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\n\n\n\n2025 Outstanding Bandmaster \u2013 Steve Gordon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\nSteve Gordon attended the University of Kansas for his bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in Music Education. He taught twelve years in public schools at Ellinwood, Olathe, Caney and Coffeyville, Kansas prior to coming to Maranatha Academy in 1991, where he has taught Bands and HS Vocal Music for 34 years.\u202fIn 2015, he received Teacher of the Year awards from both the Kansas Association of Independent and Religious Schools and the Shawnee Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was named Maranatha Christian Academy Teacher of the Year in 2021, and the Great Plains Alliance of Christian Schools Teacher of the Year in 2022.\u202fHe directed the Kansas Lions Band in 1991 and has served as district representative to the State Executive Board of K.B.A., Secretary of the K.B.A. State Board, K.M.E.A.Southeast District Honor Band chair, Southeast District President-elect, Northeast District honor band chair, and he founded the Great Plains Regional Honor Band and Choir for the Association of Christian Schools International in 1996. He has served on the KSHSAA Contest Rules Committee, and his writings have been published in \u201cThe Instrumentalist\u201d and the \u201cKansas Music Review\u201d. His Bands have performed at KMEA ISW three times, and both Bands and Choirs have received superior ratings at State Festivals for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nPast Recipients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
2024 Will Cooper<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2023 Don Buhler<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2022 Dennis Kerr<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2021 Randy Crow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2020 John Cisetti<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2019 Avian Bear<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2018 Dean M. (Mike) Connell<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2017 David Will<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2016 David Beckham, Sr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2015 Bryce Luty<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2014 Dana Hamant<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2013 Johannah Cox<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2012 John Taylor<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2011 Ray James<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2010 Marion Roberts<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2009 Don Farthing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2008 Walter “Bud” Meisel<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2007 Clifford Manning<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2006 Gayle McMillen<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2005 Bill Clausing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2004 Larry Blocher<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2003 Melvin “Bud” Schuette<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2003 Tom Stidham<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2002 Victor A. Markovich<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2002 Frank Tracz<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2001 Joseph Ray Boley<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2000 Jerry Stone<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1999 Larry Norvell<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1998 Glen Goering<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1997 Robert E. Lee II<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1996 Wendell Hicks<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1995 Richard Strange<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1994 James Kerry<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1994 Berle Willis<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1993 Stan Fink<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1992 Gary Fletcher<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1991 David Stuewe<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1990 Gary Corcoran<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1989 Donald Corbett<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1988 Robert E. Foster<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1987 J.B. Webster<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1986 William Lilly<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1985 Les Sperling<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1984 Ed Craig<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1983 William Beck<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1982 Robert Hollowell<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1981 Kenneth Thompson<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1980 Elmer Snell<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1979 Wendll Hodges<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1978 Clarence Sawhill<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1977 Lyle Dilley<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1976 Hal Palmer<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1975 Russell Wiley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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