It just occurred to me why Harvard's pep band might not be able to stay
overnight.  Perhaps former Harvard President Lawrence Summers was told that
the director of the pep band was a woman and that hiring a bus and booking
hotel rooms would involve some mathematical calculations.  Of course,
Summers knows that doing the math might be too much for a woman to handle
;-)

On 3/16/06, Mark Lewin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Perhaps we should take up a collection for those poor folks at Harvard so
> they can hire a local band.  For the past two years in Albany, the Harvard
> pep band has accompanied the team and fans, playing during the Friday
> semi-finals. However, despite advancing to the finals both last year and the
> year before, there was no sign of Harvard's pep band at the finals on
> Saturday night.  I understand that it costs money to transport and house
> band members on an overnight trip, but this is Harvard.
> Since they have won the national championship once in the past, you would
> think that some alumnus or group of alumni might be tapped for some expense
> money to finance the pep band.  It's not like all the Harvard alumni are
> poor farmers (actually, a lot of them are Democrats so that might explain
> it).  I would think that Harvard would be embarrassed to be playing Cornell
> for the ECACHL championship and have the only music in the house coming from
> the Cornell pep band
>
>
> On 3/16/06, Arik Marks <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > In 89 one hearty Cornell trumpeter stayed to play cheers for Vermont at
> > the
> > ECAC's.  (I'm assuming they were playing Harvard)
> >
> > On 3/15/06, TODD NIELSON <[log in to unmask] > wrote:
> > >
> > > Way back in 1986, the Clarkson and Cornell pep bands played together
> > at
> > > ECACs at the Boston Garden.
> > >
> > > -Todd
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Dianne Miller" < [log in to unmask]>
> > > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:15 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Bands my behind.-huge chauvanistic coup (ADMIN)
> > >
> > >
> > > > At the Badger Hockey Showdown in 1998, I was part of a four-person
> > > Cornell
> > > > pep band (three trumpets and a piccolo) for the Cornell-BGSU
> > game.  We
> > > then
> > > > played with the Wisconsin Alumni pep band in the Yale-UW game.
> > > >
> > > > Dianne Miller
> > > > Cornell '99
> > > >
> > > > >From: Arik Marks <[log in to unmask]>
> > > > >Reply-To: - Hockey-L - The College Hockey Discussion List
> > > > ><[log in to unmask]>
> > > > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > > > >Subject: Re: Bands my behind.-huge chauvanistic coup (ADMIN)
> > > > >Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:20:39 -0500
> > > > >
> > > > >I played for Cornell's and Vermont's bands two weekends apart, but
> > not
> > > the
> > > > >same weekend...
> > > > >
> > > > >Arik Marks
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >On 3/15/06, Wayne T Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Has anyone ever played for the bands of different schools at
> > hockey
> > > > > > games on successive nights?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > cheers, wayne
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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