2018
Phillip Harold Lowe
Coordinator Visual & Performing Arts, Director Bands, Music
Outstanding Leadership:- As Coordinator of the Visual and Performing Arts oversaw the music, drama and art departments and administer all areas of the Hill College Performing Arts Series
- Administer the Alden J. Blanar Smith Speaker Series which began in 2009 and has included Astronaut Story Musgrave, Judge Kenneth Winston Starr, Representative Chet Edwards, Texas Rangers radio voice Eric Nadel, Olympic Champion Bob Richards and Chet Garner, the Daytripper
- Was the Minnie Stevens Piper Award nominee for Hill College in 2012
- Been a member of the Texas Community College Teachers Association for the past 43 years
- Been a member of the Texas Association of Music Schools (association of all music department heads for 2 year community colleges, 4 year public universities and 4 year private universities) for over 30 years and have been on the Executive Board and administer their listserv
- Selected and served on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Music Field of Study Advisory Committee 2015-17.
Dedicated Service:- Taught over 1,000 students over the past 43 years
- Director of Bands for 38 years which included the concert, jazz, pep bands
- Received the NISOD (National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development) Excellence in Teaching award in 2009
- Received a Hill College Faculty Study Grant in 2009 for research in England of brass bands and instruments of the 19th Century
- Collected and archived the history of the Texas Community College All-State Bands from 1974 to the present. Proudly Hill College has had a member in that band 41 of the past 43 years and two students have been selected as the soloist for that band.
Excellence in Communication, Cooperation, and Collaboration:
- Research on the early brass band movement in the U.S. and Great Britain, in particular the early development of brass instruments used in U.S. Civil War bands
- Archival research project of the Texas Community College All State Band which is listed on the Texas Community College Band Directors Association website at http://tccbda.org/
- In 1982 formed the Hill College Hood’s Texas Brigade Brass Band. The band is the only one of its kind west of the Mississippi River and one of only a few in the United States. This 8-10 piece ensemble plays authentic music from the 26th North Carolina Regimental Band, one of the more extensive collections of Civil War band music in existence today, and uses five replica over-the-shoulder instruments to give an authentic presentation of the music. The band plays for community and civic programs, parades, reenactments, and historical meetings and symposiums in Texas and Louisiana. The creation of this group has brought state-wide recognition to Hill College and its music program.
Phillip Harold Lowe, 2018 Jesse Jones Leadership Award winner, with Pam Boehm, President, Hill College
