IN MEMORIUM JOE DAVID
BILL HAYNES
Joe David, retired band director at Cairo High School, passed away after an extended battle with cancer. Joe was well loved and respected by many friends for his willingness to share his musical talents and mentor young directors. He was also highly sought after as an adjudicator and clinician. Joining the band program in the 5th grade, Joe entered the band program much like thousands of other youngsters. It wasn’t until he became a member of the Washington-Wilkes High School Band that he began to take music seriously and started to show his musical ability. The catalyst for his transformation came when Major Billy Verran’s Cairo High School Band stopped to perform at Washington-Wilkes as a part of their annual spring tour. Joe was so inspired by their performance that he decided to become a band director. Little did he know that years later, he would become the director at Cairo High School. Joe went on to Georgia Southern University to earn his bachelor degree and move on to his first job in Hardeeville, South Carolina. After 4 years of developing his teaching skills, Joe moved on to teach a year at Wilkes Academy and then two years at Doughtery Junior High School in Albany, before taking the reins of the Cairo HS Band in 1972. Under his direction, the Cairo Band became well-known for superior ratings at LGPE and outstanding marching band performances. In 2007, Joe was inducted into the Phi Beta Mu Georgia Bandmasters Hall of Fame and was presented the GMEA Distinguished Career Award. Joe and his wife, Lisa, had three sons, all of whom chose music education as their careers.
We regret to announce the passing of Bill Haynes, the music and drama teacher at E. Rivers Elementary in the Atlanta Public Schools. Bill was the victim a carjacking incident in Sandy Springs, during the Christmas Holiday Break. He was formerly the band director at Hardaway High School in Columbus, and had also directed the band at Ohio County High School and Greenville High School, both in Kentucky. Bill was the founding director of the Centennial High School Band in Roswell, Georgia, and also the conductor of the Alpharetta City Band. Bill was born in 1963, in Bowling Green, Kentucky and began developing his love of music at the age of 12, when his band director gave him an old, battered baritone horn to take home and play. When he was a freshman in the Bowling Green High School Band, Bill was allowed to go with them to Europe, where they performed in several European cities. His high school band experiences inspired Bill to major in music at Western Kentucky University and after launching a successful teaching career, he went on to earn his MMEd at FSU. Bill soon learned that in addition to teaching, he had a talent for arranging all kinds of music and for writing marching band drills. He combined these with his love for technology and produced many fine musical arrangements and marching shows for bands in Georgia, Kentucky, and Ohio. Bill was a kind and gentle man with many friends and colleagues that will miss him.
After his retirement from Cairo, Joe continued teaching at Georgia Southern University and Columbus State University. “Poppa Joe,” as he was affectionately called will be greatly missed by his family, his friends, and the Cairo Community.
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georgia music news // spring 2017
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