What Play Is at Wvwc Performing Arts Center May 2018
This Sat, nosotros volition gather at Cebe Ross Memorial Field for the first football game game of the season. Memorial Field….we should remember Cebe Ross. Many take never known of this fable of WVWC athletics. Others may have forgotten, or only known function of the story.
Cebe the Student
This photo from the 1921 Murmurmontis shows Cecil B. Ross as a Freshman in 1919-1920. He was on the Football game and Basketball game Teams, and a member of the Chrestomathean Literary Gild.
The bus of the WVWC football team from 1920-1924 was Bob Higgins (a iii-time All American standout player from Penn State who eventually returned there as head double-decker from 1930-48 and as well played professionally for the Canton Bulldogs in 1920 and 1921.) He was inducted into the College Football game Hall of Fame in 1954 . He certainly must take seen some great potential in young Cebe Ross.
By the 1921-1922 season, Cebe appeared as Halfback and Quarterback and had the reputation of beingness a powerhouse on the team. The photo explanation read:
Cecil Ross, Halfback and Quarter
"Cebe played more or less in all the backfield positions this year. He was in practically every game, showing to especial advantage on the defensive against the University."
By his Senior Year, this is what was listed under his name.
Upon his graduation, Cebe coached at Buckhannon High School for a few seasons, leading them to a State Title in 1924, then returned to Wesleyan in 1925 as Coach of All Sports. That year, he too married his college sweetheart, Mary L. Morgan.
Cebe the Coach
Along with his other athletic duties at WVWC, Cebe coached the football team from 1925-1941, coaching such greats as Cliff Battles (Class of 1933) who was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 1968. Battles joined Earle "Greasy" Neal (Class of 1914) who was also inducted to that trunk in 1969.
During these years, the Bobcats played and defeated such teams as:
- New York Academy
- West Virginia University
- Navy
- Kentucky Academy
- Duquesne University
A Suspension in the Action
Sadly, football game was dealt a major accident when the 1942-1945 seasons were cancelled due to disruptions caused by World War II. During this time, Cebe Ross left Buckhannon to coach at Morris Harvey and to serve in the Navy.
The Pharos had a joyful headline on February 14, 1946. You can read the entire story here .
Cebe, the Family Human
Cebe (Class of 1923) was not the only fellow member of his family to be involved with WVWC.
His older brother, Kelcel (Grade of 1920), was likewise a standout athlete at the school and did some teaching of Concrete Teaching and coaching before leaving to pursue his calling equally a lawyer.
Blood brother Perce Joseph Ross (Course of 1925) was a successful businessman in Buckhannon, operating the Perce Ross Men's and Ladies' Clothing Store for many years. He was also a Trustee of the College from 1961-1976 and served in the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1939-1946.
Wife, Mary Morgan Ross (Class of 1923), was the Apportionment Librarian and Instructor of Library Science from 1961-1970.
Son, Samuel Morgan Ross, taught Concrete Educational activity, and held several authoritative positions from 1956-1988.
Sister-in-Law Alice Nason Ross taught Physical Education for Women from 1921-1940. She was married to Cebe's older brother, Guy Ross ca. 1939.
Cebe's Football Legacy at WVWC
Cebe (Course of 1923) coached David Reemsnyder (Class of 1930)
David Reemsnyder (Class of 1930) Coached Hank Ellis (Grade of 1943)
Hank Ellis (Class of 1943) Coached Kent Carpenter (Form of 1963)
Kent Carpenter (Class of 1963) Coached Bill Struble (Course of 1977)
Nib Struble (Class of 1977) Coached Current Coach, Del Smith (Class of 2005)
Grab your seat at Cebe Ross Memorial Field on Sabbatum to cheer on the current Bobcats
Who, past the way, are being coached past Del Smith…who was coached by Bill Struble…………Here'due south To One-time Wesleyan!
*Annotation: Information technology turns out that Paul Toll, Double-decker for Hold University is too a WVWC Grad (1984) and was coached by Kent Carpenter. And Paul Cost was an assistant coach who coached Del Smith.
The game was tied at 31 until Agree kicked a field goal with 2 seconds to become. The spirit of Cebe Ross was in high evidence in the stadium that afternoon.
