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District 10 Awards
Announcing the 2010 Citation of Excellence for District 10 PMEA The PMEA State Office in Hamburg has approved the nomination of Mr. L. Rick Hilborn as the 2010 recipient of the Citation of Excellence for District 10. Rick began his teaching career in 1984 at his alma mater, L. E. Dieruff High School in Allentown, PA. In 1988 Rick was appointed director of bands at Whitehall High School. His responsibilities there included concert band, wind ensemble, marching band, jazz band, pit orchestra, percussion ensemble and four levels of music theory classes. Many of you know Rick for the fine job he did as District 10's president from 2007 to 2009, and the fact that he is now the audition chairman for instrumental auditions for District 10. What you may not know is the extensive series of appearances his percussion ensembles achieved during his tenure at Whitehall High School. The Whitehall High School Percussion Ensemble was selected to perform at PMEA state conferences on five different occasions. In 1994 they were chosen to perform at the BOA national conference. Their crowning achievement was selection to perform at the 1996 MENC National Convention in Kansas City, MO. This is a singular achievement for a high school ensemble in our area and to my knowledge has not been duplicated by any other high school ensemble in PMEA District 10. While this group included virtually all of the concert band percussionists, nearly half the membership of his percussion ensembles were primarily woodwind & brass students. Rick ended his 25-year high
school teaching career upon his assignment in 2009 to instrumental
instruction at Zephyr Elementary School, also in the Whitehall-Coplay
School District. He currently teaches over 200 instrumental students
in Grades 4, 5 & 6 and also classroom general music. Lucky,
indeed, are the directors who will inherit his students as they
move through Whitehall's music program!
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