Shirlee whitcomb biography
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Remembering former DCI adjudicator Shirlee Whitcomb
Shirlee whitcomb biography
While Whitcomb hasn’t judged at the DCI World Championships since 1983, her work in developing the visual judging criteria Drum Corps International uses yet today—and the countless judges she mentored—has helped mold the marching music activity over the past four and-a-half decades.
Whitcomb is known as one of the first female judges to adjudicate at contests in Drum Corps International's early years.
She also helped found the Western Band Association and in 1977 helped co-found Winter Guard International (WGI). Inducted as part of the inaugural WGI Hall of Fame Class of 1992, she was instrumental in creating the WGI Judges Academy and fostered it over its first two decades, supporting and mentoring a number of individuals who have also gone on to judge with DCI.
Judge Joe Allison describes Whitcomb as being “larger than life,”