The KMEA Hall of Fame section of the KMEA website has been missing most pictures and bios since the website was started. KMEA Historian Bryan Kirk devoted much time to preparing digital copies of these items from the former display boards. One particular problem that drove this change was the year-round location of the Hall of Fame boards. Friends University had provided permanent wall space for the display boards; however, it was in a hallway with west-facing windows. The photos of our Hall of Famers were fading away, slowly giving in to the effects of sunlight and time.

With this digital material, we now have a new Hall of Fame section on the KMEA website. To access the main page, go to www.ksmea.org/awards/hof.

All bios and photos are now located within the new Hall of Fame Gallery of Members located online at www.ksmea.org/hof.

In addition to the Gallery mentioned above, we also have a new display version which was used as digital signage at the Century II Convention Center during the 2014 In-Service Workshop. This display pulled "live" data from our web server, including events from the ISW schedule, as well as an announcement marquee scrolling along the bottom which contained pre-programmed content.

Century II Convention Center recently installed a new digital signage system with display screens positioned in four different locations of the facility. KMEA was able to make use of two locations in our inaugural use of this system, those being in the circle hall next to the WichitaTix box office as well as a dual-display located in the Concert Hall entrance foyer.

Century II attempted to boot up display screens in the Concert Hall lobby areas, but there was a problem with the system channels which prevented the display from coming online in those locations. It is our understanding that Century II will be expanding this system to cover more areas within the facility, so we hope to take advantage of that capability in 2015.

Below is a smaller version of the digital signage display. There are 102 Hall of Fame profiles, with each slide currently set at increments of 18 seconds for a full run-time of 30m:36s. These profiles contain short bios due to space constraints. To read the full bios, visit the Hall of Fame on the KMEA website, linked above.

Anyone interested in setting up a "live" KMEA Hall of Fame display at their own school or music event is invited to contact me at the email address above for set-up instructions.