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FLOTUS ~ @SPELMANCOLLEGE (May 15, 2011)
First Lady Michelle Obama delivers the commencement address to graduates of Spelman College on Sunday, May 15, 2011, at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park, Ga.
Photos by: Erik S. Lesser / AP
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[founder of FAMU Marching 100] William P. Foster, RIP
He enrolled at the University of Kansas “to get a good education” and when segregation prevented him from fully participating, Foster held his “head high” and “worked toward the next achievement,” he told the Wichita Eagle in 2006 … After receiving his bachelor’s degree in music education, he earned a master’s in 1950 from Wayne State University in Detroit and a doctorate in 1955 from the Teachers College at Columbia University … He directed high school and college bands, including at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, before joining Florida A&M University … When he formed the Marching 100, he coined the name as a goal for membership, and the band continues to use the name even though it has grown to more than 400 members … He directed the McDonald’s All-American High School Band for a dozen years beginning in 1980 … He also wrote two books, “Band Pageantry” (1968), which was widely used as a handbook to his distinct style, and a memoir, “The Man Behind the Baton,” published after he retired in 1998 … Band members called their charismatic director “the Law,” because he wanted them to do it his way or not at all.
#shoutout to Drumline.
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[founder of FAMU Marching 100] William P. Foster, RIP
He enrolled at the University of Kansas “to get a good education” and when segregation prevented him from fully participating, Foster held his “head high” and “worked toward the next achievement,” he told the Wichita Eagle in 2006 … After receiving his bachelor’s degree in music education, he earned a master’s in 1950 from Wayne State University in Detroit and a doctorate in 1955 from the Teachers College at Columbia University … He directed high school and college bands, including at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, before joining Florida A&M University … When he formed the Marching 100, he coined the name as a goal for membership, and the band continues to use the name even though it has grown to more than 400 members … He directed the McDonald’s All-American High School Band for a dozen years beginning in 1980 … He also wrote two books, “Band Pageantry” (1968), which was widely used as a handbook to his distinct style, and a memoir, “The Man Behind the Baton,” published after he retired in 1998 … Band members called their charismatic director “the Law,” because he wanted them to do it his way or not at all.
#shoutout to Drumline.
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