Las Cruces High School Band Reunion

Band member biography . . .

Jan Turbeville Turnage

(Scan of a Xerox of a photo)

After high school I went to the University of NM and played only one semester in orchestra. Interestingly enough, years later I discovered one of my friends in a community band had also playing in that orchestra at the same time.

Not being a music major, I didn't have time to keep up my music. I did graduate with a degree Business Education and have been married to Doug Turnage (EE from NMSU) for over 30 years. We have two sons, Brian, 26, who graduated from University of California at Santa Barbara and is working in San Jose, and Drew, 23, who is a senior at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

After 15 years of no music, I dusted off my flute and joined the Plano Community Band in Texas, which was just beginning.

We moved two years later to San Diego, and after finding no community band to play with, co-founded the Coastal Communities Concert Band, which just celebrated its 15th year. After 7-1/2 years of playing with that group and being its Business Manager, we again moved, this time to San Jose.

I joined the San Jose Wind Symphony and have been playing with them for over eight years. We recently left the community college system and became a non-profit, so I was one of the founding Board Members, and with my past experience became its Business Manager. This group just celebrated its 40th anniversary.

I'm also on the Board of the Association of Concert Bands, Inc., which is an organization devoted to furthering the adult community band. Besides being the piccolo player for SJWS, I play in a couple of woodwind quintets and in pit orchestras for several different theater groups.

As you can see, music is my life!!

Jan Turnage
25 July 1998
LCHS Band [1961-64]



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