ATSSB Home

Advertisers

All-State Programs

Application

Areas

Auditions

Bands

Chat Board

Commissioned Works

Composition Competition

Constitution

Directory 2011-12

Executive Secretary

Feedback

Jazz Ensemble

Job Board

Licensees

Links

Newsletter Archives

Newsletter

Officers

Online Forms

OPS

Regions

S A L

TMAA/ATSSB Members

TMEA

Brandon Brewer - President - mrbrunner@yahoo.com
John Young - President-Elect - jyoun_wp@yahoo.com
Robert Vetter - Immediate Past-President - bvetter@robinson.k12.tx.us
Kenneth Griffin - Executive Secretary - atssb@att.net
John Young - AAA Representative - jyoun_wp@yahoo.com
Mel Hadderton- AA Representative - mel.hadderton@esc9.net
Carrol Rhodes - A Representative - crhodes@tahoka.esc17.net
Brandon Garmon - CC Representative - garmonb@gilmerisd.org
Don Thoede - OPS State Chair - drt@htcomp.net
Tim Edins - ATSSB Website Design & Maintenance - edins@atssb.org

ATSSB Region Coordinators 2011-12

01 Kevin Kuehler - kevin.kuehler@borgerisd.net

02 Byron Alsup - alsup@swbell.net

03 Mike Bartley - mikeyb0822@hotmail.com

04 Eric Gray - graye@gilmerisd.org

05 Brandon Brewer - mrbrunner@yahoo.com

06 Darin K. Johns - djohns@ccity.esc14.net

07 Forrester Halamicek - hal162@verizon.net

08 Collin Anderson - c.ander@groesbeck.k12.tx.us

09 Michael Wilson - mwilson@shepherdisd.net

10 Russell Hopkins - russell.hopkins@warrenisd.net

11 John Rauschuber - johnr@fisd.org

12 Sandy Brown - snoopy.79353@yahoo.com

13 Rod Rodriguez - rodrodriguez@comcast.net

14 Charles Cabrera - ccabrera@mathisisd.org

15 Eddie Benitez - eddie.benitez@laferiaisd.net

16 Matt Knight - mknight@abernathyisd.com

18 Ann Lowes - annmlowes@aol.com

21 Gehrig Blankenship - gehrig.blankenship@gmail.com

22 George Rangel - grangel@ccaisd.net

23 Alfred Angerstein - fred.angerstein@kinkaid.org

ATSSB Area Coordinators 2010-11

Central: Perry Morris - perry.morris@giddings.txed.net

East: Rusty Lay - rlay@athensisd.net

North: Brandon Brewer - mrbrunner@yahoo.com

South: Emerico Perez III - emericop@yahoo.com

West: John Mayo - jmayo@lcisd.net

Brandon Brewer is the director of bands at Princeton High School. He and his wife Lia have two children: Robert Travis Brewer 5 years old and Sarah Elizabeth Brewer 3 years old He received a B.M.E. Cum Laude/Honors Graduate from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas in 1993. He served as Assistant Band Director, Magnolia Public Schools, Magnolia, Arkansas 93-94; Head Junior High Band Director, Canton ISD, Canton, Texas 94 – 97; Director of Bands, Grand Saline ISD, Grand Saline, Texas 97-99 and Director of Music, Princeton ISD, Princeton, Texas 99 – Present. He is a member of ATSSB, TMEA, TMAA, TBA, NBA, Phi Beta Mu, ATPE, and is on the UIL Region 25 Executive Committee. He has served ATSSB as Area North Coordinator, Region 5 and Region 3 Coordinator, and was the first ATSSB State Jazz Coordinator.

He is listed in Who’s Who Among American Teachers 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, & 2006. He directed the Grand Saline Band to its first ever U.I.L. Sweepstakes Award in 1998, then repeated Sweepstakes in 1999. His bands in Princeton have placed First Runner-Up for TMEA 3A Honor Band in 2002 and placed in the top 10 bands at U.I.L. 3A State Marching Contest in 2002 through 2008. He was named Princeton ISD High School and Secondary Teacher of the Year 2007.

