Northwest District Award of Excellence
19801980 - Charles Isley
1981 - No Selection 1982 - No Selection 1983 - Kathryn Siphers 1984 - Robert Love 1985 - John Miller 1986 - Camilla Graeber 1987 - Bob Williams 1988 - Arden Carson 1989 - Russell French |
19901990 - Tom Deese
1991 - Jim Graeber 1992 - Bob Taylor 1993 - Dennis Carswell 1994 - Linda Noe 1995 - John Craig 1996 - Edgar Whitener 1997 - Wynn Justice 1998 - Daisy Robinette 1999 - Steve Shelton |
2000 2000 - Catherine Cook
2001 - Robert Patillo 2002 - Kathryn Fox 2003 - Bill Witcher 2004 - Ronald D. Amos 2005 - Bill Winkler 2006 - Ricky Harris 2007 - James Daugherty 2008 - Kevin Howard 2009 - Randy Ingold |
20102010 - W.C. Lanning
2011 - Jim Kirkpatrick 2012 - Ben Rhodes 2013 - Dee Raby 2014 - Matt Liner 2015 - David Deese 2016 - Terry Reid 2017 - Jason Childers 2018 - Leah Massey 2019 - Haskew Smith |
20202020 - Forrest Munden
2021 - Robert Johnston |
Criteria to be nominated for the Award of Excellence
The Award of Excellence was established in 1980 to salute the musical excellence of band directors of the Northwest District NC Bandmasters Association.
To be eligible for nomination of this award the band director must meet the following criteria...
- The Band Director should be an active or recently retired member in good standing with NWDBA.
- The Band Director’s program should be one of excellence, providing students with many and varied performance opportunities, including those offered at district and
state levels as well as, displaying a consistent record of Superior Ratings at MPA.
- The candidate must have also displayed outstanding success in many critical areas of education that may include teaching skills, musicianship, leadership and
consistent high level of performance by ensembles.
- The Band Director shows a consistent pattern of service to the NWDBA as an officer, board member, committee member, event chairman, etc.
- The Director must have taught in the NW District for at least 7 years.
- The Director should be someone that is thought of among his or her colleagues as a “top quality” teacher, director and person.
Nominations and voting for the Award of Excellence will be made at the annual winter business meeting. Nominations may be made by active members only.
Each member will have one vote. Each year the Award of Excellence nominees will alternate between a middle school and a high school director.
The recipient of this award receives an engraved plaque and letters of congratulations sent to his/her principal and superintendent of schools, in addition to an invitation to conduct the Middle School Concert Band, if he/she is a middle school director or the High School 9-12 Concert Band, if he/she is a high school director, at the All-District Clinic.
To be eligible for nomination of this award the band director must meet the following criteria...
- The Band Director should be an active or recently retired member in good standing with NWDBA.
- The Band Director’s program should be one of excellence, providing students with many and varied performance opportunities, including those offered at district and
state levels as well as, displaying a consistent record of Superior Ratings at MPA.
- The candidate must have also displayed outstanding success in many critical areas of education that may include teaching skills, musicianship, leadership and
consistent high level of performance by ensembles.
- The Band Director shows a consistent pattern of service to the NWDBA as an officer, board member, committee member, event chairman, etc.
- The Director must have taught in the NW District for at least 7 years.
- The Director should be someone that is thought of among his or her colleagues as a “top quality” teacher, director and person.
Nominations and voting for the Award of Excellence will be made at the annual winter business meeting. Nominations may be made by active members only.
Each member will have one vote. Each year the Award of Excellence nominees will alternate between a middle school and a high school director.
The recipient of this award receives an engraved plaque and letters of congratulations sent to his/her principal and superintendent of schools, in addition to an invitation to conduct the Middle School Concert Band, if he/she is a middle school director or the High School 9-12 Concert Band, if he/she is a high school director, at the All-District Clinic.
