 During Lemma's tenure as director, in 1968, another American Peace Corps volunteer, the Harvard-educated Charles Sutton, Jr., was assigned by the Peace Corps to assist the Orchestra as Administrator, a position in which he continued until 1970.Sutton had arrived in Ethiopia in 1966 and, immediately attracted to Ethiopia's traditional music, actually mastered the "masenqo", studying with Orchestra member Getamesay Abebe.He began performing with the Orchestra in March 1967 (playing "masenqo" and singing in Amharic), at Lemma's invitation.