At the time, she expected to become a band director.
John Stein has served as the head of the music department and band director since 2004.
He was, therefore, the first band director to do this on an American campus.
He was a pretty good band director and a world-class human being.
All a high school band director had to do was return an application card.
At least a dozen of his former students became music teachers or band directors, he said.
Now, he and his wife, the assistant band director, live a couple of blocks from the school.
He was also the first band director at an American university to hold a position of full professorship.
The school music catalog for band directors continued as well.
He was the first band director at that school.