John J. Haynie reunion	September 14 00

John J. Haynie with celebration organizer Melvin Gordy Haynie Y2K Celebration Former students, colleagues and friends of UNT Trumpet Professor Emeritus, John J. Haynie, convened for a Y2K celebration in honor of the their beloved and respected mentor on June 9-11 2000 in Denton, Texas. During the course of his forty years of continuous service the University of North Texas (formerly North Texas State University) Haynie established the UNT program as one of the premiere trumpet programs in the United States. The Haynie Y2K celebration coincided with Haynie's 75th birthday year. More than sixty people attended the two-day celebration, organized by Melvin Gordy and the third meeting of this kind to take place since 1988. Former Haynie students traveled from New York, Florida, California, and many other states and locales in Texas to renew friendships which began nearly 50 years ago. Haynie's teaching career at UNT spanned four decades and the majority of attendees for the celebration were of the 1950's vintage. Many of those in attendance have established themselves as influential and successful members of the trumpet playing and teaching profession. Among those attending were: Marvin Stamm, jazz soloist, educator and clinician; Don Owen, Professor from the University of South Florida and member of the Florida Symphony; Bob Ferguson, retired trumpet section leader of the U.S. Army Band; R. Dale Olson, brass researcher and instrument design consultant for F. E. Olds Company and Kanstul trumpets; Lyda Beasely, euphonium virtuoso and public school band director; Robert Morgan, director of the jazz program at the Houston School for the Performing and Visual Arts; Charlotte Tull, pianist and widow of composer and Haynie student, Fisher Tull; and several dozen more Haynie loyalists who enthusiastically attended the various events comprising the celebration. A Friday evening cocktail reception and reunion at the Radisson Hotel commenced the celebration, followed the next morning by a round of golf. A tour of the new Murchison Performing Arts Center at the University of North Texas preceded an evening dinner and storytelling session. Such recollections of shared experiences, revisited in the best spirit of nostalgia by long time friends whose individual and collective spirits are not diminished by time or distance, are the stuff that continues to bind together the former students of John Haynie. These recollections offer unmistakable testimony to the special human qualities Professor Haynie has embodied to this day. Source: Leonard Candelaria

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