2009-10 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP & BLAST FROM THE PAST INFORMATION LOOK INSIDE TO REGISTER NOW!... 10 FALL Vol. 61 #2 2009 WEBSITE UPDATE .......... 2 FROM THE PRESIDENT ... 3 1969 REUNION .............. 4 GOLF OUTING ............... 6 BLAST INFORMATION ...... 8 MMB CLASS RING ......... 9 MEMBERSHIP FORMS ...... 10 ANNUAL REPORTS ......... 14 THE FORGOTTEN TOUR .. 17 JAZZ BAND REUNION ..... 18 ALUMNI UPDATE ............ 19 REGIONAL ALUMNI BANDS 22 MMB PHOTO VIDEO ....... 23 fanfare YOUR DONATIONS ......... 24 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIG AN BAND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: YESTERDAY, TODAY, AN D T O M O R R O W UMBAA Concert Band Presents Premiere Performance The charter version of the volunteer Michigan Bands alumni, Board Ensembles Committee, at University of Michigan Band whose class years range from 1954 [email protected] Alumni Association Concert Band to 2008. The group rehearses one The UMBAA extends very special presented its inaugural concert evening per week. New members thanks to Director of Bands under the direction of Dr. John are absolutely welcome — and the Michael Haithcock for saying YES, Pasquale on Sunday, June 7, 2009 best parts? GREAT FUN, NO Dr. John Pasquale for saying YES, AUDITIONS, and WONDERFUL at Huron High School in Ann Arbor. and Mr. Rich Ingram and the Music MUSIC (and the after-rehearsal- The band presented popular Department of Ann Arbor Huron glows at The Blue Tractor aren’t classics by Karl L. King, Leroy High School for making this bad either)! Anderson, Francois Joseph Gossec, performance possible. Meredith Willson, Ralph Vaughan For more information contact Williams, Jacques Offenbach and Sheri Moore, UMBAA Executive Louis Elbel (of course)! The UMBAA Concert Band is in its first season. Both conductor and musicians are Members of the 2009 University of Michigan Concert Band rehearse at Revelli Hall under the direction of Dr. John Pasquale 1 fanfare The Latest: THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BAND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Revelli Hall 350 East Hoover Street WWW.UMBAA.ORG Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104-3707 Fall 2009 Vol. 61 #2 Gets a Facelift M Fanfare is the newsletter of the University of Michi- gan Band Alumni Association The Board of Directors is very pleased to announce the We’re on the WEB: www.umbaa.org Gail Ferguson Stout ‘78 Editor launch of a revamped and revitalized UMBAA website. Jane L. Namenye ‘73 Art Director After much work on deciding what we needed to adjust Michael Kardasz ’93 President Ex-Officio Dick Gaskill, Jenny Dalton, Pete Dalton, Photographers (pretty much everything), the committee chose Enertia Submissions for M FANFARE can be sent to Solutions to put our plan into action. The site should be [email protected] available at www.umbaa.org in late July, 2009. There [email protected] or mailed to M Fanfare Editor, Revelli Hall, will be 7 parts to the site: 350 East Hoover Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-3702 UMBAA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Main Page AND THEIR FIRST YEAR IN THE MICHIGAN BANDS TERM EXPIRES 2009 Director of Bands Kristen Acton '01 Michael L. Haithcock UMBAA Registration VICE PRESIDENT [email protected] Register for Annual Membership and Blast From [email protected] Peter Cubba '84 Associate Director of Bands The Past online! Scott Boerma TREASURER [email protected] [email protected] Sheri Peterson Moore '91 Associate Director of Bands Calendar of Events SECRETARY Rodney Dorsey [email protected] [email protected] Matt Miller '99 The History of The Association [email protected] Assistant Director of Bands Matthew Pickus '88 John D. Pasquale [email protected] [email protected] About UMBAA (includes information about TERM EXPIRES 2010 ACTIVE PAST PRESIDENTS current officers and our mission) Dennis Gmerek '72 Joseph Dobos '67 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Dave Finn '72 Contact Us COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE John Lukacs '80 Howard Gourwitz '66 [email protected] [email protected] Salo Korn '65 Peter Larson '85 Donations [email protected] [email protected] Linda Stone Ridley '73 Michael Lee '93 [email protected] [email protected] Our budget requirements restricted us to the bare MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Scott Ludwig '60 necessities for this year, but in the future we plan to add Susan Sutherland '86 [email protected] [email protected] other functions to the site. Plans include adding a GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE TERM EXPIRES 2011 Jean Moorehead Libs '74 members-only section that will allow UMBAA members to Richard Alder ‘69 [email protected] login and connect with other members, adding an archive [email protected] Peter Dalton ‘81 Greg Poterala '82 of Meeting Minutes, and creating a place for e-voting so [email