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Thursday • September 8,Hay • Sepi
Booh celebrates 100 years of the Aggie Ban
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Interviews, photos
reflect band history
By Karen Broyles
The Battalion
THE BIG PARTY AFTER
THE AGGIES BEAT THE
HELL OUTTA O.U.
| SATURDAY, SEPT. 10™ AT 8PM I
One hundred years of history have finally
been put to paper.
“The Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band,” an his
torical account of the Texas Aggie Band, is
now on bookstore shelves.
Donald B. Powell, director of Business
Services for Texas A&M and president of the
Texas Aggie Band Association, co-wrote the
book with wife Mary Jo, the associate direc
tor of University Relations, to commemorate
the band’s 100th anniversary.
“This is the first book ever written solely
about the Aggie Band,” Powell said.
Powell also wanted to record the band’s
history before the people who were part of
the history were gone. Any book written lat
er might be less accurate without the people
he and Mary Jo interviewed, he said.
The Powells started their research two
years ago by interviewing dozens of former
band members, relatives of members, and
former and current directors.
After looking through almost 900 pho
tographs, all donated, they selected 121 for
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the book, Mary Jo Powell said.
“We picked photos that would represent
all the eras and the aspects of life in the Ag
gie Band,” she said,"which was almost as
hard as compiling the list of band members
since 1894, which
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ROPED OFF
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KELLY
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AND
JACK
INGRAM
The Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band marched to Bryan on Armistice Day
in 1919. Courtesy of Texas A&M University Archives
Photo courtesy of Texas A&M Universityincl stem
1899 The Fightin’ Texas Aggie Band dltTadooC
turned, or if they were different peoplif.d on '
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similar names. V , r .
Powell said that the thread of conliBf
between the directors of the Texas®’"V’ ' ■ i
Band was the most fascinating discovJ e a s : ’ ‘
made during the research. | oshv areas
All the band directors sinceJf| fi t
Holick, the founder of the band, hadkE|’, mc } we p
the next director at some point in(■g a j c [
life,” Donald B. Powell said. “Later,
person would take over the band wheiH lsness ”
director retired.” > Bwertnersa
Mary Jo Powell, a Wisconsin native was pin
learned about Aggie traditions from"
husband, said she’s amazed atthesii
lifetime friendships that he formedwM
the band.
“I learned how true that is for so
the former band members,” she said.
Powell said he is pleased attheposil
response that advanced orders ofthetf
have received.
“One man called me and said thathok ,
day’s work at his office because hespr L.
day reading the book,” Powell said, “Wtejjp-'Jl LV\
finished, he ordered two more copies."
Proceeds from sales of the book willn| i" n P T
the Texas Aggie Band for operationalK u
penses, and the Powells will sign copiej
the book on Sept. 10 in the MSC Bookste
had 7,000 names on
it,” she said.
Records weren't
always kept carefully
in past years, and
people didn't always
spell their last names
the same way. The
Powells had to deter
mine if similar
names but different
spellings belonged to
two people or just
one person.
Keeping track of
people coming and go
ing during both world
wars and the Great
Depression made
compiling the list
harder, because of the
research required to
verify whether the
same people had re-
ut during
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