Ashland, Oregon
clarinet
ABC Director
Editor
Bandworld
Ashland, Oregon
Max is Professor Emeritus at Southern Oregon University, where he was Director of Bands for 30 years. He was co-founder of Western International Band Clinic (with 1973 SOU alum Scott Taylor) in 1978, and continues as its Organizing Chairman. He is a graduate of Washington State University. His band director at WSU, Randy Spicer, became his father-in-law when he married Nell in 1962. Max and Nell have four children, Kathy (mother of 2000 ABC Staff Assistant Danielle Miller), Randy, Brad, and 1998 ABC Grad Scott.