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Re: OCTOBER 2003 Reunion

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Diego Pena

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Date Posted: 20:55:29 09/29/03 Mon
In reply to: Mike Groves 's message, "Re: OCTOBER 2003 Reunion" on 13:45:47 09/29/03 Mon

I'm not totally surprised. Some of the former band members I spoke to said they probably wouldn't attend since we just had our reunion this past summer.

The biggest logistical question in my mind was how the Alumni Band was going to play at the game? Why would the current Marshall administration allow a bunch of alums--many of whom don't contribute donations or tax dollars to the school--to upstage the current Marshall Ram Band (which incidentally, is pretty good). If a football game is ever planned as part of an Alum reunion, I would simply suggest that we attend the game as spectators, and have fun. We had our moment in the sun, and it was an outstanding moment. Let the current Ram Band members have their moment, and let's share in making it special for the current Ram Band.

The reason colleges like to encourage alumni bands to return to the college campuses and march: money. The majority of former band members contribute significant funds to either the University or the University's music programs. NISD and Marshall aren't set up for this like the colleges.

In the future, I would vote to simply having the type of get together we recently had (happy hour, picnic, evening social), and leaving it at that.
Them's my thoughts....

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Author: *********** [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 05:42:01 10/01/03 Wed One other thing here....this is the Homecoming game. If I'm not mistaken, homecoming is for the alumni [ Post a Reply to This Message ]