Max Treier received his B.S. in Music Education degree in December 1962 from the Ohio State University. His first position as Band Director was held for four and a half years at Reynoldsburg Junior High School. In the summer of 1967, he moved his young family to Cambridge, Ohio, where he would hold the position of High School Band Director until the summer of 1997, when he retired. The Cambridge schools band program became respected throughout the State and beyond. The majority of the students received top ratings at Solo and Ensemble events, and the Symphony Band consistently received top ratings at the large group adjudicated events. They also performed at multiple OMEA State Conferences and ASBDA National Conventions. In December of 1974, they performed at the Midwest National Music Reading Clinic.

Max became a member of ASBDA in 1973. For most of his career, he was an active member of the OMEA Adjudications Committee and became the OMEA Adjudications Coordinator after he retired, a position he held for 17 years. He is now enjoying retirement and his family, which includes four great-grandchildren. He also continues to play Euphonium in the Worthington Civic Band.

The American School Band Directors Association created the Edwin Franko Goldman Award as a symbol of high esteem and respect and as a measure of appreciation and gratitude for outstanding personal contributions to the school band movement.

The recipient may or may not be a member of ASBDA, but shall be an active or retired director whose teaching career shall have included work in the schools and who has contributed substantially in the fields of Grade, Junior, and Senior High School Band work.