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1
HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the
3 State of Illinois are pleased to congratulate Jim Culbertson of
4 Decatur on the occasion of his retirement after 35 years in
5 education; and
 
6     WHEREAS, Mr. Culbertson has been director of high school
7 bands in Decatur for the past 35 years, and for 29 years, he
8 has led the MacArthur High School Band Program, in which the
9 Jazz Band has earned the distinction as one of the premier jazz
10 groups in the country; the band has been awarded 32 Down Beat
11 magazine Student Music Awards in an assortment of categories,
12 garnering the top spot as the Best High School Jazz Band in the
13 U.S. four times; the jazz band has traveled extensively and has
14 performed in Japan, at the North Sea, and in Montreux, Umbria,
15 and Vienne Jazz Festivals; and
 
16     WHEREAS, He has served as Musical Director and Conductor
17 for the Decatur Municipal Band since 1978 and continues to be
18 active serving as guest clinician and adjudicator throughout
19 the United States in both the jazz and concert areas; and
 
20     WHEREAS, He has served as Vice-President of the Jazz
21 Division of the Illinois Music Educators Association and is the
22 past Vice-President of the Illinois unit of IAJE; he is also
23 involved with writing reviews of new jazz band publications for
24 The Instrumentalist magazine; he was jazz chair for the
25 National Band Association (NBA) from 1999 to 2003 and also
26 served as the coordinator and director of the NBA All-American
27 Jazz Band for the 2000 convention in San Antonio; he is
28 currently a member of the Resource Team for the International
29 Association of Jazz Educators, a position he has held since the
30 fall of 2000; and
 
31     WHEREAS, In addition to his duties at MacArthur, which

 

 

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1 include three concert bands, a marching band, a pep band, two
2 jazz bands, and a jazz combo, he also assists with the bands at
3 Stephen Decatur Middle School; and
 
4     WHEREAS, Mr. Culbertson is also very active as a performer,
5 most recently touring the country playing trumpet in the band
6 for his son, Brian Culbertson, who is a GRP/Verve recording
7 artist; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Mr. Culbertson and his wife, Carol, have made
9 their home in Decatur for the past 35 years and are the proud
10 parents Jamie and Brian, who is married to Michelle; therefore,
11 be it
 
12     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
13 NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
14 we congratulate Jim Culbertson on the occasion of his
15 retirement, and we thank him for his many years of devotion to
16 the students of Decatur; and be it further
 
17     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
18 presented to him as an expression of our deepest gratitude and
19 esteem.