Joyce Richardson-Melech is currently a public school music teacher. She has been included in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Education. She has received the prestigious Award for Excellence in Teaching from the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in 2000, 2001, and 2003. She has also contributed lesson plans published in the Teachers’ Resource Book, which is published by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Carolyn Richardson Durham is Professor of Foreign Languages and Chair of the Department of Languages at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University at Greensboro, North Carolina. She has been included in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, and is especially interested in literature of the Caribbean. Dr. Durham is the mother of two daughters and is Joyce’s sister.