Joe Riemer
Joe Riemer a native of New Orleans, La., received his bachelor and Masters degrees in music education at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La. He began his teaching career in 1962 and has served as band director at Davidson High School and Shaw High School in Mobile, Al. Subsequently he has served as band director at Bay Minette Middle School, Baldwin County High School and Faulkner State Community College, all in the Mobile Area.
He has served on the board of the Mobile Jazz Festival and as conductor of its High School All-star Jazz Band with numerous performances on the Mobile Jazz Festival concert programs. He also holds membership in MENC, the Alabama Bandmasters Association, Florida Bandmasters Association, and the music fraternities Phi Mu Alpha and Phi Beta Mu, and has served as adjudicator, clinician and guest conductor throughout the Southeast.
Joe is one of the founders of the Mobile Symphonic Pops and served as one of its co-directors for 10 years. He is also the founder of the Baldwin Pops, a community band in the Baldwin County, and has served as its music director since its inception in 1997.
He was named in 2001 by the Mobile Bay Monthly as one of the most influential “Masters of the Arts” for Mobile and Baldwin County and in 2007 was received the Fairhope First “Quality of Life” award for his contribution to the enhancement the quality of life in the Fairhope area.
He and his wife Mary Lou are both retired educators and reside in Fairhope, Al. They have two children and four grandchildren
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Doctor Roger Jones
Doctor Jones, a native of Miami, Florida, finished his Ph.D. in music theory/composition at the University of Miami in 1972. In 1974, after leaving a position as composer-in-residence and coordinator of a music project in Kansas, he moved to Monroe, Louisiana where he taught at the University of Louisiana at Monroe – formerly Northeast Louisiana University. That same year he joined the Monroe Symphony Orchestra as principal tubist, a position he held for 25 years. In 1992, he became assistant and then associate conductor of the orchestra. From 1999 until his retirement in 2003, he served as the symphony’s principal conductor and musical director. He also conducted ULMs University Orchestra for 13 years and the Monroe Youth Symphony for over five years. For many years he performed with the Chamber Arts Brass Quintet and the Monroe Consort, an ensemble performing on Renaissance era instruments. His list of original musical compositions include works for orchestra, band, choir, chamber ensembles, solo instruments and voice. A number of his works are available from music publishers.
Major works include his “Symphony No. 2” for orchestra, commissioned by the Monroe Symphony Orchestra and his ballet “Ouachita Rhapsody” commissioned by the Twin City Ballet of Monroe-West Monroe.
Honors given to Dr. Jones include the 2002 Outstanding Artist Award from the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council and the Louisiana Governor’s Art Education Award for 1997. In 1998, the College of Liberal Arts at ULM recognized him as its outstanding teacher. For his final year at the university he served as Interim Director of the School of Music as it made the transition into the School of Visual and Performing Arts.
Dr. Jones retired to Gulf Shores, Alabama, with his wife Dee in 2003. That same year he joined the Baldwin Pops Band. He continues to write music, perform on the tuba and pursue his love of fishing in the Gulf.
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Randy Davis
Honorable Randy Davis was elected to
the Alabama House of Representatives (District 96) during November 2002.
As a member of the Republican Party, Davis represents cities in Baldwin and
Mobile County (Daphne, Spanish Fort, Chickasaw, Saraland, and Satsuma).
Rep. Davis is a member of the Constitution and Elections Committee and Education
Committee. Also, Rep. Davis serves as a member of the Reapportionment
Committee of the National Southern Legislators Association.
Davis, age 51, is a former resident of
the Chickasaw and Saraland communities and currently resides in Daphne. Having
most recently served as coordinator for the Baldwin County Public School System,
Davis has worked in education for more than 25 years. His duties have included
coordination of community education, Partnership in Education and public
relations activities for all Baldwin County public schools.
Davis began his teaching career in
Mississippi and also worked for the Mobile County Public School System as a
teacher and administrator for 23 years.
Davis has directed bands and choirs of
all ages during his career and served as choir director at Chickasaw United
Methodist Church and Spanish Fort United Methodist Church. Randy Davis has
earned bachelors, masters and education specialist degrees in music education
and administration, and has studied music at the University of Southern
Mississippi as well as Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey.
In addition to his work at Chickasaw
United Methodist Church, Spanish Fort United Methodist Church and the Baldwin
County Public School system, Davis has performed professionally with the Mobile
Opera, Mobile Ballet, Mobile Symphony, and numerous other church and
professional groups.
A recipient of the 1999 Michael Fitzhugh
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education, Davis has also been involved
in many community organizations having served as chairman of the United States
Sports Academy’s Youth Arts program, Baldwin and Mobile United Way Committee,
board member of the Mobile Arts Council, Bounds YMCA Board of Directors, Boys
and Girls Clubs, Baldwin County Trailblazers Board, Chickasaw Chamber of
Commerce, Senior Bowl Committee, Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Committee, GMAC
Bowl Committee, Baldwin Pops Band, Mobile Community Pops Band, Leadership Mobile
1996, Envision Mobile/Baldwin, Dixie Youth Baseball in Chickasaw and Daphne, and
is currently a resident conductor and performer with the Baldwin Pops Band.
Born to J. E. Davis and Lucille Davis of Saraland, Davis is married to Martha Lindsey Davis, a native of Chickasaw. She has taught at Robert E. Lee School in Satsuma and is currently a teacher at Chickasaw Magnet School of Math and Science. Mrs. Davis also serves as an organist for the community’s St. Michael’s Episcopal Church. The Davis’ have one son, Judd, who attended schools in Satsuma and Chickasaw before graduating from Daphne High School. Judd currently attends Troy State University in Troy, Alabama.
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