Coreen Gray, of Mt Maunganui, QSM, for services to choral music
Coreen Gray joined Papamoa Beach Women’s Institute in 1981 and has served as President. She was Secretary of the Tauranga Federation and helped establish the Tauranga Women’s Institute choir. She was a member of the Oriana Singers and a vocalist and accompanist with the Tauranga Civic Choir. She volunteers at Bayswater Retirement Village teaching singing to people with dementia and staging musical productions with general residents. She teaches singing through the University of the Third Age. Mrs Gray is an organist at St Mary’s Anglican Church in Mt Maunganui and a member of the Te Puke Lyceum Choir.