[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 143 (Thursday, September 14, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1787]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


           TRIBUTE TO ALABAMA'S BANDMASTER, DR. JOHN M. LONG

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                           HON. TERRY EVERETT

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 14, 1995
  Mr. EVERETT. Mr. Speaker, Alabama's beloved bandmaster, Dr. Johnny 
Long, retires this year after three decades as director of bands at 
Troy State University, Troy, AL. Instead of resting on his laurels, 
Johnny Long has always looked to the next goal and achieved it. This 
motto has served him well throughout his career as I'm sure it will in 
retirement.
  His numerous achievements include past president of the prestigious 
American Bandmasters Association, and recipient of the 1994 Sudler 
Medal of Honor from the Sousa Foundation for this many contributions to 
the excellence of bands and band music. Johnny Long was also elected in 
1994 to the National Band Association's Hall of Fame of Distinguished 
Band Conductors, becoming the youngest active bandmaster to be so 
honored.
  Dr. Johnny Long inspires an uncommon passion for musical scholarship 
in all he touches. Witness the fact that over his career more than 200 
of his former students have become active high school band directors 
and college music educators throughout the United States.
  To be sure, the whole Nation owes a debt of gratitude to Dr. Johnny 
Long on this occasion of his retirement from nearly half a century of 
bandmastery.


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