Janice Chandler Gold grew up in Huntington and graduated from Marshall University in 1946. She attended Columbia, Ball State, and Marshall universities for her post-graduate work. While fulfilling her master’s degree in 1962, she wrote the music theory coursebook that she would use during her 25-year teaching career at Huntington East High School. Known for choral directing, she was also a pianist, organist, composer and choral arranger.
Gold won many awards including the Cabell County Teacher of the Year in 1976, and she was inducted into the Huntington East High School Hall of Fame in 1990. The Women's Club of Huntington selected her as one of the "Outstanding Women of Huntington" in 1996, and the Huntington East High School auditorium was renamed the "Janice E. Chandler Auditorium" in her honor in 2002. She was the music director at the Beverly Hills United Methodist Church for 51 years.
She performed in the professional singing group, the "Four Femmes' in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her Huntington East High School performing groups included the "A Cappella Choir" and "Lads and Lassies.” Her community A Cappella singing groups were "Renaissance," "Gold 'n Girls" and the "Woodlands Warblers."
