University Daily Kansas
Friday, October 23, 1970
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... a 50-year tradition, the KU marching band has experienced many memorable events
Marching Jayhawks Parade down Massachusetts Street in Full Uniform
Through Four Directors
Wilev Recalls KU Band History
By REBECCA CHITESTER Kansan Staff Writer
University of Kansas bands have performed on marching fields and in concert halls for the years before. Many of them have been exposed to the influence of four directors, many policy changes and a variety of musical styles.
Russell L. Wiley, professor of music and director of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp, where he was the first KU band director.
McCamles came to KU in 1907 and served as director of bands for 27 years.
Before McCamies, the bands had no regular director. Wiley said that the band has been under the division of "gifted students."
He said that in the late 1800's school bands were organized by a terested student musicians and that one student would act as the leader.
Wiley said the KU marching band was organized under the direction of McCamles.
"My guess is that the marching band is 50 years old." Willie said.
Wiley wrote about the Wiley salt. Wiley became one of the bands in 1934 when they were on band members. He served until 1968
Wiley said he considered KU a conservative university as far as balanced and well-earned. He said he thought the university's commitment to exemplary because a small band can often produce far better quality than a band with an amateur influence.
The membership of the KU marching band was all male until 1940. During World War II the membership was 80 per cent of the war, the band again became an all male marching band.
Wiley said that being a member of a marching band was a "dirty job."
"To me it is a hard, sweaty, dirty job that belongs to boys, like playing football belongs to boys," he said. "If you should not be expected to do this."
The bands have always been supported by the alumni of the university as well as the state of Kansas, Wiley said.
He said that in 1934 the alumni sponsored a campaign to buy uniforms for the band. The team played time for the final football game.
Carlson sponsored a fund-raising campaign to send the band to the Orange Bake. Every county in Kansas contributed to the fund
In 1948, Kansas Gov. Frank
Russell L. Wiley
. former band director
and $22,000 was raised. The band was taken by special train to the game.
For many years the band was not considered a serious organization on campus, Wiley said.
"We've had to prove ourselves over and over many times," he said.
At one time, the marching band had to practice five days a week at 7 a.m. The reason was that no one was willing to give up time on school day was not organized to include time for band practice.
Wiley said he could remember a variety of experiences that had
confronted the bands in the years he was director.
Wiley said that on certain conditions of cannon he could remember dust storms that were so bad he could not see members of the team and they there were also band members who fainted on stage during the battle.
Wiley said there was a fragrance of roses and marching band. This spirit was exhibited when the band was flown to Houston for the Blue Band concert.
After the game, the band hit the bridge. The trip one plane developed engine trouble and the same group of bandmen that was left in Kansas to continue their tour.
Wiley said there was difficulty in flying the planes and it never left Houston. The plane was brought back from Houston, and they had to fly twice the second time they had to wait to land and when they reached the game it was over.
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The men never complained, Wiley said. The trip to Houston promised a great deal of difficulties—both the trouble with the planes and the rest of the band, in that they did not know what to do in practice on the Houston field before the game—yet the bands remained fine-natured and unstressed.
Another memorable event in the history of the band was the award to former President Elsaption Wiley said it was exciting to see a president initiated into the music of a youth organization.
'Immortals' Back in Print
The KU marching band was also present at the Orange Bowl game in 1969. The band was flown to Florida for the game.
A series of four short stories by E. Gunn, lecturer in English and journalism at the University of Kansas have gone a long way since they were published.
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The stories, enlisted "The Immortals," were collected as a novel in 1962 and reprinted in 1988. Last year the novel became a movie on ABC TV under the title of "The Immortal." This fall it is an hour-long weekly series.
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