Janet West Miller 
Trustee, Life 

JANET WEST MILLER lives in San Antonio, Texas, with husband DeWayne A. Miller, Jr. They have two children: Dorothy Karon lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and DeWayne A.,III (Trey) lives in San Antonio. Trey and his wife Michelle have three children: James Thomas (J.T.), Nicole Elaine, and Michael Wystan.

Janet was a charter member of the Iota Chapter at Baylor University in 1948; she served as petition editor, Vice President, and President. She received a B.M.(1950) and a M.S.(1953) from Baylor. In 1953 she was elected 1st National Vice-President and in 1955 President of Tau Beta Sigma. She played in the National Intercollegiate Band in 1951, 1953, 1955, 1957, and 1961. Janet presided over the 1957 National Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, the highlight of which was the performance of the NIB in the Mormon Tabernacle!!! What an amazing sound!!!

After having served on and off as a member of the Tau Beta Sigma Board of Trustees, she was elected a Life member in 1995 at the convention in Orlando, Florida. She was the first past national president to be elected to the Board (1957).

A percussionist, Janet was the first full-time woman band director of a 5-A high school in Texas. She was a music educator in Texas for 32 years (junior-senior high school bands and elementary music, K-5). She is a Life Member of Texas PTA, a retired member of TMEA and TBA, a Life Member of the Baylor University Alumni Association, a Life Member of Tau Beta Sigma, and an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi (Beta Sigma). She currently plays in the Trinity Baptist Church Orchestra in San Antonio, and the Baylor University Alumni Band (BUGWAB). In 1981 she received the Wava Banes Turner Award.

Janet and her daughter, Dorothy Karon, were the first mother - daughter to be elected presidents of Tau Beta Sigma!! Of this Janet is very, very proud!!!!