Finally technology permits us to post all we know on this subject, while allowing others to confirm, deny, or expand upon what I put here. I hope we can share memories and gather knowledge. It's all for the "bandies" who've contributed their time and talent over the years to make the Syracuse campus and ethos a better place.
Bands have a unique way of bringing together people of remarkable diversity, simply through the accident in their lives of having picked up a drum stick or some variation of wind instrument. The hard work becomes a bond, and life-long relationships result. My dad, a member of a local American Legion band, never paid for services. He knew a plumber, an electrician, a lawyer, an optician, all fellow bandies, who would provide services for at worst a deep discount. (He, in turn threw unforgettable parties.) Few if any volunteer organizations encompass such diversity.
And so it is and was at Syracuse University, where future teachers, biologists, broadcasters, librarians, politicians, engineers, artists, would all march together for a short time.
I begin this blog around the events of 1970, forty years ago (as this is written), which led to it's current sobriquet, "the Pride of the Orange."
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