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SENATE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION No. _____
DIGEST OF INTRODUCED RESOLUTION
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION memorializing the life of
Bloomington High School North Band Director Janis Stockhouse.
YODER
, read first time and referred to Committee on
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SENATE CONCURRENT
RESOLUTION No. _____
1 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION memorializing the life
2 of Bloomington High School North Band Director, Janis
3 Stockhouse.
4 Whereas, Janis Stockhouse was a music educator, director,
5 and mentor in the Bloomington music community. Janis served
6 for 38 years as Bloomington High School North's band director
7 and she was a devoted educator who inspired hundreds of
8 students and instructors;
9 Whereas, Janis was a pioneer in a field traditionally
10 dominated by men and was a member of the first class of
11 Indiana University's Marching Hundred to admit women in
12 1973. She earned her Bachelor of Music Education degree from
13 the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 1977;
14 Whereas, Janis earned multiple accolades throughout her
15 career and in retirement, including the Bloomington Area Arts
16 Council's Educator of the Year in 2005, Phi Beta Mu Gamma
17 Chapter's Outstanding Bandmaster Award in 2007 and the
18 Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic's Medal of
19 Honor Award in 2021, as well as being recognized in 2015 as
20 a "jazz hero" by the Jazz Education Network and as the David
21 Baker Indiana Jazz Educator of the year in 2016,
22 Whereas, Coming to Bloomington High School North in
23 1981, Janis was a trailblazer as a female high school band
24 director and turned the band into a nationally recognized
25 program, possibly contributing more students to the Indiana
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1 University Jacobs School of Music than any other high school
2 in the country;
3 Whereas, Upon retiring from Bloomington North High
4 School, Janis remained an active presence in the local
5 community and music scene as an instructor at the Monroe
6 County Community School Corporation's Beginning Band
7 Program; and
8 Whereas, Janis was humble and selfless, always turning
9 the attention away from herself and onto her students. Janis
10 was a great band director, model educator, and excellent
11 community member and she will be fondly remembered by all
12 those who have had the privilege of knowing her: Therefore,
13 Be it resolved by the Senate of the General Assembly
14 of the State of Indiana, the House of Representatives
15 concurring:
16 SECTION 1. That the Indiana General Assembly honors the
17 life of Janis Stockhouse and her service to our community and
18 students.
19 SECTION 2. The Secretary of the Senate is hereby directed
20 to transmit two copies of this Resolution to the family of Janis
21 Stockhouse and the Bloomington High School North Band
22 Department.
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