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Mike Green
From corduroyed contest-winning commandant to new-wave impresario, Mr. Green was a consummate musician, a complex character, and a dedicated teacher on and off the podium. His decade-long tenure (1975 - 1985) remains one of the most distinctive and musically successful periods of the band's history. Never failing to push his students to higher levels of musical consciousness, he introduced and nurtured many of the philosophies and traditions still carried by the band and, by way of his students who now dot the musical landscape of the eastern US, of many other bands as well. A graduate of Andrew Lewis HS (Salem) from the great band of Dennis Reaser and of the fine music department at Eastern Carolina University, his musical ideas soon proved powerful enough to lead him to the west coast to pursue the life of a performer, composer/arranger and, most recently, a proud father. And he did it all fueled on grape juice and peanuts.
GREEN ERA GALLERY 1
Images of leadership, 1981-82..........L-R: David Martin, Greg Corvin, Tod Wright, Beth McPeak, HC Burke, Kathy Fox, Kevin Sherwood.
Peanuts again.....
Yearbook photo 1978-79.
At the Chilhowie Apple Festival, 1980.
Remodeling the kitchen on a teacher's salary?
Regional Solo & Ensemble Festival participants, 1982.
Homeroom picture - the whole class was made up of Mr. Green's first group of beginners, started in 5th grade (the only class to do so at Scott back then) in 1975. Here they are as 7th graders with the maestro and Mrs. Turpin.