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About Tau Beta Sigma

The first practical idea for establishing a "band sorority" as a national entity to meet the expressed needs of the growing number of women in college and university bands was presented by band member Wava Banes (Henry), along with her classmates, Emily Surrell and Rosell Williams, to director D.O. Wiley of the Texas Tech University Band in the closing months of 1937.

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Our Purposes

To promote the existence and welfare of the collegiate bands and to create a respect and appreciation for band activities and achievements among the listening public everywhere.
To honor outstanding members of the band through privilege of membership, in the Sisterhood, extended the in recognition of musical achievement, demonstrated leadership, and an enthusiastic approach to band activities.
To develop leadership through active participation with the band and through it, to strengthen those traits of conduct, thought, and idealism which characterize the responsible membership of the band.
To encourage a close relationship between collegiate bands and promote a high average of attainments by the performance of good music and selection of worthwhile projects.
To provide a meaningful and worthwhile social experience for all engaged in collegiate band work, and to cooperate with other musical organizations and societies in every manner consistent with out mutual purposes and those of the institution at which chapter are located.

National Mission Statement

Tau Beta Sigma National Honorary Band Sorority provides service to collegiate bands, encourages the advancement of women in the band profession, and promotes and enriches an appreciation of band music through recognition, leadership development, and education of its members.

Vision Statement

To create the pre-eminent organization to promote band music as an integral part of the American cultural experience; and, to promote enrichment of the human experience through participation in and exposure to collegiate bands; and, to recognize deserving women and their contributions to these goals.

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Official Motto

Tau Beta Sigma for Greater Bands

Official Colors

White and Royal Blue

Official Flower

American Beauty Long Stemmed Red Rose

Five Qualities

Knowledge and development of your physical powers in the quest for good heath and bodily perfection.
Recognition and development of your intellectual potential.
Appreciation for and the maintenance of the highest moral standards.
Achievement of and the personification within you of lofty spiritual ideals.
Cultivation and maintenance of your emotional poise under all conditions.

Eight Essential Factors

Physical and mental qualities of an attractive nature.
Demonstrated loyalty and dependability to those persons and institutions deserving of it.
Truthfulness and honesty which instills a sense of trust in others.
A cheerfulness at all times and under all circumstances, even in the face of great trial.
A mutual interest in the Art of Music in its performance and in the aesthetic qualities it can project to others.
Generosity of mind, heart and hand.
Tolerance, tempered with kindness and a consideration for the needs of others.
Fortitude and courage to see an ideal, to seize upon it, and follow it wherever it may lead you in Tau Beta Sigma.

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