Meetings: 2006
Ashland, Oregon
June 23 - 27, 2006
Hosts:
Kathy Cox & Gladys Wright

2006 Summer Meeting
Southern Oregon University

JUNE 23, 2006
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Executive Board Meeting (all officers and chairpersons)
Optional Theater excursion for other members

JUNE 24, 2006
7:30 AM -- Depart for Crater Lake National Park
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM -- Collaborative Idea Exchange and Peer Motivation session led by Gladys Wright (at Crater Lake Lodge)
Return to Ashland for dinner and evening session
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM -- "Programming New Music for Teaching and Performance Success" -- Robert W. Smith

JUNE 25, 2006
8:30 AM - 9:10 AM - "On the Oregon Band Trail" (a perspective on school bands in Oregon) Panel Discussion by Women Band Directors of Oregon
9:15 AM - 9:55 AM -- "Middle School Jazz Band Tips" -- Nora Alstedt
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM -- "From the First Band Class to a First Class Band" -- Robert W. Smith
11:00 AM - 11:40 AM -- "Motivation through Participation in Festivals/Contests, Trips, Guest Conductors, and Commissioned Works" -- Fran Shelton and Robyn Wilkes
11:45 - 12:15 -- Committee Meetings
12:15 - 1:15 -- LUNCH
1:30 - 3:30 PM -- American Band College classroom observations (WBDI members will have a pass to attend the afternoon class sessions of the ABC to observe)
7:00 PM -- Buffet for members, ABC women band directors and other guests

JUNE 26, 2006
8:30 AM - 9:10 AM -- "Clinic" -- Suzanne Bannister
9:15 AM - 9:55 AM -- "Can Women Directors Have it All?"-- Panel Discussion led by Carol Nendza
10:00 AM -- 10:40 AM -- "Planning for Success" -- Barbara Prentice Lambrecht
10:45 AM - 11:35 AM -- "How YOUR BAND can be a Sudler Cup Recipient" panel discussion by previous Sudler Cup winners
(Noreen Linnemann, Pat Garren, Kyle Steffans, Marion West, and Diane Gorzycki)
11:40 AM - 12:10 PM -- Committee meetings and/or reports to the general session
12:15 - Until Lunch, followed by free-time to enjoy area attractions
7:30 - 9:00 PM -- Concert of ABC Band in Medford

JUNE 27, 2006
8:00 AM -- depart for Jeremiah Smith State Redwood Park
12:00 NOON -- Picnic lunch in the Redwood Park
After lunch depart for short drive to Brookings Harbor, Oregon Afternoon and evening free to enjoy the Pacific Coastline or to explore Oregon Caves