The Feb 24, 1926 outcome of the Pharos tells us that,
Since primeval times of civilisation people accept built walls around their cities and castles equally a means of protection. The gates of these walls required much time and coin because they were to be ornamental as well as useful. And then, as civilization avant-garde, there was no need for these walls and they gradually crumbled abroad, but the custom of using gates for ornamentation has been preserved to the present day. It is a rare thing to detect an institution that does not accept a gate somewhere on its grounds.
Of the hundreds of students that daily pass through these gates on Wesleyan'due south campus probably few e'er give a thought of them.
That was true then, and it is even more so today. In fact, the truthful stories behind these gates are becoming a scrap fuzzy and dim.
Take, for example the Harmer Gateway.
1908
For many years, each form would choose someone they admired and would accept the proper noun of that person. The Class of 1908 was known as The Harmer Class later Harvey Walker Harmer.
In appreciation of this accolade, and in honour of the class of 1908, he donated the funds for the Harmer Gateway.
The Honorable Harvey W. Harmer was a Trustee of the higher from 1906-1937, and a Trustee Emeritus from 1937-1961.
He was elected to the W Virginia Firm of Delegates in 1894 and to the W Virginia Senate in 1900. He served on the Lath of Regents of the Land Normal Schools and for the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind. He was the mayor of Clarksburg, West Virginia.
In George W. Atkinson'south 1919 piece of work,Demote and Bar of West Virginia,Harmer is described as "a safe and wise counselor, a conscientious adviser, and is deliberate in all of his acts; and ameliorate than all else he at all times seeks to be only and entirely fair with his fellow men."
1917 view of the Harmer Gateway
1926
On February 3, 1926, Harvey W. Harmer married the former Dean of Women – Florence Warden Stemple. Dean Stemple had been a member of the class of 1908! After receiving her degree from WVWC, she went on to get her masters degree from Columbia University before coming back to her alma mater as the Dean of Women from Feb 1924 through January of 1926.
She is quoted in the January 27, 1926 event of the Pharos as saying,
It is necessary for someone to build a foundation upon which some other adult female, who has had special grooming, tin can build upon.
She was known as i who gave independence and guidance to the young women at Wesleyan. This just six years after women were given the right to vote when the Nineteenth Ammendment was passed in 1920.
2016
In the summer of 2016, the area was renovated and rededicated as part of a collaborative sidewalk project betwixt the Metropolis of Buckhannon and West Virginia Wesleyan College.
Benches and plaques were included to honor President Pamela Balch, who was President of Wesleyan from 2006-2016 and Dr. Barry Pritts, who had been Vice President for Administration and Finance for a decade.
New Places, New Perspectives
A gateway leads us to a new identify.
You can go through it from more than one direction and with more than one perspective.
Since 2008, this is the mode y'all walk from campus to the Virginia Thomas Law Center for the Performing Arts. The next time y'all pass that way, give a idea of appreciation to Harvey Walker Harmer (and his wife).
Or, perhaps imagine in your listen's center the days when this was the front door of campus, and framed i of our oldest buildings.
Some words have very deep meanings, and we use them a lot.
We sometimes utilise them then much that nosotros don't cease to retrieve how powerful they really are. Lifechanging at times.
Already this week I am hearing i of these words multiple times a day, and in the side by side week or and so I expect to hear it spoken, shouted, and squealed. There volition be a convocation in which I predict that the word volition be used hundreds of times. Information technology will appear on signs, tweets, posts, syllabi, webpages, and will actually permeate the air. There will be hugs involved. That word is……..Welcome!
Proof
Why practice I think this will happen? Because it has happened hither for over a century — and at that place are witnesses.
2018 (Already)
Multiple teams and groups and bands and organizations have Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages. All of them are sending out messages of welcome to new folks and welcome back to returning members.
2017
Student Leaders in 2017
Here is a photograph from Orientation Weekend last year, for example. These students stood at the corner of College Avenue and Meade Street for hours waving to new students and their families as they came to campus. They answered questions and pointed the way. With huge smiles, they shouted, "Welcome to Wesleyan!"
2009
On Family Weekend of 2009, student Robbie Quarles manned the postal service for parent nametags. He welcomed them and helped with questions or the directions that they needed. (p.southward. he is now the Director of Multicultural Programs and Services and we call him Dr. Quarles as of this summer.) In 2015 he was welcomed back in his new role.
1980s
New faculty are too welcomed!
