Musicians

2007-2008 Midwest Winds Personnel

Guest Artists

♫♫ 2006-2007 Concert Season

George Farmer, Composer (photo at right)

Oxford Middle School Eighth Grade Symphonic Band
Gerald Gipson, Conductor

♫♫ 2005-2006 Concert Season

Paul Hartfield, Tenor

Presbyterian Church of Stanley Chancel Choir

Blue Valley West High School Wind Symphony

♫♫ 2004-2005 Concert Season

Paul Hartfield, Tenor

Robyn Hartfield, Soprano

Allegro Community Children's Choir
Christy Elsner, Conductor

After Hours Community Band
Carol Commerford and Sandra Stoeckel, Conductors

♫♫ 2003-2004 Concert Season

Andrew Glover, Guest Conductor

University of North Dakota, The Wind Ensemble
Dr. James Popejoy, Conductor

Paul Hartfield, Tenor (photo at left)

Robyn Hartfield, Soprano

Allegro Community Children's Choir
Christy Elsner, Conductor

The Wichita Wind Ensembles Advanced Band
The Wichita Wind Ensembles Advanced Percussion Ensembles
Dr. John W. Taylor, Conductor

♫♫ 2002-2003 Concert Season

Paul Hartfield, Tenor

Allegro Community Children's Choir
Christy Elsner, Conductor

Polo R-7 High School Band
Ken Eberhart, Director

Michael Herrara, Alto Saxophonist

Band Director Salute

Great band directors do more than encourage musical proficiency. They inspire individuals to give their best in everything they do, never settling for a second-best performance. A great band director’s influence lasts a lifetime, creating a model for musicianship—and citizenship.

As a tribute to outstanding band directors, and other instrumental music teachers, Midwest Winds has created a “Band Director Salute” to honor those individuals who have contributed to their communities and inspired young people to strive for excellence throughout their lives.

Midwest Winds is pleased to honor its Band Director Salute Recipients:

   ♫♫  Herman Rekittke (2007)

   ♫♫  Bary Hartman (2006)

   ♫♫  Bill Maupin (2005)

   ♫♫ DeRoy Rogge (2004)

    HERMAN REKITTKE was born in Waite Hill Village, Ohio in a house provided for farm hands.  When he was nine years old, an aunt gave him an old metal clarinet.  While in high school he was accepted as a member of the local VFW Military Concert and Marching Band.  The band received numerous state and national honors, including National Championships in Dallas, Chicago, and Atlantic City.  Mr. Rekittke attended Northeast Missouri State Teachers College in Kirksville, Missouri (now Truman State) and received a Bachelor of Science in Education degree.  After two years of teaching instrumental and vocal music in Gallatin, Missouri's elementary, junior high, and high schools, he entered graduate school at Central Missouri State University and received a Master of Arts in Music Performance degree.

Mr. Rekittke taught strings and band for a year in North Kansas City, Missouri, then left and became the Associate Director of the Park Hill band program working with Mr. William G. Mack.  While at Park Hill his junior high band performed at the SW Division MENC Conference and Clinic and his high school band performed at the Missouri Music Educators Association Conference and Clinic.  During his tenure in Park Hill, Mr. Rekittke was elected Band Vice President of MMEA and President of the Missouri Bandmasters Association.  Mr. Rekittke also taught for 12 years in Lee's Summit, working with Mr. Jim Oliver.  He retired after 30-year career of teaching in Missouri and worked for a year as a car salesman and music store "roadie."  Mr. Rekittke then returned to teaching at Olathe North High School, working with Ms. Janelle Brower.  After five fun and rewarding years in Olathe, Mr. Rekittke tried retirement again, but it was not to be.  The position of Woodwind Specialist for the Kansas City, Kansas School District, working with Ms. Jean Ney and the district string and band staff, became a fortuitous and enjoyable career finale.

    BARY HARTMAN is in his thirty-sixth year of teaching, of which the last eleven years have been in the Blue Valley School District.  He received the Associate of Arts degree from Graceland University and the BME and MA degrees from Central Missouri State University.  His Specialist degree work in Music Education and Administration was also from CMSU.  He has done extensive work on the DMA in Music Education and Conducting at the UMKC Conservatory of Music.

In addition to conducting bands on two European tours, Mr. Hartman has appeared as Conductor/Performer at eight state Music Educators Conferences.  In 1991 he served on the staff of the John Philip Sousa National Honors Band in Washington D.C.  From 1992-1995 he was the Music Director and Conductor of the Raytown Community Band.  Mr. Hartman served five years as Associate Conductor and Conductor of the Western Missouri British Brass Band and has recently completed a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the North American Brass Band Association.

In 2004 Mr. Hartman received the Sunflower Award from the Blue Valley Educational Foundation for living the Blue Valley Virtues: Respect, Responsibility, Honesty, Self-discipline, Compassion, Courage, and Perseverance.

