The members of WBDI would like to congratulate the following scholarship winners:

Helen May Butler Memorial Scholarship - Kristin Pauley, Western Illinois University
Charlotte Plummer Owen Memorial Scholarship - Anna Hall, Univ. of Nebraska-Omaha
Martha Ann Stark Memorial Scholarship - Alanna Tate, University of South Carolina
Virginia Volkwein Memorial Scholarship - Karen Bertucci, Univ. of Northern Colorado
Gladys Stone Wright Scholarship - Alexandra Schifler, Western Illinois University
Patricia Garren Scholarship - Jennifer Cloughly, Western Carolina University
Paula Thornton Scholarship - Melanie Driscoll, University of Florida
Ladies of the Podium  - Laura Reardon, University of Toledo

The Women Band Directors International (WBDI) was officially chartered on December 18, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois as the Women Band Directors National Association. In December 1997, the organization officially adopted the current name, and in December 2006 we celebrated our 37th anniversary at The Midwest Clinic in Chicago.

WBDI is an organization in which every woman band director is represented at the international level regardless of the length of her experience, or the level at which she works. It is the only international organization for women band directors, and is intended to serve as an association which supports, promotes, and mentors women in the band field.