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Groups use musical talent to represent A&M
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By LIBBY SCHIMMER
Reporter
Say it with music.
The inspiring words of Irving
Berlin are reflected in the goal of the
musical groups on the Texas A&M
campus — to represent A&M
through music.
“We propose to represent A&M
using music as our avenue,” says
Mike Montana, president of the
Singing Cadets.
An additional goal is the pursuit
of musical excellence.
Edith Jacobs, president of the
Women’s Chorus, says, “We have a
great love for music and sharing it
with others.”
A&M is represented by six musi
cal groups other than the Aggie
Band, which play music ranging
from classical pieces to modern jazz.
The Vocal Music Office in the
basement of the Memorial Student
Center houses four of these groups:
the Women’s Chorus, the Singing
Cadets, the Century Singers and the
Reveliers. The Texas A&M Sym
phonic Band is headquartered in the
Band Hall and the Texas A&M Jazz
Band also is a recognized student
club.
These groups serve as ambassa
dors of A&M on campus as well as at
various activities in Bryan-College
Station. They also perform out of
town.
But representing A&M is not the
only reason members participate.
“It offers them a chance to keep
up with their instrument,” says Bill
Dean, director of the Symphonic
Band. “It’s good therapy, students
often tell me, from the daily grind of
their studies.”
The Jazz Band seeks to educate its
audience.
“We represent a form of music
that is a dying art,” says James Steib-
ing, director of the Jazz Band. “Our
goal is to keep it alive.”
The price these students pay to
represent A&M and pursue their
music is a high one, consisting of
four to five hours of practice a week
and countless performances, despite
the fact that A&M offers no degree
in music.
The groups’ dedication to musical
excellence is evident in their list of
awards and performances.
In May 1984, the 55-member
‘Dapper’ bank robber still eluding police
Associated Press
DALLAS — A still-free bandit
blamed for one of Texas’ longest-
running bank robbery sprees began
his career with amateurish disguises
and sometimes klutzy entrances, au
thorities say.
In what law enforcement authori
ties believe was his first Dallas-area
robbery seven years ago, he wore a
fake goatee ana dark glasses.
“I noticed him because he came
up to the front door and walked into
it. It made enough noise,” said a for
mer bank employee who watched a
robbery at Pan American National
Bank in 1978.”
Then the man wore an open-neck
shirt and zippered jacket. He also
had a wig and tinted glasses. But
now he’s been dubbed the “dapper
bandit” because he has taken to
sporting a three-piece suit.
He is suspected in 14 bank rob
beries where $500,000 was taken,
and has eluded police despite a
$15,000 reward for his capture and
photos posted in numerous Dallas-
area bank lobbies.
The bandit has hit eight banks in
the past 20 months, four of them in
the past five months. Police said the
man robbed the Swiss Avenue Bank
and Medallion National within two
hours on Aug. 27.
Authorities believe the bandit’s
first target was Pan American Bank,
where the bank employee who asked
that her name not be used said
money fell out of the bandit’s brief
case when he hurried out of the
bank.
“He just wasn’t as cool as I under
stand he has been since,” she said.
Authorities said the man has an
uncanny knowledge of bank proce
dures and has since become a master
at subtle disguises, including black-
rimmed glasses and a thick, brown
moustache that could be fake.
Women’s Chorus performed in En
gland and Wales, where they were
awarded the Valley Forge Honor
Certificate for excellence in commu
nity programs.
The 60-member Singing Cadets,
the oldest and probably best- known
vocal music group at A&M, has trav
eled to such places as Rumania,
Mexico and Hawaii and has ap
peared on the Mike Douglas Show
and the Ed Sullivan Show.
The group also served for eight
years as escorts and entertainers for
the Miss Teenage America Pageant.
The Singing Cadets hold open prac
tices every Friday before home foot
ball games in the MSC flagroom at 5
p.m.
“We have traveled more places
and spoken to more people about
A&M than any other group on
campus,” Montana says.
The Jazz Band’s 20 members per
form before each A&M home foot
ball game in the MSC flagroom and
will participate in the Central Park
Jazz Festival next semester. They
also hold open practices in the Com
mons every Monday night at 7 p.m.
The 85-member Symphonic Band
will perform fof the Bryan Rotary
Club this fall, as well as the Houston
and Dallas A&M Mothers’ Clubs
next spring.
The Century Singers is a mixed
choir with 55 members, and the Rev
eliers is a jazz ensemble consisting of
12 vocalists and four instrumental
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