1950s
This has been going on for decades! Sometimes it is the faculty doing the welcoming. Other times, it is the students.
This handbook, given to the entering students in 1952-1953 includes a welcome alphabetic character from the Community Quango President which begins:
Greetings and welcome to West Virginia Wesleyan College!
Information technology goes on to say…..At Wesleyan you lot'll observe that everyone just about breaks his neck to brand yous feel y'all vest here. It won't take yous long to find that out. Don't ever be afraid to ask whatsoever of these worldly and wise-looking characters about anything you might desire to know. They'll ever be glad to find someone who tin answer your questions.
Who Is Welcomed?
- New Students
- Returning Students
- Prospective Students
- New Faculty
- New Staff
- Families of Students
- Teams
- Small Groups
- Whole Classes
- Alumni
- Artists and Musicians who come to perform
- Speakers who come to bring us words of wisdom
- Groups and Camps all summer long
- W Virginia United Methodist Annual Conference
Living Witnesses – Our Cute and Very Old Trees
Recently, I came across some information about something that I've never stopped to consider before: Witness Trees. For example, in that location are some copse that take been present at key moments during American History. See more than about these in an article from the Smithsonian.
The many old and beautiful trees on our campus have witnessed thousands of welcomes, welcomed thousands to campus, and watched many a welcome back reunion. They are our very own Witness Trees.
The Ring is Coming! This statement marks the outset of things. As a pocket-sized child, I can remember the excitement of standing on the street corner waiting for a parade and the electricity that ran through the oversupply equally we heard the drums in the altitude.
Information technology is August, and a new year is about to begin at West Virginia Wesleyan Higher. And, next Saturday The Ring is Coming! The 2018 WVWC Bobcat Ring volition be arriving to prepare their show (Music from the Incredibles). The drums will exist beating, the sounds of music volition fill up the air, the flags will wave.
Marching band at WVWC has had an interesting history. Although instrumental music groups the early years of the college were generally more in the form of an Orchestra, the 1915 itemize does begin to include ring too (although not necesarily in marching course.)
The 1912 band was organized by Flavius Fay Smith, from Fairmont, who graduated from WVWC in the class of 1916. Student organized. Student led. Student enthusiasm.
With the graduation of Fay Smith, the globe in turmoil throughout World State of war I , and the Peachy Depression, the ring had its ups and downs. The Orchestra kept going stiff, as information technology was part of the curriculum.
In the Oct three, 1934 issue of the Pharos, a letter to the editor indicates that in that location was still a desire and a need for a band.
The competent instructor mentioned in this article is really C. Lawrence Kingsbury, WVWC Class of 1935, who was an Instructor in the Music Department. (He later went on to go his Ed.D. in Music from the University of Indiana and to become the Chairman of the Music Department there, and also at Marshall Academy.) Again, students past and present provide corking leadership.
1940s
The 1940 Marching Band was led onto the field by Drum Major Ronald Sleeth, futurity president of the college, and Drum Majorette Gloria Harvey.
1950s
The 1955 Band had a great time and added to school spirit under the management of C. Buell Agey, according to the Murmurmontis.
1960
The 45 member band, under the management of Banana Professor Owen West presented four shows that year. Plain Professor W loved to blueprint and proper name shows.
- Half-time in Bluish
- Salute to the 49th and 50th States
- Around the World
- Music, Music, Music
They had a busy schedule and high hopes.
The Milburn Years 1970s through early 2000s
The 1966 arrival of David Milburn, known to his earlier students as Slide and later on students as Physician, coincided with the growing popularity of Jazz Music. This was axiomatic in the selections of music chosen for the marching band shows.
1968
- Goin' Out of My Caput
- Windy
- Upward, Up and Abroad
1969
- Joshua
- Swing Low
- When the Saints Go Marching In
1970
- Witchcraft
- America
In 1970, the Oct 6th issue of the Pharos tells us that the band is express due to uniforms. David Milburn says that the 60 member band could easily become a 100 member band if in that location were enough uniforms.
Even with the shortages of uniforms, the band grew and was very successful. In 1973, they were the Honor Band at the Mountain Country Woods Festival. Their sound was described every bit "Tremendous."
By 1975, the band was marching eighty people, dressed in a different blazon of uniform. This was followed past a band for the next few years who took the field sporting jeans and Polo Shirts.
