A funny thing happened . .
Wayward bus starts busy Band Day
By JACKI CAMPBELL
"We are pleased that you have accepted our invitation to participate in Band Day. Your number in the parade and at the football field is --."
Thus began a seven page list of instructions sent to 85 high school band directors in preparation for last Saturday's Band Day program. The instructions did not, however, cover some of the problems which arose.
BAND NUMBER 35, from Horton high school, left their school 80 miles north of here at 6:30 a.m. A few miles down the road the bus driver discovered he had forgotten some of the students. Back to Horton, depart again—45 minutes behind schedule.
Meanwhile, in Lawrence, four visiting members of Horton's band were getting ready for their 8 o'clock relay pick-up at Murphy Hall. Their buses were going to pick them up so the band could stay together.
Staff photo by Lynniel Q. VanBenschoten
"WOULDN'T YA KNOW, IN FRONT OF 45,000 PEOPLE MY PLUME WOULD FALL OFF"
Atchison County Community High School Band members make final adjustments before Saturday's half-time mass band presentation. They were one of 85 visiting high school bands from Kansas and Missouri.
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At 7:50 a.m., the four left Hashinger. At 7:52 a.m. they returned—to get a trombone and majorette's baton they had forgotten. At 7:55 a.m. they left again when they arrived at Murphy, they began to wait.
THEY WAITED and waited and worried and waited. At 8:45—15 minutes before the parade started —an empty bus from Horton sped into Murphy's driveway and honked.
One of the girls saw it and said, "I wonder what in the world that empty bus is doing here."
Another exclaimed, "They forgot us!"
"Oh no!"
"Well, they can't march without us!" (One of the forgotten was the majorette, two were twirlers, and one was a first clarinet player.)
THE FOUR RAN to the bus, jumped on and learned that the rest of the band was already lining up for the morning parade through Lawrence.
Their flustered bus driver, trying to "explain the whole situation in one minute," peeled out, they said, knocking down two of the four girls still standing in the bus aisle.
"He almost hit one car," said one girl.
"And he sure shifted—grinded those gears fast," added another.
Their next problem was finding one of the other Horton buses to get one girl's clarinet.
"We finally found it six blocks from where we were supposed to be," one of the students later reported.
THEY GOT OFF one bus, got
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They found their band about ten minutes before they began marching.
How did they feel "Whew!" one exclaimed.
Tom McCready, Horton's band director and 1965 KU graduate, said the weather was also a problem. Trombone slides and trumpet valves froze. It was 22 degrees during the parade.
In past years, bands and directors have complained about having to march so close together. Bunched up, it is very difficult to keep a steady beat because many times one cannot hear his own cadence.
McCready spoke about this: "I think it's unfortunate when you have to do it that way, but when you have just bands you can't do it any differently." He was in the KU marcheing band for four years and assisted in former Band Day parades.
The parade, with a rather scarce audience, was a semi-success this year. Cold weather probably had a lot to do with it.
During the half-time program, the bands, under the direction of Russell L. Wiley, director of KU bands, formed the words "KU Band Day—1966" on the field, and played "The Crimson and the Blue" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." It was a colorful display of beautiful music.
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