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poses with her senior boots and trombone. Abat is the fiisi l«
senior band member. Two other females joined the band m his;,
with Abat.
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■ Andrea Abat carded a stir when
she became one of the first women
to join the Fighting Texas Aggie
Band. Now, foyr years later, she has
be come the first female band mem-
H|r to receive senior boots.
■ Abat joined the band with two
other women in the fall of 1985, but
is the only original female member
remaining.
■ She said she worked hard for four
years to earn her boots, anticipating
the first day she could wear them.
■ “I was wary the first day of class,”
she said.
■ “All die freshman were running
for the senior boots. Everyone no
tices when a senior cadet walks into
class.”
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joining the band during the summer
conference before her freshman
year.
“I saw the band perform in a film
and decided I wanted to join,” she
said.
Of the 300 band members, only
seven are women.
“I’m glad I was the first woman,”
she said. ”li was essential that some
one make it that first year.”
Abat said she considered herself a
role model and thought that she had
to do well and set an example for
those who would join the hand after
her.
“I didn’t expect special treat
ment,” she said. “I had to do the
same things as my buddies.
“When I came here I was deter
mined to make it, so I went the extra
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one and kept up with my studies and
duties.
"Now, some cadets come in and
aren’t trying so hard. They think it
will be easVi
“1 watch Freshmen to make sure
they keep up and work hard.”
Abat said she wanted to be able to
tell her children about marching in
four Cotton Bowls, but the NCAA
restrictions against Texas A&M
changed that dream.
“I was very disappointed,” she
said. “I was in a construction class
when the news came. I’m in there
with a lot of my buddies from the
band and we were all raising cain.”
After graduating in May, Abat
will be commissioned into the Army.
She said she wants to work for
military intelligence in Europe. “I’m
not sure what I’ll do after that.”
Abat will take a lot of memories
with her, including stepping onto
the field in New York for the first
game.
“I was scared to death!” she said.
“Then we heard the announcer and
the crowd went wild. Everybody was
cheering for us and we stepped off
into our drill. I forgot about every
thing else but the crowd cheering,”
she said.
What she will remember most, she
said, is the friends she made in the
band.
“Our freshman year, we are lined
up against the wall and told to look
at our best friends,” she said.
“We look sideways at someone we
had never seen before. I didn’t know
the guy next to me from Adam. Now
I realize these are the people that I
want in my wedding. I want to keep
in touch with them.”
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