2007 Winners
34th International
Whistlers Convention

International Male Grand Champions

• 1st Place:  Terry Rappold, Harahan, Louisiana, USA
• 2nd Place:  Shinichi Urushihara, Ushiku Ibaraki, Japan
• 3rd Place:  Steven Herbst, NewYork City, New York, USA

International Female Grand Champions

• 1st Place:  Kimiko Wakiyama, Higashiyamato City, Tokyo, Japan
• 2nd Place:  Patricia Sonnier, Mount Juliet, Tennessee, USA
• 3rd Place:  Carole Kaufman, Pasadena, CA

Teenage Male Champions

• 1st Place:   Takumi Gima, Osaka Sayama City, Osaka, Japan
• 2nd Place:  Todd Dickerson, Hickory, NC, USA
• 3rd Place:  Dean DeChiaro, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

Teenage Female Champions

• 1st Place:  Emily Edwards, Zebulon, North Carolina, USA
• 2nd Place:  Alysha Wonka, Louisburg, North Carolina, USA
• 3rd Place:   --- None ---

Children's Champions

• 1st Place:  Chihaya Kosugiyama, Toyonaka Hotarugaike, Japan
• 2nd Place:  Paula Edwards, Zebulon, North Carolina, USA
• 3rd Place:  Cassidy Osgood, Louisburg, North Carolina, USA

Allied Arts:  Adult Males

• 1st Place:  Mike Cooney (with wife Pat), Edmonton, AB, Canada
• 2nd Place:  Clarence Gary Phifer (with partner Sandra Henzler), Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Allied Arts:  Adult Females

• 1st Place:  Carole Kaufman, Pasadena, CA
• 2nd Place:  Massae (Cristina) Toyohashi, Minuma-Ku, Saitama, Japan

Allied Arts:  Teens

• 1st Place:  Todd Dickerson, Hickory, NC, USA
• 2nd Place:  Dean DeChiaro, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA

2007 Whistlers' Hall of Fame Award

• Steven Herbst, New York City, NY, USA

Lillian Williams Entertainment Award

• Tom Bryant, Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA
• Phyllis Heil, Hickory, North Carolina, USA

Honorary Citizens' Award (From the Town of Louisburg)

• Ben Bramble, Glanbrook, NSW, Australia