In 1976-77 he was adjunct director of the Iowa State University Jazz Ensemble, Ames, Iowa.  His Des Moines Hoover Jazz Band was chosen four times as Honor Band to perform at the annual Iowa Bandmasters Convention.  From 1976-85 the Hoover Jazz Band placed 1st four times, 2nd four times, 3rd once and 4th once in the Iowa Jazz Championships. Mr. Battani is co-founder of the IJC.  The 1976 Hoover Jazz Band (the La Festa Band) won the "National Maynard Ferguson Sound-Alike" Contest.

In 1966, Mr. Bauman accepted a position at Burton R. Jones Jr. High School in Creston and started a jazz program that fall. Over the next 10 years, this band won or placed in every festival it entered and, in 1969, Dick reestablished the Creston Jazz Festival.

In 1976 he became Director of Instrumental Music at Southwestern Community College and developed a full two-year curriculum for music majors. The Creston Jazz Festival became the SWCC Jazz Festival and served as the Southwest District Jazz Festival. The Southwestern Community College Jazz Ensemble performed at the Wichita and University of Northern Colorado Jazz Festivals as well as the Iowa Bandmasters Convention. Dick believed that it was important to sponsor quality jazz artists for young musicians to hear. Many jazz educators can remember taking students to the clinic/concerts by the big bands of Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Gerry Mulligan, Maynard Ferguson, Count Basic, Tommy Dorsey, and Dick's personal favorite, the Stan Kenton Orchestra.

Mr. Bauman has served on the staff of several summer jazz camps and started the SWCC Summer Jazz Camp in 1984. He has adjudicated numerous jazz festivals throughout the United States and is one of the few educators that has directed an Iowa All-State High School Jazz Band and the Iowa College All-Star Jazz Ensemble. In addition, Dick has served as president of the Iowa Jazz Educators Association, president of the Southwest Iowa Bandmasters Association, and has played trombone professionally since he was 16 years old.

Jim received his Masters degree in 1964 and after joining the faculty he instituted both the jazz and percussion programs at UNI.  UNI Jazz Band I began touring Iowa high schools to attract students to the program and won their first major competition at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire.  They were the first university jazz band west of the Mississippi to perform at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival and in 1972 won the Collegiate Mid-west competition resulting in a festival performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.  An all-star band was selected from the big bands and combos at the festival and Jazz Band I had four of its members so honored and received a gold mic from Stan Kenton.  The list of artists that performed with the band included Clark Terry, Sonny Stitt, Marvin Stamm, Dan Haerle, Lou Marini, Jr, and Rich Matteson.

Jazz Band I was among the first university jazz organizations to play at an MENC conference.  Also among their credits was a 30-minute TV program produced by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the Kansas City Jazz Festival, Ohio River Arts Festival, and a five-day stint as a resident jazz band at the University of Minnesota.

In 1972, Jim left UNI and joined the Selmer Company where he was the marketing, education and artists relations manager for Premier Drums.  Ten years later, he joined the Yamaha Corporation and was responsible for the development and marketing of their percussion products.

In 1981 and 1982 Crandell served as president of the Iowa Band Masters' Association.

Crandell devoted 36 years to teaching students the art of music; 23 of those years were spent at Storm Lake High School, where he retired in 1996.

Before heading to Storm Lake in 1972, Crandell was band director in Marcus, Iowa, for seven years and Wahoo, Neb.

His influence as a musician touched many students as well as his family.  Son Chris Crandell and daughter Mary Garrels both became band directors.

Through the years Crandell was a member of numerous musical groups. He remained a part of the Dick Bauman Big Band, which played Monday nights Memorial Day to Labor Day in Okoboji, Iowa.

During his tenure as a high school music educator at Seymour, Washington, Roosevelt, and Valley High Schools, his jazz bands were known for their outstanding quality. Bands under his direction have appeared at the Mid-West Band Clinic in Chicago, the National Band Conference in Knoxville, Tennessee, the Iowa Bandmasters Convention, the Iowa Music Educators Convention, the Montreaux International Jazz Festival in Switzerland, and received a "DB" award from Downbeat magazine for outstanding high school jazz ensemble. The Valley High School Jazz Ensemble under his direction received numerous awards including first place at the Jazz Championships in Class 4A on 7 occasions, six of those in consecutive years from 1982-1987 and again in 1989.

