About
Crouse College, home of the Setnor School of Music.
Tau Beta Sigma 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.
What We Do
Eta Alpha is dedicated to serving the Syracuse University Band Program as well as the greater Syracuse community. Brothers and Sisters help coordinate the arrival of rookie and veteran members of the Syracuse University Marching Band at Band Camp each year, assisting in move-in, uniform distribution, camp dinners, and more. Eta Alpha participates in a number of service projects both on and off campus, hosts receptions after University Bands performances, actively fundraises for a number of music-related causes and charities, and awards a scholarship each spring to one graduating high school senior in the Syracuse Community.
Eta Alpha History
Dr. Robert Spradling
In the summer of 1980, Dr. Robert Spradling (from Florida State University) came to SU as the Director of the Syracuse University Marching Band. As a member of Kappa Kappa Psi and an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma, he suggested to the SUMB in 1981 that perhaps TBS and KKPsi would be great assets to the band program.
The Assistant Director of Bands at SU was David McCullough, and his wife Kathy had just finished earning degrees at West Virginia University. They made arrangements for brothers and sisters of WVU’s chapters of KKPsi and TBS to come talk to interested SU students about the two organizations. Delta Beta, the TBS chapter at WVU, became the big sister chapter to Eta Alpha.
On December 4, 1982, Tau Beta Sigma – Eta Alpha and Kappa Kappa Psi – Eta Phi were activated at Syracuse University.
Founding Sisters
Jennifer Beck
Debra Calef
Allison Mau
Heidi Neuffer
Lynda Powell
Gwen Seaholtz
Lillian Turco
Interested in the history of the Syracuse University Marching Band? Click here.
