The Blast From The Past
During the Homecoming Weekend of November 1950, sixty-five former Michigan bandsmen attended a reunion which resulted in the formation of the University of Michigan Band Alumni Association. In 1953, the Alumni Band began to join the regular band playing and marching at the Homecoming pre-game and half-time shows. This Blast from the Past—a phrase coined by Band Alumnus, Roger Jacobi, and used ever since—has become an annual event of Michigan's Homecoming weekend.
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Famous quotes containing the words the past and/or blast:
“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“When autonomy is respected, the two-year-old does not carry this unfinished task into later stages of growth. In adolescence, the youngster will again concentrate on independence, but he won’t have to blast the roof off the second time around if it is already well established.”
—Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)