He is a member of the Iowa Bandmasters Association, jazz chairman for the National Band Association, a member of the Leadership and Advocacy Committee for the International Association of Jazz Educators, presently the district manager for United Musical Instruments, U.S.A., and coordinator of the Court Avenue "Evening of Jazz".

Jack relocated to Jefferson, Iowa in 1966 and started one of the first jazz festivals that invited jazz artists such as Clark Terry, Bud Shank, Urbie Green, Joe Farrell, Marvin Stamm, Bill Chase, and Arnie Lawrence as guest soloists.  Clark Terry said the Jefferson Jazz Band was the first school jazz band he performed with and "they played just like the professionals."  The Jefferson Jazz Band received many honors under Jack's direction including 1st place at the 1981 Iowa Jazz Championships and guest performing band at the prestigious Wichita Jazz Festival.

Peterson's public school career began in northwest Iowa at Havelock-Plover Schools.  During the one year that Mr. Peterson taught at H-P, the first jazz band was formed and performed at several local events.  Mr. Peterson moved to North Polk schools after one year where he started a jazz band and a jazz choir.  These groups were the main part of the fund-raising variety show that was produced each year.  The jazz band participated in numerous events in the school and community.  In 1968, Mr. Peterson moved to Knoxville, Iowa where he began a third jazz band. This band traveled to the first SCIBA-Miller Music Co. jazz festival at North High School in Des Moines in 1969.  In the following years, the jazz band from Knovville became a regular on the competing jazz band circuit and developed into a trophy winning band in 1972.  In1974, Dan Peterson became the band director at West Des Moines Valley High School.  Mr. Peterson changed the "show band" of the previous director into a Jazz Band and immediately became competitive in the jazz competition scene.  The band remained active as a competition band, as a performer in the community and as the "house band" for the Girls State Basketball Tournament televised games on Friday and Saturday night of Championship Week.

Dan Peterson, director at Valley in West Des Moines; Ron Battani, director at Hoover High School in Des Moines began the Iowa Jazz Championships in 1976. The Valley Bands under Dan Peterson's direction finished third in the 1976 Championships and 2nd in the 1977and 1978 Championships.

In addition to his full-time teaching career, Mr. Schive was the conductor and musical arranger of the Fort Dodge Civic Glee Club and Orchestra from 1958 to 1985.

As a ninth grader in high school, in 1946, Reg was invited by Mr. Karl L. King to join the clarinet section of the "King Band" of Fort Dodge.  He played in the band until 1978, when he became the conductor for another 25 years of service.  In 1993, he received the Karl L. King Distinguished Service Award from the Iowa Bandmasters Association.

Reg was inducted into the Iowa Jazz Educators Hall of Fame. He considered it his most significant distinction.

He was a member of numerous musical and educational organizations.  Reg played as a professional musician.  He also appeared as guest soloist, clinician and adjudicator in several states.  He played with such notables as Clark Terry, Dick Oatts, Arnie Lawerence and Eddie Daniels and was a member of the Sioux City Jazz Orchestra.

As a member of Morningside Lutheran Church, he enjoyed sharing his talents in solos, choir, Jubilation and church orchestra.

He holds music degrees from two Iowa institutions: Morningside College in Sioux City, and Drake University in Des Moines.  Following eight years of directing bands in the public schools, he taught bands, trumpet, and conducting at Morningside College from 1971-1982.  During his tenure at Morningside he founded and hosted the Tri-State Jazz Festival, which was destined to become the largest in the mid-west. He was elected to the Iowa Jazz Educators Hall of Fame in April of 2002.

Gary has two grown children, four grandkids, and a lovely wife, Anne, who owns her own music copying service in Austin.  Free time is spent playing tennis and boating on nearby Lake Travis.

During his 22 years as director of the award-winning UNI Jazz Band One, Washut recorded 11 CDs (two of which earned 5-star ratings from DownBeat magazine), toured Europe three times, consistently received "Outstanding Band" recognition at collegiate jazz festivals throughout the Midwest, and was awarded three "Outstanding Performance" citations in DownBeat's Annual Student Music Awards.

He is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the country and is an active jazz pianist, who founded the Latin jazz band, Orquesta Alto Maiz.  He recorded and released a jazz trio CD entitled Songbook ( Sea Breeze Jazz : SB-3036) in 1999.  Washut was inducted into the Iowa IAJE Hall of Fame in 2003 and was selected as Outstanding Teacher at UNI in 1996.