Silver Baton Award
The purpose of this award is to honor outstanding members of WOMEN BAND DIRECTORS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
who have actively participated on the national level.
Criteria for selection:
-
Consistently produces bands of high performance level.
-
Consistently performs programs of high musical quality.
-
Has made an outstanding contribution to the community and the country through music.
-
Has made an outstanding contribution to the improvement of bands through participation and leadership in professional organizations.
-
Must be an active member of WOMEN BAND DIRECTORS INTERNATIONAL, INC. and have made an outstanding contribution to the association through participation.
This award shall consist of a silver medallion.
Nominate a woman for the Silver Baton Award.
Recipients
2023 - Bethann Adams (TX)
2022 - Dr. Courtney Snyder (MI)
2017 - Terri Palazzolo
2016 - Marilyn Bennett
2015 - Val Sherman
2014 - Linda Thompson
2009 - Frances Shelton
2005 - Donna Wirth
2005 - Robyn Bell
2003 - Deborah Bradley
2003 - Patricia Backhaus
2001 - Carol Nendza
1998 - Kathy Harbuck Cox
1997 - Sue Glossop
1997 - Cheryl Newton
1996 - Linda Moorhouse
1996 - Susan Creasap
1993 - Lorraine Paris
1992 - Marianne Sandstrom
1991 - Patricia Root
1990 - Major Virginia Allen
1990 - Judith E. Grimes
1989 - Marguerite Wilder
1988 - Lucille Alexander
1987 - Laurie Neeb
1986 - Catherine Heard
1985 - Barbara Lovett
1985 - Marie Cotaya
1984 - Noreen Linnemann
1983 - Donna Wirth
1982 - Patricia Garren
1981 - Jacqueline Hunt
1980 - Judith Grimes
1979 - Mildred Reiner
1977 - Ileane McElwee
1977 - Mary Ann Dalton
1977 - Dorothy Dugger
1975 - Nora Arquit
1975 - Mildred Black
1975 - Gladys Stone Wright
1975 - Ramona Meltz
1974 - Dorothy Stewart Jones
1972 - Faye Hanson