SCHOLARSHIPS

WBDI COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS are given annually to women enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate instrumental music program, with the intent of becoming a band director. Applications are accepted from September 1st through December 1st each year. The Women Band Directors International will award scholarships of various amounts designed to salute the people for whom they are named and to support young women presently preparing to be band directors. These scholarships are:  

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Gladys Stone Wright

Ladies of the Podium

Volkwein Memorial

Martha Stark

Charlotte Owen

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2019 Scholarship Recipients

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Scholarship Chairperson Shannon Shaker, smshaker@frostburg.edu

Click below to view past recepients:

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Gladys Stone Wright Memorial Scholarship

Volkwein Memorial Scholarship

Martha Ann Stark Memorial Scholarship

Charlotte Plummer Owen Memorial Scholarship

Helen May Butler Memorial Scholarship

Kathryn Siphers Memorial Scholarship

Patricia Garren Scholarship in memory of Kathryn Siphers and Lorraine Parris

Paula Thornton Scholarship

Ladies of the Podium Scholarship in memory of Kathy Schmidt

Diane Gorzycki Memorial Scholarship

Barbara Lovett Memorial Scholarship

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