at least 10 years to FCSAA or one of its member institutions. Inductees have been selected by their peers on the merits of community and state college contributions and achievements as well as significant accomplishments.