Memorial planned for Dr. Doug Whitten in Pittsburg – KOAM

PITTSBURG, Kan. – A memorial is deliberate for Dr. Doug Whitten who died immediately on June 6. He was 54.

Whitten was a professor within the Pittsburg State College Division of Music for practically 19 years. He directed the PSU Pleasure of the Plains Marching Band.

“However he broke from the norm as band administrators go — maybe finest identified for sporting Converse and tattoos, he usually did push-ups with the ROTC cadets after touchdowns and curler skated beside the band in Homecoming and Christmas parades.” – Andra Stefanoni, Director of Media Relations at PSU (Learn extra)

The memorial is deliberate for Tuesday, June 21, at 7:00 pm on the Bicknell Household Middle for the Arts. The gathering shall be streamed at pittstate.television for anybody who can’t attend in individual. Organizers invite buddies, colleagues, college students and anybody who knew and beloved Doug to attend.

Amongst his accomplishments:

• In 2011, he took the Pleasure of the Plains to Alabama to carry out within the Nationwide Championship soccer recreation — a recreation PSU received.
• In 2012, he directed the band in recording music for the Hollywood movie “The Marketing campaign,” starring Will Farrell, together with his pal Chris Fogel, an award-winning recording engineer and producer.
• In 2016, he led the Mid America All-Star Marching Band, comprised of scholars from 10 space excessive faculties, to march within the 2016 Nationwide Independence Day Parade in Washington, D.C.
• Every summer time that the Shrine Bowl has been held in Pittsburg, he has directed the 150+ member All-State Shrine Bowl Marching Band. (He was set to take action once more this July; as an alternative, colleague Andrew Chybowski, assistant professor of music, will step in.)
• For a number of years, he introduced Drum Corps Worldwide exhibits to Carnie Smith Stadium — in his youth, Whitten had marched in DCI.
• He directed the basketball pep band for a few years.

Doug Whitten additionally owned a cellular bicycle restore store, in response to Stefanoni. You may learn extra about Whitten right here.

Whitten is survived by his fiancé, Kristie Browns, and two youngsters, Elliot and Catcher, of Boise, Idaho.

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