{"id":3957,"date":"2016-01-28T14:48:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T14:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/?p=3957"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T20:55:23","slug":"max-jones-announces-partial-retirement-effective-spring-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/max-jones-announces-partial-retirement-effective-spring-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Jones Announces Semi-Retirement Effective Spring 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2013 Professor Max Jones, Director of Boiler Brass (Men\u2019s Basketball Pep Band), announced his semi-retirement at the conclusion of this year\u2019s season at last night\u2019s band rehearsal.\u00a0 Max came to Purdue in the fall of 2005, when he took a sabbatical to work with the Purdue \u201cAll-American\u201d Marching Band.\u00a0 In 2006, he officially became an assistant director, replacing retired Professor Bill Kisinger.\u00a0 Since then, Max has conducted Boiler Brass, Symphonic Band and has served as the department\u2019s Director of the Roy A. Johnson Partner\u2019s in Music Education program.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jones will continue to assist with the Purdue \u201cAll-American\u201d Marching Band and will coordinate the Roy A. Johnson Partners in Music Education program.\u00a0 His decision to step down as the Director of Boiler Brass was based on his desire to spend more time with his wife, Dianne.\u00a0 Director of Bands, Jay Gephart said, \u201cMax has done an amazing job with Boiler Brass during his time at Purdue.\u00a0 He has set the stage for future success.\u00a0 An announcement will be made soon concerning the new director of Boiler Brass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Jones has agreed to conduct alumni pep bands during the Holidays, so loyal Boiler Brass Alumni will have the opportunity to enjoy Max, again.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, please contact Courtney Downey, <a href=\"mailto:cndowney@purdue.edu\">cndowney@purdue.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2013 Professor Max Jones, Director of Boiler Brass (Men\u2019s Basketball Pep Band), announced his semi-retirement at the conclusion of this year\u2019s season at last night\u2019s band rehearsal.\u00a0 Max came to Purdue in the fall of 2005, when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15772,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions\/15772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}