Dr. Sally Cherrington Beggs the Chair of the Music Department and College Organist at Newberry College the Lutheran (ELCA) College for the Southeast lost her three year battle with cancer on Saturday March 17 2012. Born in Allentown PA on August 20 1959 she was the third daughter of the late James Cherrington and Doris Cherrington. Services were scheduled for Sunday April 22 2012 in Wiles Chapel on the campus of Newberry College. Prelude did begin at 6:30 PM with services scheduled for 7:00 PM. Friends were invited to visit with the family following the services. Dr. Cherrington completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in organ from Yale University where she also received her M. M. A. and Master of Music degrees as an organ student of Thomas Murray and Charles Krigbaum. While at Yale she won the Charles Ives Organ Prize and the Faculty Award from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. She was named the Frank Bozyan Organ Scholar from 1989 to 1991. She was an Instructor in Organ at Yale as well as the Minister of Music at the First Congregational Church in Wallingford CT. During this period she also premiered Bell Piece by Percy Grainger with the Yale Concert Band in Carnegie Hall New York City. She received her undergraduate education at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove Pennsylvania where she graduated first in her class. Prior to attending Yale Dr. Cherrington was the Staff Organist and Teacher at the International Headquarters of the Allen Organ Company. In this capacity she performed extensively (about 150 solo recitals) ran their active teaching program wrote instructional materials including Allen Organs series of three educational videos for church organists now sold internationally. Dr. Cherrington relocated to South Carolina in 2000 from the Chicago area where she was the full-time Director of Music at St. Lukes Lutheran Church in Park Ridge and the College Organist and adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at Elmhurst College in Illinois. Known affectionately by students as Dr. Sally she has served as the Music Department Chair at Newberry College since her arrival and as a substitute organist throughout the Columbia area including regular appearances at Aveleigh Presbyterian in Newberry where she attended with her family until 2010 and St. Francis of Assisi Episcopalian Church in Chapin. She served St. Stephens Lutheran Church in Lexington as a part-time organist from 2010-2011 while battling cancer. Under her guidance the Music Department at Newberry College has doubled in size and become one of the strongest private college Music programs in the state. Dr. Cherrington has performed extensively in major churches throughout the eastern seaboard and Midwest as well as making several concert tours of Europe as a soloist or accompanist including a performance for Pope John Paul II. Programs include concerts with the Chicago Brass Quintet (Nov 2011) and solo recitals at two national conventions of the Organ Historical Society. She was also the organist/choir director for the 2005 National Triennial Convention of the Women of the ELCA. She has been the organ soloist with several orchestras and chamber groups for major works including the organ concerti of Handel and Poulenc and the Saint-Saens Organ Symphony. She has presented workshops for professional groups such as the American Guild of Organists the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians and the Music Teachers Association. She has had articles published in The Diapason Your Church Grace Notes and Cross-Accent magazines; her article on Organ Pedagogy appears in the new International Organ Encyclopedia published by Routledge. A beloved wife and mother she is survived by her husband of 19 years Dr. Mike Beggs and two sons Zachary age 16 and Nathan age 12. She is also survived by two sisters Linda Svok of Keene New Hampshire and Peggy Reese of Allentown Pennsylvania. We wish to thank all who have remembered Sally in prayer and gift through this battle. On line condolences may be sent to the family at www.whitakerfuneralhome.com. Whitaker Funeral Home of Newberry is assisting the family.