We would like to congratulate our scholarship award winners for 2009:

Volkwein Memorial Scholarship
Rachel Linsmeier, senior from Michigan State University

Martha Ann Stark Memorial Scholarship (by Linda Moorehouse/Frank Wickes)
Emily Stuart, senior from Houghton College

Charlotte Plummer Owen Memorial Scholarship (sponsored by Susan Bisiri)
Emily Pecoraro, sophomore from Ithaca College

Gladys Stone Wright Scholarship
Tatiana Romanko, sophomore from Murray State University

Patricia Garren Scholarship in memory of Kathryn Siphers and Lorraine Paris
Kristi Fowler, junior from University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Paula Thornton Scholarship
Melissa Lane, senior from Central Michigan University

Ladies of the Podium Scholarship (in memory of Kathy Schmidt)
Tonya Mitchell, junior from Indiana University

Diane Gorzycki Memorial Scholarship
Victoria Allcock, freshman from University of Texas, El Paso

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.