Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 6, 1982 Page: 3 of 4
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UNIVERSITY PRESS October 6, 1982*3
Director leads life filled with music
By ALICE JORDAN
UP staff writer
His life has nearly always been filled
with the sound of music. His career, hob-
bies and talents all involve making music.
11 Wayne Dyess, marching band director,
attended Pittsburgh High School in the
Tyler-Longview area of Texas and
graduated from Stephen F. Austin Univer-
sity in Nacagdoches with a bachelor of
music degree in 1970.
Expecting to be drafted upon his gradua-
tion, Dyess said that he found a way to con-
tinue bis music career in military service.
1 He applied for, and was accepted into, both
the Army and Navy bands.
He chose the Navy.
When Dyess attended bootcamp in
Florida, he brought along his trombone
mouthpiece and “buzzed” into it while
washing clothes and doing other chores in
order to keep his lips in shape.
His superiors caught on to his non-
regulation activities and made him send
the mouthpiece back home. However, his
| mother mailed it back to him.
“I knew I’d have to be more careful after
that,” Dyess said.
After bootcamp, Dyess played with the
Navy band in Washington. For the first
four months, he played in the ceremonial
band, which performed for the opening of
new buildings, Congress and at funerals of
soldiers killed in the action in Vietnam.
Next, Dyess played with the Navy con-
cert band. This band toured the eastern
part of the United States twice a year for
periods of eight to 12 weeks.
Dyess became first chair trombonist and
a soloist for the band. These honors won
him the right to a seat to himself on the
tour buses. “I thought I was big stuff,” he
said.
While in the Navy, Dyess earned a
master of music degree at Catholic
University in Washington. He attended
band rehearsals in the morning and
classes in the afternoons.
Dyess left the Navy in 1975 and worked
as band director at Central Junior High
School in Nederland for two years. He also
taught trombone part-time at Lamar.
He was hired as a full-time trombone in-
structor at Lamar in 1977. Dyess served as
assistant marching band director as well.
Dyess became the full-time marching
band director when Jimmy Simmons,
former director, returned to school full-
time to work on his doctorate.
Arranging, conducting, and creating
marching routines are just a few of Dyess’
duties as band director.
Dyess’ wife Lynda is also musically in-
clined. She played French hom at Kilgore
Junior College.
Even his son Christopher, 5, gets into the
musical act. He accompanied the Big Red
Marching Band to the game against the
University of Houston and had a fun time
at Astroworld, Dyess said.
Dyess plays trombone in the Jimmy
Simmons-Wayne Dyess Big Band, a
16-piece jazz ensemble that performs at
Rummi’s in Beaumont every Monday
night.
The band, which is comprised of Lamar
faculty, students and alumni, also plays at
private parties, dances, and wedding
receptions.
Another of Dyess’ activities outside
Lamar is recording. He is co-owner of DJ’s
Sound Productions, an eight-channel
recording studio in Nederland.
Although it started out as a hobby, Dyess
said, the recording business has become
work.
DJ’s Sound has produced the music for a
White House at Central Mall commercial
and is arranging the music for a Darkroom
and Camera commercial.
The studio also produces demo tapes,
45’s, and albums.
His four-channel recording, done on a
home recorder of the Nederland High
School Jazz Band when he was director of
the jazz band there, won the band a spot on
an album.
The National Association of Jazz
Educators made an album called “Project
II” that featured outstanding high school
jazz bands, and Dyess’ band was included
on the album.
Photography is one of Dyess’ few non-
musical hobbies. He owns a video
recorder. “It’s fun to video my kid,” he
said.
Dyess said he likes teaching at Lamar.
He’s had offers to teach at other schools,
including universities in Utah, Arizona,
and Louisiana.
In fact, he was hired to teach at
McNeese State University in Lake
Charles, La., but decided to stay at Lamar.
“Even with the problems at Lamar,”
Dyess said, "it’s a good place to work. It’s
nice to know you’re working in a quality in-
stitution.”
Plans for the future include work toward
his doctorate in education with a music
emphasis, Dyess said.
He has been taking courses at the
University of Houston and will do his
residency work there this spring. He will
work at Lamar part-time.
No matter what the future holds in store
for Dyess, it is sure to include music.
^ -Tonight-
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$5 cover charge
Thursday, Oct. 7
Greek Night
Fraternity and Sorority members
get in Free-plus 25-cent draft beer!!
&
Wayne Dyess
Photo by JAN COUVHXON
Award
given
Alice Cater, real estate
coordinator at Lamar, has
been awarded the Texas
Real Estate Teachers
Association Award for
Merit, according to
Richard Dixon, assistant
director of public informa-
tion.
This award was given in
recognition of her contribu-
tion to and efforts in behalf
of the association.
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Tisdale, John. Lamar University Press (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 11, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 6, 1982, newspaper, October 6, 1982; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499615/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.