Many Band Alumni Join Celebration Of Organization's 35th Anniversary

"Then fight, fight, fight, for we win tonight. . ." echoed along Prescott St. last night, as the Band, celebrating its 35th anniversary, began its second alumni reunion.

Many of the 115 alumni who are expected to participate in today's festivities were there, singing their old clarinet or tuba parts, clinking beer cans in accompaniment. They included Frederick L. Reynolds '20, director and organizer of the first band in 1919.

Registration for the reunion began yesterday afternoon and will continue today, until the alumni band rehearses for its part in half-time ceremonies at the Columbia game.

300 Place Unit Due

With the alumni, the marching band this afternoon will number almost 300. The combined organization will drill to the theme of "Time and Chance Happen to Us All, But the Spirit of the Harvard Band Goes On and On."

Included in the program will be a medley of popular songs for each year since 1919, the founding year, played while the bandsmen form a calender with changing numerals.

A set of dice cubes and other "visual" formations are also planned, according to undergraduate manager Alan S. Nevick '55.

The first band reunion, held in 1949, was the first such even ever staged by any band.

Following the game, a reunion will be staged in an as yet unannounced place. "We'd like to say where it's going to be," Novick noted, "but we haven't got that much in the way of refreshments."