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Pam Potter was named Music Director and Conductor of the Quincy Park
Band in 1993, the second director in the Pam is Director of Bands and Chair of the Music Department at Quincy Notre Dame High School, and has been an adjunct instructor of woodwinds at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri. She is a well-known guest conductor of bands and music festivals in addition to being an accomplished clarinetist. She conducted the Mississippi River Brass Band to Second Place in Honors and Championship Divisions of the North American Brass Band Association, and performs with the Quincy Symphony Orchestra, and the Quincy Area All-Star Clarinet Choir. Pam is a past president of the National Catholic Band Association, and was Chair of the North American Band Directors Coordinating Council in 1985 Her awards include the 2004 "Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award" from the Illinois Humanities Council, the Kappa Kappa Psi "Silver Baton Award" 2010, National Catholic Band Association’s “Charles R. Winking Award” for outstanding contributions to the field of wind band conducting; "Notre Dame Band Alumni Award"; "YWCA Women of Achievement Award in Education"; Quincy University “Charles Winking Memorial Award”; National Catholic Band Association “Adam Lesinsky Award” in recognition for outstanding service to music education; and she was featured in THE SCHOOL MUSICIAN magazine - January 1986.
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band’s
62 year history.
Under her leadership, the Park Band has received numerous grants and
was awarded the 1998 City of Quincy Arts Organization Award
for having made a substantial impact on the cultural development of the
community. The Park Band was selected to perform for President
Clinton on his visit to Quincy in January of 2000. In June of
2004, the band performed at the World War II Memorial and the U.S. Navy Memorial
in Washington, D.C. and hosted the Association of Concert Bands
National Convention in 2005