protected] [email protected] that all members can participate in general membership Michael Kardasz ‘93 Ted Sleder '81 PRESIDENT [email protected] decisions, not just those who represent the organization [email protected] Gail Ferguson Stout '78 at the Annual Meeting at Homecoming. Rochelle Patterson Visser ‘89 [email protected] EDITOR, Mfanfare [email protected] Lauren Peterson ‘02 The Board would like to thank the membership for their [email protected] Gary Straffon '73 MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY patience throughout our troubles with the website. We Webmaster [email protected] Trevor Angood would also like to thank the members of the committee [email protected] 2 From The President It has been a busy year for your encourage you to be active with you can’t make it back to Ann University of Michigan Band UMBAA. This does not mean you Arbor, contact UMBAA and we Alumni Association. Summer must be a Board member, feed can connect you with other Band was once a quiet time for us, hungry Marching Band students Alumni to simply watch a but events have begun to fill our or even attend Homecoming. football game or to participate summer calendars in recent Too often, I think, Band Alumni in a community band. We are years. The first ever UMBAA only see this organization as also looking for Band Alumni Concert Band performed on June “the group that organizes Blast outside of Ann Arbor who want 7. Our redesigned web site From The Past.” Although this is to organize events for UMBAA launched on July 1. The UMBAA an important UMBAA activity, it members. will again be represented at the is only one of many events and Feel free to contact me with any Cherry Festival parade in offerings. questions or comments. Traverse City, Michigan in July. Consider attending Concert and The annual UMBAA golf outing is Symphony Band performances on scheduled for August 2 at The a regular basis. UMBAA hosts a Remember, this is YOUR University of Michigan Golf Spring reception after one of the organization. Course. Soon the school year concerts each year. Consider will start with Band Week and participating in our newly welcome lunch hosted by UMBAA formed UMBAA Concert Band, Go Blue! on August 26. off to a great start and which Michael Kardasz ‘93 All of these events would not be will grow in the years to come. possible without many Reconnect with the experience [email protected] volunteers and participants. I of making music at Michigan. If Member Activities Committee Update Lunch for Our New MMB Members The University of Michigan Band Alumni Association once again will serve lunch to our newest Michigan Wolverines: MMB band members, rank leaders, flags and drumline on Wednesday, August 26, 2009. This will be our sixth year sponsoring this “get to know you” event. We plan to serve pizza, fruit, veggies, cookies, and water. If you would like to help this year in planning, getting food water or ice, baking cookies or helping the day of the event, please end an email to Linda Ridley at [email protected] A Special Gift! Members Helping Members UMBAA alum Bill Crane presented a donation to the Association at its March Board of Directors Meeting. It turns out that Bill’s company CMS Energy of Jackson, Michigan had budgeted funds to support volunteer activities of its employees and Bill’s work with UMBAA qualified for an award! The funds will be added to the Association’s scholarship fund. Thank you Bill and CMS Energy for your contribution!! Editor’s Note: Does YOUR company offer a similar program? Couldn’t hurt to check! Bill Crane 3 40th Anniversary Reunion 1969 University of Michigan Marching Band Is your name on this list? (See the next page) If so, you are invited to come back “home” to Ann Arbor th on September 26, 2009 for a special 40 Anniversary Reunion of the 1969 University of Michigan Marching Band. For many reasons, 1969 was a special year for the Michigan Band. It was Bo Schembechler’s first year as Michigan’s head football coach, and we witnessed the beginning of the era of Michigan football dominance in the Big Ten when the Wolverines upset “The Team of the Century”, the Buckeyes of OSU. It was in 1969 when Drum Major, Mark Brown, began the tradition of the back bend now part of every Michigan Band pre- game. The “Peace Show” was a dramatic statement that was seen on national TV during the height of the Vietnam War which resulted in over 4,000 letters and telegrams sent from across the country. The tradition of the pre-game “floating” Block M began 40 years ago. And, we all have memories of the ‘70 Rose Bowl. These and many more Michigan Band “firsts” made the ’69 Marching Band one of the most exciting in Michigan Band history. Of course, at the time, none of this seemed significant as we were just trying to survive the everyday demands of William Revelli and George Cavender! This year, on September 26, a special day is being planned for all the members of the great Michigan Marching Band of 1969.