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SDPB Television Broadcast April 21, 2004 at 8p.m. CDT

4-Year All-State Band participants

Katherine Hartley, Pierre T.F. Riggs – Flute
Leah Olson, Canton – Flute
Keeley MacNeill, Spearfish – Oboe
Daniel P. Graber, Freeman Academy – Clarinet
Jenn Anderson, Madison – Clarinet
Alishia Salmen, Madison – Clarinet
Carrie Ostraat, Canton – Clarinet
Elizabeth Hoarty, Wessington Springs – Bass Clarinet
Mary Peterson, Pierre T.F. Riggs – Bass Clarinet
Eric Sorenson, Sioux Falls Lincoln – Trumpet
Melanie Downs, Rapid City Stevens – Horn
Aubrey Weger, Huron – Horn
John Bergan, Madison - Horn

Betty Boepple Mudder is a graduate of Avon High School and Yankton College where she participated in music activities and graduated with a Bachelor of Music Degree.

Betty has been a Band Director for thirty five of the thirty seven years that she taught music education. She taught for five years at Baltic High School and thirty-two years at Freeman High School .  She was the first full time band director at Baltic and one of the first female band directors in South Dakota .  The Baltic Band received a superior rating three years at the Region II Large Group Contest while she directed.  Also, while at Baltic, Betty served as a member of the Region II Music Committee.

Betty directed the Freeman High School Band for thirty years.  Under her direction, the Band received a superior rating twenty-seven times in the Region I Large Group Contests.  During the thirty years of her directing the Freeman Band, many students received superior ratings at the Region I Small Ensemble and Solo Contests.  There have been one or more of her students in the South Dakota All-State Band twenty-seven of the thirty years that she was the director.  The first year that she directed, Freeman had its first student in All-State Band.  There have been a total of seventy-one students from Freeman High School with five students in the 1975 and the 1987 All-State Bands.  In 1975, Freeman had three first chair members in their All-State Band sections, Bassoon, Tenor Saxophone and Tuba.  Other honors for members of her bands were: one in the McDonalds All American Band and six in the John Philip Sousa Band where one student was first chair Trumpet.

Betty took the Freeman Band to Disney World in 1985, 1991 and 1993 and each time they lead the Magic Kingdom Parade.  Two superior ratings were received at the All American Music Festival in Orlando , Florida .

Her Band performed two times for the South Dakota Music In-Service Convention at South Dakota State University .

Other local and in state-wide activities included performing at the South Dakota State Fair numerous times, a superior rating in parade competition at the Sioux Falls Festival of Bands and first place in their class at the Hobo Day Parade.  The band played for many District and Regional and two State Basketball Tournaments.

Betty was one of the pioneer women band directors in South Dakota .  Awards that she has received were in 1986, the first woman to receive the South Dakota Outstanding Bandmaster Award and in 1995 she received the Phi Beta Mu Distinguished Service Award for someone who as made a consistent and significant contribution to instrumental music in South Dakota for ten or more years.

She has been a member of the South Dakota Bandmaster, MENC, ACDA and Phi Beta Mu for which she was the secretary-treasurer for seventeen years.