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Fall semester drum majors announced
by Aggie Band director Col. Ray Toler
By SELINA GONZALEZ
Of The Battalion Staff
The Pulse of Aggieland will
march to the beat of different drum
majors in the fall.
Col, Ray Toler, director of the
Aggie Band, recently announced the
appointment of the band’s three new
drum majors.
Junior Russell Griffin with A
Company, a marketing major from
Plano, is the band’s new head drum
major.
B Company’s Richard Wariner, a
junior business administration major
from Houston, is the band’s infantry
drum major.
Junior Chris Alexander with A
Battery, a mechanical engineering
major from Bryan, is the artillery
drum major.
“This (drum major) is probably
the single most desired position in
the Aggie Band,” Toler said.
Selection was based on band
members’ leadership, musical and
conducting abilities.
Griffin, who was a drum major in
high school, said he felt privileged to
be selected.
“I am honored that I was selected
for such a high position,” he said. “I
I his (drum major) is
probably the single most
desired position in the
Aggie Band.”
— Col. Ray Toler,
Aggie Band director
have always wanted to be head drum
major.”
The selection of drum majors is a
sit-week process consisting of two
tnout periods.
First, all junior band members
wto were interested in becoming a
dmm major learned the basic me
chanics and responsibilities of being
a drum major.
This year 19 band members went
through the first tryout period,
which consisted of a mini-drill on the
band field. At the first tryout, the
candidates performed without the
band.
Next, the selection committee nar
rowed the number of candidates to
nine. These candidates had four
weeks to revise and prepare for the
final two-day competition.
“On the first day of the competi
tion, each candidate conducts a
number of songs to see how the
band reacts to you and to see how
musically inclined the band can react
to your direction,” Griffin said. “It is
important to clearly communicate
the directions to the band.”
On the second day, candidates
g erformed drills on the field with all
and members except seniors.
Drum majors’ responsibilities con
sist of preparing drills and explain
ing them to the band.
Griffin said if he could change
one aspect of the Aggie Band, it
would be the band-Corps of Cadets
relations.
“There seems to be some kind of
conflict between the band and the
other Corps members,” Griffin said.
He said the conflict exists on both
sides; and he attributes this to the
fact that at times, band members
have to engage in activities that dif
fer from those of other Corps mem
bers.
The best aspect of the Aggie Band
is the amount of emotion the perfor
mance instills in some members of
the audience, he said.
Griffin said he is looking forward
to working with Wariner and Alex
ander.
“They are the ideal people, and
their opinions will be of great value,”
he said.
Griffin, Wariner and Alexander
will begin working together as drum
majors at Final Review.
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Cleanup continues in areas hit by floods, storms
Associated Press
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areas hit by flooding and storms, residents
in Parker County’s Horseshoe Bend com
munity were, complaining they had no
warning the Brazos River was about to in
vade their homes.
“They’re supposed to notify us,” resident
Pam Spikes said. “The river came up Mon
day and they said it’s nothing to worry
about. ... Nobody notified anyone about
this.”
In 1981, the community’s fire trucks
sounded sirens to warn residents in this
town west of Fort Worth of flood waters
about to descend on the area. Last year, be
fore what some residents call a minor flood,
the sirens, flashing lights and loudspeakers
from the trucks again urged residents to
move to high ground.
“There is no warning system (here) as to
sirens,” said Parker County Fire Marshall
Mike Paschal. “There is no audible warning
system for all the community. There was a
flood like this in 1981 and the people here
know if the ground is heavily saturated,
(the river) is going to rise.”
He said Horseshoe Bend residents are
warned by telephone, door-to-door notifi
cation or some other method.
Mike Bukala, spokesman for the Brazos
hver Authority, which owns and operates
bssum Kingdom Lake and dam, said nor-
rral warning procedures were followed
when the decision was made to begin releas
ing waters from the lake Thursday. The
Brizos River feeds into the lake.
“When we have to drop a gate, we have
to start calling people downstream and let
them know the water is coming,” Bukala
said.
Parker County Fire Department Capt.
Donnie Hampton said he was notified by
Possum Kingdom officials all four times a
gate was opened at the dam, beginning at
7:15 a.m. Thursday.
But by then, the rains — unofficially as
much as 18 inches in some areas — had al
ready flooded parts of the county, he said.
Lt. B.G. Watson of Brownwood Police
Department said Sunday that the sunny
and warm weekend weather was helping his
U X
I here is no audible warning
system for all the community.
There was a flood like this in
1981 and the people here know
if the ground is heavily
saturated, (the river) is going to
rise”
— Mike Paschal,
Parker County Fire Marshal
town dry out. Brownwood was one of the
areas hit hardest by the flooding.
Mayor Bert Massey called the flooding
the “worst disaster to ever hit Brownwood.”
Massey estimated that damage in the busi
ness district alone will exceed millions of
dollars.
But Watson said most Brownwood resi
dents had either returned to their homes or
had found temporary shelter with relatives.
“Things are shaping up nicely; all the
roads are open and the creeks are down,”
Watson said. “Now it’s just a process of try
ing to get cleaned up and getting back to
business.”
The American Red Cross will help North
Texans get back on their feet by opening a
disaster relief center at the Gouts United
Methodist Church in Weatherford.
Polly Brumsfield, a spokeswoman for the
American Red Cross, said the center will
open Monday at 9 a.m. She said volunteers
will interview people with disaster-related
losses until 6 p.m.
The Red Cross opened 1 1 shelters in re
cent days in Brown, Comanche, Cook and
Young counties.
“We will be providing emergency assis
tance such as food, clothing and shelter,”
Brumsfield said. “But each person will be
interviewed one-on-one to see what is re
quired.”
In Houston, meanwhile, residents in w'est
Harris County were picking up debris left
behind from a tornado that cut a path
about three-quarters of a mile wide over a
5-square-mile area Friday evening. Damage
was estimated at $20 million, but no injuries
were reported.
The all-glass facade of the First City Bear
Creek Bancorp, of Texas building looked
like it was under construction as scores of
workers operated cranes, hauled away de
bris and replaced some of the 138 glass
panels that were blown out by high winds.
The National Weather Service received
unconfirmed reports Friday of at least a
dozen tornadoes from Bryan to Galveston,
but Bear Creek residents have no doubt a
twister touched down in their neighbor
hood.
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