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Thursday, March 23, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Students study KU band's past
By BARB KOENIG
Staff Writer
University of Kansas marching band members would like to blow their own horn.
Research on the band program's history from its birth in the 1800s already has been started by music and film studies in India, where they study the history and function of marching bands.
According to Robert E. Foster, director of bands and instructor of the class, a major research project is required each semester as part of the course.
Besides the research project, the students study bands from the time of the Romans and ancient Greeks until the present and learn marching band fundamentals.
Foster said Tuesday that he approached the seven-member class of graduate students and advance undergraduates at UNC Charlotte to meet with the idea of documenting KU bands.
on occurrences and information from people in the band program during its early years needed to be made available.
"I THINK it is important that kids develop a sense of history." Foster said. "In our case, the history that we're talking about is the history of the area that we work in."
The project, which will be a document
tation with pictures, is divided into three periods.
The first period, from 1890-1833, covers Charles Sanford Skilton and J.C. McCanley, KU's first two band directors.
KU The second period begins in 1934, when the Russell L. Wiley became director of bands and covers Wiley's 35 years as director. The third period, 1968 to the present, covers the last three directors, Kenneth Blohmquist, George Boberg and Foster.
George Bober and Peter
Two students are assigned to each period and one student is responsible for the photography.
The students are using a variety of sources for information, such as the KU archives, band department records, newspaper articles and KU yearbooks.
ARNOLD STRICKER, University City, Mo., senior, said some of the background information had led him to people familiar with early directors.
with relevant information, who is researching Skilton and McCanales, was able to find McCanales' daughter, who is providing information and names, he said.
One problem he found, however, was that many of McCanes' personal belongings were lost in a fire about 1937 and a flood last summer.
"Looking back is a vital thing for any music program," he said.
Stricker, who was the 1977 marching band president, said the project was important.
Steve Gordon, caney senior, who was assistant drum major for the 1977 marching band, is responsible for researching the last period, beginning in 1858, when Bloomquist became an assistant to Wiley. Two of the band directors, Boberg and Porter, are still at KU.
Kenneth Bloomquist, who preceded
the director of bands at
Michigan State University.
GORDON SAID his main problem was that he had to be careful about giving credit to one director when credit actually should be given to another.
The students also are finding anecdotes of past bowl trips and personnel changes.
The marching band's first bowl trip, to the 1948 Orange Bowl game, was made possible because Kansas Gov. Carlson started a campaign to raise funds for the trip to Miami. In 10 days $24,000 had been raised and the band was on its way.
In 1988, when the Kansas football team returned to the Orange Bowl so did the marching band. The half-time show featured a revolving sunflower drill as a tribute to Kansas. This show has become the current pregame show.
The 1988 Orange Bowl trip also was significant because the band had received
new uniforms for the performance, the first uniforms that used KU colors.
ACCORDING TO FOSTER, the documentation of this module is included in new points.
William Foster was involved in the band program at KU for four years in the 1940s but was never allowed to march in a performance because he was black.
He cited an incident involving William Patrick Foster, who is now band director at Florida A & M and, according to Robert Snyder, a prominent black music educator in the world.
Robert Foster said that despite this treatment William Foster had remained loyal to KU. William Foster has received a Distinguished Service Citation from KU.
Foster said he thought this kind of story was just as important as positive stories.
"His loyalty to KU is great but it is in spite of his own weakness, not because of how he handled the crisis," she said.
When all of the information is compiled at the end of the semester, Foster said, each student working on the project will receive a copy of the work.
"What we do with it is going to depend on what we have to work with." Foster said. "Right now it's too early to determine what that is going to be."
Estes' deals under investigation
TYLER, Texas (AP) - Fifteen years after he defrauded the federal government and 400 individuals of several million dollars, convicted swindler Bial Sol Esite is back in
Alvamar plan received coolly by commission
The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission forwarded to the Lawrence City Commission a proposed plan for development of a subdivision within the Alvamar golf course last night without recommendation for approval or denial.
The decision came after the planning commission failed to achieve a majority vote concerning the request for the construction of a 14-lot single-family subdivision within the maintenance area of the golf course.
The proposed plan was previously denied by the City Commission in November 1976, after it had been recommended for approval by the planning commission in October 1976.
Commissioner Hank Booth suggested that the entire discussion be forwarded to the City Commission so that they were aware of both sides, with a notation that the planning commission could not agree upon a recommendation.
SEVERAL REQUESTS for rezoning in the Lawrence-Douglas County area also
The plan now goes to the City Commission, where it could be approved, denied or vetoed.
OPPONENTS TO the plan, mostly residents of the area near the golf course, said that Alvamar Inc. had promised them an unobstructed view of the golf course and that the promises had been broken by Alvamar's proposed development.
Two of the requests were deferred until the next planning commission meeting in April, and the others were forwarded to the commission with recommendations for approval.
Plans to amend the parking standards for future multiple family dwellings and fraternities, sororites and residence halls also were discussed.
the proposal to assess parking space by allowing one space for each two occupants of a fraternity, sorority and residence hall or a private room or larger house pass unanimously.
Greek groups promoting unity in new council
The council was formed jointly by the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association. It is composed of the president from each sorority's pledge class and a delegate from the pledge class of each fraternity.
A council to promote unity and to break down stereotypes among Greek living groups has been established at the University of Kansas.
The purpose of the pledge council is to bring the Greek community together, Janet Lively, Panhellenic vice president for pledge affairs, said.
"We wanted to unite the Greek community and we thought the pledge class was
This year's council is called Greek Preview '78.
Love Baker, IPC president, said the pledge council was trying to break down the problem.
The pledge council was formed early this semester and meets every other week with several of the executive officers from Pannellenci and IFC.
A new freshman council will be elected every year, Jim Ruane, Sigma Chi president, will be up to the council to decide, then decide it. It wants to continue to meet next year.
Ruane, who suggested the formation of the council, said the group's emphasis would be on service projects, although the other also would hold some social activities.
the promoting business, according to several embittered Texans.
The man the U.S. Jaceys once named one of the 10 "Outstanding Young Men of America" being investigated by the Attorney General, John F. Browne, the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service.
THE INVESTIGATIONS were sparked by two suitcases full of documents that were turned over to investigate agencies and Mississippi developer Don Trull last year.
Trull, a cigar-chomping, self-described gambler, said he shared an Abilene office with Estes in 1976 and took the documents because Estes persuaded him to buy several sagging properties and then rengened on a million-dollar loan. Trull moved to Tyler.
where he continued his efforts to get back his initial investment with Estes.
IN AUGUST, Trull allegedly splashed gasoline inside a Tyler office and held a man hostage, demanding that Estes and Tyler millionaire Billy Purr come up with $1.6
He was charged with kidnapping. This week jury selection is under way in Tyler. Estes and 69 others have been subpoenaed to testify, and the defense may be planning, in effect, to try Estes for his alleged business dealings with Trull.
Estes, known for his persuasiveness, so far has refused to comment.
TRUSS AND EIGHT Abilene, San Angelo and Houston businesses were interviewed
sworn statements weave a complex web of promotional schemes that they say were orchestrated by Estes, including a steam ship that has attracted state and federal operations.
Estes, paroled in 1971 after serving 6 years of a 15-year-sentence—and now seeking a presidential pardon—has been barred from any self-employment or promotional activities. Last month, a federal judge ordered him and his wife, Patsy, to pay $4.6 million in back taxes on the millions he received in the 1983 swamp.
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