The 1977 flavor featured songs that brought the crowds at football games to their feet:
- Old Days (by Chicago)
- Ease on Downwards the Road (from The Wiz)
- Beethoven's 5th "Rock Mode"
The band was honored that twelvemonth when President Ronald Sleeth (former Drum Major) came past and conducted the Wesleyan Fight Song in the Stands.
35 Year Marching Band Drought
Due to many factors, the band did non field a Marching Ring again for many years. It was not due to a lack of interest on the part of students. The music program in general was very good for you and robust, especially in the area of Jazz and Choral Music. The band continued to sit in the stands at football game games, although in fewer numbers.
And then came Logan Lindsey in 2014.
In 2014, the determination was made to revitalize the Marching Ring. They started small that year, with 25 students, but take shown steady growth, enthusiasm, talent, and downright passion. This twelvemonth they will field about 90. Yep, they are all the same in search of uniforms, but their sound is intense and electrifying. Their show is the music from the Incredibles. And I have NO doubt that the term will exist fitting.
Here is a video from their Facebook Page, showing them equally the honor band at the Fairmont Ring Spectacular last autumn. The crowd had just seen 18 excellent high school bands in fancy uniforms. They were tired, and probably all fix to head home. Probaby a 19th band was a bit of a stretch for their patience. But the WVWC Bobcat Marching Ring did not disappoint!
The WVWC Band had already had a busy day. They had played pregame concerts, domicile football game halftime, and pep music in the stands for a home game in Buckhannon. Then they headed to Fairmont, watched (and cheered for) all of those bands, and all the same managed to exist amazing.
The daughter sitting in front of me that evening said that she was because going to WVWC, just merely "if the band was any good." She watched and cheered and got very excited virtually this performance. Maybe she volition exist among those gathering for Ring Camp next Sabbatum. I hope and so!
I retrieve that Flavius Fay Smith who was from Fairmont, WV (and who organized the offset WVWC ring in 1912) was probably cheering somewhere in those stands at the Fairmont Band Spectacular too!
The Band Is Coming!
Update 2022-03-04
Logan Lindsey left in 2019 to pursue his dream of performance music. During his time at WVWC, the band was invigorated and grew. New uniforms were purchased!
David Blon was appointed the Director of Athletic Bands in June of 2020, and led the group through the very difficult period of the COVID-nineteen pandemic. Here is an article almost him from MyBuckhannon June 23, 2020. He was here until May 2021, when he left to bring together the ring and orchestra faculty at Purdue University.
In July 2021, Scott M. Miller arrived at WVWC to serve as the Director of Able-bodied Bands. Here is an commodity about him from wvnews.com.
The music goes on!
In 2014, the decision was fabricated to revitalize the Marching Band. They started small that twelvemonth, with 25 students, just have shown steady growth, enthusiasm, talent, and downright passion. This year they will field about 90. Yes, they are nevertheless in search of uniforms, but their audio is intense and electrifying. Their show is the music from the Incredibles. And I have NO doubtfulness that the term will be fitting.
Here is a video from their Facebook Page, showing them as the honor band at the Fairmont Band Spectacular last autumn. The crowd had just seen 18 excellent high school bands in fancy uniforms. They were tired, and probably all ready to head habitation. Probaby a 19th band was a bit of a stretch for their patience. But the WVWC Bobcat Marching Band did not disappoint!
The WVWC Band had already had a busy day. They had played pregame concerts, habitation football game game halftime, and pep music in the stands for a home game in Buckhannon. Then they headed to Fairmont, watched (and cheered for) all of those bands, and yet managed to exist amazing.
The girl sitting in forepart of me that evening said that she was because going to WVWC, but only "if the ring was any good." She watched and cheered and got very excited about this operation. Maybe she will be among those gathering for Ring Campsite next Saturday. I hope so!
I think that Flavius Fay Smith who was from Fairmont, WV (and who organized the starting time WVWC band in 1912) was probably cheering somewhere in those stands at the Fairmont Band Spectacular as well!
The Band Is Coming!
P.S.
The band will once again exist beating out the strains to "Here's to Old Wesleyan." If you are in the stands, why not sing (or at least clap) along!
Source: https://dreamersandgiants.com/2018/08/
Enregistrer un commentaire for "What Play Is at Wvwc Performing Arts Center May 2018"