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a native Pittsburgher, he is also an avid Steelers fan, which apparently has on more than one occasion become a source of conflict with certain members of NPM’s Board of Directors who hail from the Buckeye State! He enjoys home improvement and working outside whenever possible, finding it to be a release. Preston is a trained organist, an instrument that has still in many places been able to continue ministry through the pandemic, but over the past year he has come to realize how profound an impact the loss of choral singing has had on him and longs to hear the sung Word proclaimed again.


Te new Forum for Programming and Certification, according to Preston, “aims to give members a substantive role in shaping and executing the many different facets of NPM programming, and to bring all of the certification and certificate programs under one umbrella, so that all the work and programming of the Association may foster ever more inspired musical liturgy in the Church. I look forward to working together with many talented members toward this common goal.”


Dolly Sokol


Chair, Forum for Finance and Development


Dolly Sokol is the retired Director of the Office of


Worship for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and former Associate Director of the Office of Divine Worship of the Archdiocese of Chicago, and she has a Master’s degree in Teological Studies from Catholic Teological Union in Chicago. A national speaker for organizations like NPM, FDLC, and the Southwest Liturgical Conference, she has been a member of NPM since 1978. She and her husband Joe are retired and live in Peoria, AZ.


Dolly loves the theater—both as an audience member and as a performer. “In fact,” she says, “last year I was cast as the lead in 9 to 5, the Musical with Trilogy Players. We were just 4 days away from opening night when everything had to shut down because of COVID. You can imagine the disappointment of the actors,


singers, dancers, and all the backstage staff. But the show must go on and we are scheduled to perform the show in February of 2022!”


As chair of the Finance and Development Forum, Dolly hopes to bring together NPM members with expertise in this area to assist NPM with fundraising and development and to monitor its fiscal policy, and she looks forward to NPM members stepping forward to work on this Forum—one that is “vital to the health and growth of NPM.”


Of this strange year that we have all come through, Dolly says, “I look forward to the day we can sing together, pray together, hug and make merriment together, and serve the people of God together. We serve now to the best of our ability and will do so more fully when our broken communities are made whole again in Christ.”


Michael Accurso


Chair, Forum for Directors of Music Ministry


Michael Accurso currently serves as


Director of Music for the Diocese of Raleigh and Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral in Raleigh, having moved into this role after completing graduate work at the University of Notre Dame. His wife is also a church musician, and they have three children under the age of six and a “rambunctious dog named Taxted,” possibly the best and most appropriate church music name for a dog in the Association.


Of his work chairing the DMM Forum, he says, “I hope that I can be a resource for those who serve in this important role in their parishes. As a Forum, we will try to provide something meaningful to all directors, regardless of where they are in their ministry—from novices to veterans, from those in rural areas to those in urban areas, those with many resources and those with none, and various cultural needs. I hope as chair, I can bring people together to help one another and share their experiences to lift each other up. Tis camaraderie has always been one of the strongest assets of NPM.”


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