2BThe Daily Tar Heel Wednesday. August 22, 1984
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UNC Band begins 81st spirited year
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By RAY JONES
Staff Writer
The Pride of the ACC. The Band ol
Champions. The Marching Tar Heels.
Already 81 years old, UNC's marching
band is almost 300 people strong and
perennially spirited. Led by Major John
Yesulaitis since 1964, the Marching Tar Heels
are the backbone of spirit for Carolina
athletics, present at events ranging from
football games to women's field hockey.
According to Susie Keeter, the band's
president, the band tries to work with the
cheerleaders as a spirit unit. "We try to keep
the spirit up," she said. "It makes a big
difference when the players have the crowd
really behind them."
Band camp for incoming freshman
members began August 16. "The newcomers
come from different schools with different
styles," Yesulaitis said. "We teach them our
style," which is somewhere between military
and corps style.
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Major Yesulaitis is the only paid full-time
staff member of the band. "The tremendous
amount of work involved with running this
band is done by band members volunteering
to do it," he said.
"We're the only major band in the country
that has to operate this way, with so much
done by the students," Keeter said.
"They have so much input," Yesulaitis said.
"They're the ones that make it go. They love
this university so much. I'm so very proud
of them."
Yesulaitis relies on his assistant, Allen Reep,
and the band members for input on the
halftime shows.
"Roughly figured," he said, "for every
minute of performance time we put in one
hour of practice and rehearsal."
Divided into 28 squads for rehearsal
purposes, the band is sometimes required to
learn 140 to 1 50 moves a football game. These
moves must be executed while the members
In addition to Keeter, the student leaders
rr tK KonH qr Riliv Williams, vice nresident;
Nannette Wallace, secretary; and Jay
Osborne, drum major. "We work as a unit
to help Major Y with the band," Keeter said.
There are also two pep bands, one of which
is exclusively for women's sports. Becoming
a pep band member is based on merit. "Every
position is earned," Yesulaitis said. "Seniority
doesn't mean you're automatically in."
Yesulaitis is planning for the whole band
to travel to the football game against Clemson,
and more than half the band will go to the
Wake Forest contest. Post-season competi
tion usually means a trip for most of the band
members to the site of a bowl game.
As for freshmen interested in joining the
band, Yesulaitis said, "Come see us. Don't
be talked out of joining band because of
scholastic worries. But if band interferes with
your grades, drop it. No stigma to that.
"They're the nicest kids in the world, honest.
I can't get enough of this band."
Pride of the ACC.
Major Y directs the Marching Tar Heels.
.The band is beginning its 81st season this year.
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