Robert “Bob” Vetter is the Director of Bands for the Robinson Independent School District.  Previously, he served twenty-five years as Director of Bands for the Reagan County Independent School District in Big Lake.  He holds a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music Education from the University of North Texas.  Prior to 1983, he taught for four years at White Deer High School. Under his direction, the Reagan County Bands have consistently received top ratings in UIL Music Competition.  The Reagan County High School Band has appeared at the Texas UIL State Marching Contest on four different occasions.  In 2001, they placed fourth in the finals in class 2-A.  The RC Band has been a finalist for the TMEA Honor Band Competition and has had several tunes make it to the State Level in the Outstanding Performance Series.  During Robert's tenure, the RC Band has performed at the UIL State Wind Ensemble numerous times and has had several students named “Outstanding Soloist.” Robert is a Charter Member of the Association of Texas Small School Bands.  He is also a member of the Texas Music Educators Association, the Texas Bandmasters Association, Phi Beta Mu, and the Texas Music Adjudicators Association.  He is an active member of Meadowbrook Baptist Church in Robinson. Robert is married to Leeann Vetter who teaches fifth grade in Robinson.  Robert and Leeann are the parents of twin daughters, Allison and Ashton, both former members of the ATSSB All State Band.  They also have a son, Austin, who attends Robinson schools and is a future member of the ATSSB All State Band!

John Young - President-Elect

John Young is band director and Music Supervisor in Wills Point, Texas at Wills Point High School.  He received his music degrees from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR.  He also holds a Masters in Education Administration from Texas A&M @ Commerce.  John is currently in his 13th year at Wills Point. Under John’s leadership and an excellent staff the Wills Point High School Band has earned its first UIL Sweepstakes award and has maintained a streak of 10 since the first.  The band has been successful at the SMC finishing 2nd, 5th and 10th respectively.  The band currently has 140 in high school and almost 350 in the junior high.  At the same time that this growth has occurred, so has the success of the band. The Wills Point band staff are committed to music excellence in Wills Point and the state of Texas. He has served as the state ATSSB Jazz Chairman and served three terms as ATSSB AAA representative. He has worked closely with the state board of directors and the executive secretary. John and his wife Tracy have two daughters, Emily and Claire.  He is currently a member of ATSSB, TMEA, TBA and TMAA. 

Kenneth Griffin received his Bachelors and Masters degree from East Texas State University (now Texas A&M-Commerce). He is currently teaching part-time as band director at John Paul II Catholic School in Houston. He retired after teaching thirty-one years in public schools, the last twenty of which were at Van High School. His band in Van accumulated a string of nineteen consecutive Sweepstakes Awards, was named the 1986 AAA TMEA State Honor Band, won the AAA Sweepstakes Trophy at the 1986 Texas State Solo Ensemble Contest in Austin, and was named the Outstanding AAA Band at the 1988 National Association of Military Marching Bands Texas State Marching Contest. He is a life member of TSTA, is a founding charter member and Executive Secretary of the Association of Texas Small School Bands, is a member of the Texas Music Adjudicators Association and Phi Beta Mu and serves as a clinician and adjudicator across the state. His wife Jeannie is retired from a career in public school music, having taught junior and senior high choir and elementary music for twenty five years. His daughter Alecia is a Cum Laude graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas and the Juilliard School of Music in New York and is Founder, principal oboe and Executive Director of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston. He is a published composer of instrumental music, most recently "Talion" by RBC Music and "Day To Day" by Gore Music Publishing (both concert marches published in 1996);  also "Where Eagles Dare," "First Colony," and "White Oak" distributed by Bandroom.com Publications on the Internet.

Don Thoede retired from Clifton High School, a Class AAA school, on Jan. 1, 1998, as the Director of Bands. While in Clifton, his bands earned 9 consecutive UIL Sweepstakes Awards, competed in the UIL State Marching Contest Finals 5 times, placing 2nd in 1996. His concert bands were TMEA Honor Band Finalists 3 times, and 2 of his contest pieces placed 6th and 8th in the 1997 Outstanding Performance Series. He was awarded the Denius-UIL Sponsor Excellence Award in 1996. He is a member of ATSSB, TMEA, TBA, TMAA, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He is presently the State Chair of the ATSSB Outstanding Performance Series. He serves as a clinician and adjudicator across the state. He and his wife Joan have one married daughter.

Copyright © 2003 ATSSB Not responsible for the content of external links.