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Toler
(Continued from page 1)
“He didn’t like all the hoopla that
went along with (the presidency),”
Toler explained of Carter. “He nor
mally didn’t request military honors,
but there was one situation when I
was lucky enough to be able to count
as one of the few who played for
him.”
Toler is a graduate of Squadron
Officers School, Air Command and
Staff College and the Air War Col-
lege.
His awards and decorations in
clude the Legion of Merit, the Mer
itorious Service Medal, the Air Force
Commendation Medal, the Phil
ippine Presidential Unit Citation,
the Vietnam Service Medal and the
American Spirit Honor Medal. In
1975, Toler was selected as one of
the Outstanding Young Men in
America.
Despite his worldly experiences,
Toler says it is not a transition at all
to come to College Station.
“Our family has lived all over the
world, and we’ve always made the
most of any situation that we went
into, as far as our family is concer
ned,” Toler said. “But we’re back
home now, where our roots are.”
Toler has been married to his
wife, Catherine, for 25 years. They
have three sons — Ray Jr., who is a
senior at George Mason University
in Fairfax, Virginia; Eric, who is a se
nior at A&M Consolidated High
School in College Station; and
Bryan, who is a junior at Consol
idated.
The Aggie Band is the largest that
Toler has directed. He was recruited
by Haney, who retired last spring af
ter 17 years as director of the Aggie
Band. Haney handpicked Toler to
take charge of the approximately
300-member organization.
Toler grew up with Haney in
Marlin. Haney was band director in
Mexia while Toler was in the Marlin
High School band. The towns are 30
miles apart, and in the summers,
Haney taught Toler trombone les
sons.
“We’ve just had a marvelous
relationship all these years,” Toler
said of he and Haney.
“I kept in touch with him over the
years throughout my Air Force ca
reer.
“It’s a unique honor to have been
sought and chosen for this position,”
Toler said. “Col. Haney called me
about three years ago and told me
that he was going to retire in the
next few years. He was interested in
my coming down and looking at the
place. I was in the middle of a very
successful career in the Air Force,
but I came down to look. When I saw
everything, I couldn’t help it. I fell in
love with the place.
“I couldn’t believe the spirit and
the drive the band had and just the
general atmosphere (of A&M). I was
awed, quite frankly, from the very
first moment.
“I had seen the Aggie Band when
I was an undergraduate at TCU, but
you can’t really appreciate it until
you are here and in the middle of it.”
Toler said he has been in colleges
and universities all over the United
States, as well as overseas, and he be
lieves there is no place like Texas
A&M.
“There’s nothing that matches the
student body here,” Toler said of
A&M. “We’re large, but we’re not a
bunch of numbers here. The stu
dents are individuals and treat one
another that way.”
Toler said he accepts the responsi
bility as Aggie Band director with
confidence, but also with respect and
awe for those men who preceded
him.
“It’s a great honor, but beyond
that, it’s very large shoes to fill,”
Toler said. “I step into this position
with a great amount of respect for
the three men that precede me —
Col. Dunn, Col. Adamstand Col. Ha
ney.”
As Aggie Band director, Toler
pledges to maintain the band’s dis
tinctive precision marching style.
“We do the thing that we do best
better than anyone else in the
world,” he said of the band’s march
ing style. “A man would be a fool to
change that.” Toler said it will be
easy to maintain that style with his
military background.
Some minor changes have been
implemented by Toler. To help im
prove the band’s public appearance
image, there is a new haircut policy
enabling cadets in the band to grow
their hair longer than in the past.
To improve retention, especially
among the freshman class, Toler has
worked to see that all band members
are treated with dignity and human
ity. To accomplish this, there is less
punitive discipline for the band as a
unit.
One of the most significant
changes that has been made is that
the whole band rehearses every af
ternoon Monday through Thursday
in the Adams Band Hall. Previously,
the band only practiced its music
once or twice during the week. The
new emphasis on precision musical
quality is to add spirit to the music
the band plays.
“The Aggie Band has been the
pre-eminent military marching band
in the country,” Toler said of his or
ganization. “We want to continue to
work on our musicianship and im
prove our playing. We want our
playing to match our marchman-
ship.”
Toler’s long-term goal for the
band is to see its size continue to
gradually increase.
“I am very hopeful that in the
next three years we can be at 300
(band members) consistently,” Toler
said.
Toler commented on the experi
ence of working with the student
leaders of the Aggie Band, which is a
major unit of the A&M Corps of Ca
dets.
“I was a commander for 18 of my
23 years in the Air Force. As a com
mander you depend on your non
commissioned officers and your sub
ordinate officers to help you run the
organization,” said Toler, who plans
to use the student leaders in the
same manner.
“We have the greatest leadership
laboratory in the world working ev
ery day with the Aggie Band out on
the drill field. It’s a phenomenal ex
perience for the men and women
who come through the Corps of Ca
dets to gain leadership traits that will
stand them well, whether they’re
captains of industry or captains of
the military.”
Toler said the band belongs to all
Aggies.
“We’re all playing in the same
band. We want people to come over
here and feel welcome,” he said.
“We want the people from around
the campus to know where we are
and that they’re welcome over here
and to come look around. We really
encourage people to come out to
drill rehearsal.”
Cadet Col. Alan Blackmon, com
bined band commander of the Aggie
Band, spoke highly of the new direc
tor.
W orkshop
(Continued from page 3)
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areas for personalized advice on job-
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$5 charge for lunch.
Registration will continue
through Wednesday or until the ros
ter fills up. Interested seniors may
sign up from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in ei
ther the MSC flag room or the
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