SUSAN GUSE Susan Guse received her master’s degree in sacred music from Wittenberg University and a bachelor’s in music from Smith College. In 1998 she took over her current position as the director of music ministries at St. John’s. In addition to duties as organist and adult choir director, she oversees the children’s choir program, two instrumental ensembles and directs six handbell choirs. Ms. Guse was the director of the Dutchess Interfaith children’s choir in the fall of 1990 and 2000 and guest conductor for the Hudson Valley Children’s Choir Festival in May 2003. She is a board member of the Central Hudson Valley chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She is also a member of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, Chorister’s Guild, the Hymn Society of America and Mu Phi Epsilon.