ANTECEDENTS
John J. Haynie came to the University of North Texas as a temporary instructor of brass instruments during the summer of 1950. Prior to the appearance of Haynie, the Director of Bands, Maurice McAdow, had taught the trumpeters for a period of five years, and there is some evidence that even in the early 1940s NTSTC had a trumpet teacher though not confirmed by college records. It is known without question that E.K. Mellon did enroll and completed a degree in music. It is also confirmed that E.K. Mellon had taught at the Eastman School of Music for several years and had also played in five major symphony orchestras. Much of the mystery hinges on the fact that Mellon left a sizable library of trumpet music all of which bears a large EKM stamped on each piece of music. This EKM library of Leduc publications of French repertoire has been used repeatedly during the past fifty years by John Haynie and his students.

THE HAYNIE LEGACY
Legacy by definition means “something received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past”. John Haynie’s forty years of legacy building as trumpet teacher and administrator, in retrospect, can be divided into four stages.

1950-1960
As a young man just out of college, John Haynie had little experience teaching anything. Dean Walter Hodgson was not the least concerned with that deficiency. He envisioned what might be some day. He liked the way Haynie played the trumpet and wanted him to play wherever he might be invited. Play he did. As the first full-time trumpet teacher at UNT, recruiting quality students was the mission of his first years. In the words of Dale Olson, author of the book The Haynie Legacy, “In his first ten years we learned how to play the trumpet and John Haynie learned how to teach the trumpet”.

1960-1970
By the mid-1960s John Haynie realized that he was spending far too much time traveling, performing, judging and giving clinics. Recruiting was unnecessary because a happy set of circumstances guaranteed more trumpet players than he could ever teach. Also he became very interested in how various parts of the anatomy behaved when playing the trumpet. Dr. Alexander M. Finlay, radiologist, was the catalyst for a learning adventure that would have a profound effect on trumpet pedagogy, especially at UNT. While the first ten years were devoted to performance and learning how to teach, the second decade was characterized by teaching, performance and research. The research was finding justification of what Haynie believed and what he had learned to teach in his first ten years. Haynie was fully prepared to accept the results and alter any concepts he held that were in error.

1970-1980
In this decade Haynie was comfortable in his career, his department, and found himself one of the most senior in university tenure, departmental success, and was elected or appointed to many departmental and university committees. This was a period of politics as he served on virtually every important committee in the School of Music and the University itself. With his colleague, Dr. Leonard Candelaria, it is truly amazing how many of the world’s greatest trumpet performers and teachers they attracted to the campus and concert hall.

1980-1990
This was a period of winding down. The Haynie studio was running over with fine students as was Dr. Candelaria’s and also the many TAs they had to have. There was less interest in serving on committees and a desire to spend more time with his students. After many years of making no public appearances as soloist, Haynie once again took up his trumpet for his personal enjoyment and to play at his church. In 1985 John Haynie retired and entered a program of modified service for the university. In 1986 John Haynie would make a final musical statement and a fond farewell by appearing as guest cornet soloist with the University of North Texas Wind Ensemble at the Texas Music Educators Convention in Sat Antonio, Texas.