Colgate University 1939 Yearbook (Hamilton, NY) - Full Access

All-American Tooters The Colgate Varsity Band, which has been slowly but surely climbing to a place among the nation's best, reached a new peak this year, extending its musical offerings not only to Colgate, but to several towns and cities in other parts of the state. As a marching band it attracted special attention, both for its difficult maneuvers dur– ing the halves and its specialties at the beginning of each game. As a concert band it gave more out-of-town concerts than ever before, travelling to Oxford, N . Y ., for its first spring concert . Ogdensburg, the city famous for the band's first trip last year, welcomed the musicians back again this year, the concert being even better attended and applauded than the previous year. The annual spring concert at the Colgate Memorial Chapel was likewise a huge success, with glowing tributes being paid to the en- tire organization. At the end of the year the band was offered the biggest job in its history, that of playing at the Baseball Centennial in Cooperstown . The bright spot in the football season was the rise of the horn tooters to a position rivaling the famed All-American cheering section . Be– fore the Syracuse classic eleven orange clad bandsmen gave a hectic exhibition of a fumbling, stumbling Syracuse team to top off a season of rousing antics . In the Duke, Cornell, and N . Y . U . games cos– tumes ranged from the regular maroon and white uniforms to hobo's clothes. All in all, a very successful season was enjoyed, both by the band and its many audiences. Director George L . Palmer, as well as Stu– dent Leader Robert W. Potts, Manager Clarence H . Stacy and the corps of scrubs who assisted them, well deserve the praises heaped upon them. As for the future, it looks even brighter with Chester A. Van Doren as the newly elected Student Leader and Worth Weed M R. L. G. PAL~t ER ably filling the shoes of Manager Stacy. Director 136