Band Activites Band Directors during the College years Mark Kelly remained Director of Bands for the remainder of the Kennedy years and throughout the Glidden, Wendrich, and Thayer years, f ina lly retiring in 1993, early in R iggins’ term of off ice. He was succeeded in 1994 by Bruce Moss, who has remained Director of Bands since then. Bruce Moss received a B.S. and an M.S. in Music Education from the Universit y of Illinois. Immediately af ter completing his undergraduate degree, Moss became director of bands at York Communit y High School (19761987). While still at York, he began a long and fruitful relationship with the Wheaton Municipa l Band in Wheaton IL (1980-present). Moss lef t York in 1987 to pursue a Ph.D. at Ohio State Universit y, which he completed win 1989 with the dissertation “Differentia l Approaches to Rehearsing and Conducting an Instrumenta l Ensemble.”1 For one Bruce Moss year, 1989-90, Moss was Director of Bands at St. Cloud Universit y, St. Cloud MN, and held the same position at Eastern Illinois Universit y in Charleston Illinois (1990-94) before coming to Bowling Green. Both Kelly and Moss have had a string of Assistant or Associate Band Directors. The following is a list of the twelve assistant band directors who ser ved from the late Kennedy years to the present.
1 Moss, Bruce Burbank. “Differential Approaches to Rehearsing and Conducting an Instrumental Ensemble.” Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1989. 216