Music school honors director

School of Music students will form an honor guard on Jordan Avenue today to honor a former colleague as his funeral procession passes the school's buildings.\nLarry Stoute, 57, director of facilities at the school, succumbed Tuesday to cancer at Beverly Health Care Center in Bloomington.\n"He was just a superlative person who met the everyday challenges of daily life around the music school," doctoral candidate Sarah Read said. "Without his detail orientedness the school would have fallen apart."\nRead said Stoute was the type of man who worked behind the scenes and liked it. She said whenever she needed to get into a locked room, he was always there to let her in. \nRead said she didn't know Stoute was ill, but School of Music Dean Gwyn Richards sent out an e-mail to students, staff and faculty letting them know about Stoute's death Tuesday.\nIn his e-mail Richards expressed the sadness the music school will feel with the death of Stoute, who had been an IU employee since 1989, a sadness music school scheduling coordinator Dorothy Riggle said is universal at the school.\n"He leaves behind him a sense of really caring about the job," Riggle said.\nIt was last Christmas when Stoute first began having the stomach pains, she said. Doctors first thought it was ulcers, but they determined it was pancreatic cancer.\nRiggle said even though the school had a month to prepare for Stoute's passing, it's still rough and they were all praying for a miracle that didn't come.\nThe procession will leave Allen Funeral Home headed west on Third Street. At Jordan Avenue, the procession will turn right and pass by the music facilities.\n-- Contact staff writer Brandon Morley at bmorley@indiana.edu.