Professional affiliations include Phi Mu Alpha, Phi Beta Mu, KMEA, KBA, NEA, and NABBA.  Mr. Hartman and his wife Lynn have two children and answer to "Schrampa and Grandma," which is how their grandchildren Kailynn, Collin, and Madalyn refer to them.  Their daughter Susan is the lead fifth grade teacher at Robinson Elementary in Raytown, and their son Brian is Director of Choral Activities at Lee's Summit West High School.
 

    CHARLES W. (BILL) MAUPIN is a native of Carrollton, Missouri and a graduate of Carrollton High School. He received his B. S. and Masters degrees from the University of Missouri at Columbia and has done additional graduate work throughout the country. Mr. Maupin was director of music at Braymer C- 4 Public Schools for three years and was an instrumental music teacher in the Chillicothe R-2 School System for thirty years. He also served as Chairman of the Music Department for twenty-seven years. His middle school and senior high bands have appeared a number of times for the Missouri Music Educators Association Conference/Clinic.

Mr. Maupin has held many state and regional-level leadership positions, including State Band Vice-President (1976-78), Vice-President/President Elect (1978-80), and State President (1980-82) for the Missouri Music Educators Association; Chairperson for Retired Music Teachers (four terms); and Executive Secretary of the North Central Missouri Bandmasters Association (twenty-nine years). Mr. Maupin has also held civic leadership positions, including President of the Chillicothe Kiwanis Club, President of the Chillicothe Fine Arts Council (three terms), Co-Chairman of the Chillicothe Bi-Centennial Committee. At the First Christian Church, he has served as Board Moderator (two terms), Director of the Chancel Choir (twenty-five years), and an Elder (present).

He has been on the Director's staff, Summer Music Camps, at Northwest Missouri State University, Truman State University, Tarkio College, and the University of Kansas. He serves as contest judge and clinician throughout Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Arkansas, and Alaska. He has conducted many conference, regional, and all-district bands. For several years he was a performing member of The Boone County Bassoon Band, and he currently performs with the Chillicothe Orchestral Ensemble and the Marshall, Missouri Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mr. Maupin has received numerous awards, such as the Chillicothe Jaycees Outstanding Young Educator Award (1976), the Bell Telephone "Silver Baton Award" for outstanding community service (1981), and Chillicothe R-2 Teacher of the Year (1994). In 1995 he was inducted into the Missouri Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame and in 1999 he was inducted into the Missouri Music Educators Hall of Fame. His professional affiliations include MSTA, MMEA, MENC, RTA, MBA, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Phi Beta Mu, and Phi Beta Kappa. He is also a member of the Tribe of Mic-o-say.

Mr. Maupin resides in Chillicothe, Missouri. His wife of 43 years, Marsha, was a fourth grade teacher and also taught elementary art. They are the parents of three children, Julie McCoy, and Jeff and Wade Maupin. He has five granddaughters, Emily, Heidi, and Maggie McCoy, and Mollie and Hannah Maupin, as well as three grandsons, Matthew and Brett Maupin and Austin Bates. And he has two adopted grandchildren- Austin and Faith Kelly. He enjoys sports, listening to music, refinishing work, antiques, and spending time with his family.
 

    DEROY ROGGE was born and raised in rural Nemaha County, near Auburn, Nebraska.  He attended a one-room country school from the first through the eighth grade.  At Auburn High School he participated in band, choir, small instrumental and vocal ensembles, as well as performing vocal and baritone horn solos.  Ralph Chatelin was his high school band director.  DeRoy graduated from Auburn High School in 1952.

In 1952, DeRoy attended Midwestern Music & Art Camp at the University of Kansas (KU), playing first chair baritone horn in the concert band and singing tenor in the choir.  KU Director of Bands, Russell Wiley, persuaded DeRoy to enroll at KU, where he majored in Music Education and played first chair baritone horn in concert and marching bands for three years.  DeRoy was a featured soloist with the band in concert and on tour in 1953 and 1955.  Don Schaffer and Claude T. Smith, both former band directors at Center High School, were participants in the KU band at the same time.

DeRoy graduated from KU with a Bachelor of Music Education (BME) in 1956 and married his college sweetheart, Sharon Stewart, in June of that same year.  In 1965 he earned a Masters of Science in Music Education (MSME) from Emporia State University.  Mr. Rogge taught for 32 years in Kansas and Missouri public schools, including:

• 1956-58........Waterville, Kansas - All instrumental and vocal music

• 1958-62........Ellis, Kansas - Instrumental music in grades 5-12 and vocal music in grades 7-12

• 1962-67........Marysville, Kansas - Instrumental music in grades 5-12

• 1967-88........C.S.D. #1 Hickman Mills, Kansas City, Missouri - Instrumental music in grades 5-9

The Rogges current reside in Raymore, Missouri.  They have two children, Michele Janes and Craig Rogge, both of Raymore, and four grandchildren.