"Leading the program, that's a component of Stacee's personality that's kind of been evident from the get go," he said. Like she did in marching band, Williams is a leader at Student Legal Services. "At the end of the day, when I look at how we've affected people's lives, we just radically improve the course of someone's life here," Abplanalp said.Īnd it's been rewarding for the pair to work together again after all of these years.
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While it's not the professional path either imagined back in high school, they're both happy with how their careers have worked out. Stacee was kind enough not to bring that up during my interview."Ībplanalp got the job, and the two have been working together ever since. "The first day we were there - not Stacee - but some of us were throwing patio furniture into the swimming pool.
"I remember one jazz band trip we took down to Gatlinburg, and it was crazy," he said. He jokes that he's glad Williams kept an open mind after knowing him as a teenager. When another staff attorney position opened at Student Legal Services in 2010, Abplanalp thought it seemed like a great opportunity and applied. Abplanalp was working in private practice at the time, and Williams was a staff attorney for Student Legal Services. It wasn't until years later that the two would cross paths again, not as musicians, but as practicing attorneys at the Monroe County Courthouse. So I finished at the Maurer School like Stacee." "I started law school in Boston, and I really knew about three weeks in that I wanted to be back in Bloomington. "Off I went to law school," Abplanalp said.
He eventually decided he wanted a job that provided more stability. Abplanalp was in and out of college for a decade, getting his degree in business before returning to his music career. He toured for about three years, including gigs on cruise ships and even the circus. "I just decided I wanted to do something with direct service to people," Williams said.Ībplanalp spent a year and a half at Jacobs before leaving school to work as a musician. As a law student, she worked as an intern in the office she would later come to lead, Student Legal Services. She switched to history and political science, then attended IU Bloomington's Maurer School of Law. She spent two years in the program before deciding she wanted to change her major to a larger field. Williams attended the Jacobs School of Music to pursue her dream of becoming a classical saxophonist. Their shared love of music made them feel connected, but they lost touch after high school.
Abplanalp played trumpet in the marching band, but he was more passionate about the jazz band he and Williams belonged to. Williams was one year head of Abplanalp at Bloomington South, and she lived for marching band.
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