Stillwater Community Band | Oklahoma Musicians

The documented story

The current nonprofit documents its 1992 reorganization; city records independently document present public concerts. This supports the documented program or period only; earlier and later activity remains separately qualified.

People and leadership

The current nonprofit documents its 1992 reorganization

Community and organization

Stillwater Community Band is treated as a community or municipal band because the evidence ties it to Stillwater. Municipal ownership, public funding, and organizational continuity are not inferred from a town name alone.

Reading the evidence

The evidence for Stillwater Community Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Reorganized 1992–present; 1906 predecessor claim unproved as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology. Item 4 disposition integrated; remaining evidence limits are explicit.

Questions for further research

For Stillwater Community Band: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.

People named in related records

Names are retained as recorded in their source contexts.

Jim Luthye — member (1997)
Julie Luthye — member (1997)

Dated evidence in this record

1997
A 1997 Stillwater program names William L. Ballenger as conductor/director and Jim and Julie Luthye as members.
2004-05-15
An OSU Department of Music strategic-planning document named Stillwater Community Band as an existing community outreach and performance relationship in 2004.
2025
A City of Stillwater Senior Activity Center schedule lists a Stillwater Community Band performance on December 12, 2025.
2026
The City of Stillwater Parks Master Plan identifies Stillwater Community Band as a primary program partner associated with the community center.
2026
The current Stillwater Community Bands contact page presents Stillwater Community Band and Stillwater Big Band under the same organizational web presence.