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Longtime band director to hand up baton

Posted on May 20, 2010 |
By John Flowers



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GENE CHILDERS, BAND director at Middlebury Union Middle School, will retire next month after four decades of teaching. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

MIDDLEBURY — Gene Childers, 66, has been marching to his own tune since he was six years old.

Students in the region have been following Childers’ marching orders for more than four decades during his long career as a music instructor and band director, the past 22 years of which have been spent at Middlebury Union Middle School.

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