At the 2018 Band Alumni Association meeting on Friday, September 14, 2018, you elected Amy Pettit to replace outgoing director, Jodi Alva. Here is a little more about Amy. As a director on the Board, she is your voice in helping to run our organization. You can get to know a little more about each (more…)
Debra E. “Deb” (Mortensen) Horn, age 58 of Sidney, Nebraska, entered into her Heavenly Home surrounded by her loving family Monday September 24, 2018. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M., Wednesday October 3rd in the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Sidney, Nebraska with Pastor Neil Carlson officiating. Burial will follow in the Greenwood (more…)
On Saturday, September 15, 2018, the UNL Band Alumni Association, Inc. awarded the Jack R. Snider Band Alumni Association Scholarship to Hanna Savidge and Elija Elmshaeuser. Elijah Elmshaeuser is a senior in Mechanical Engineering. He is the trumpet section leader, and is from Ogallala, Nebraska. Hanna Savidge is a senior in Elementary Education. She is (more…)
Thank you to Cornhusker Marching Band alumnus, Becca Wolf, for sharing her story with us and David Max for writing the article with help from the Wolf and Tollefsen familes. Please read the full story from Husker Max. “Everyone is familiar with the NU fight song “Hail Varsity” that is played by the Cornhusker Marching (more…)
Moore, Jeannie M. Dec 9, 1969 – May 23, 2018 Jeannie’s passion in life was her music. A piano player and trumpet player, Jeannie was a graduate of Omaha Westside High School where she played in the award winning Concert Jazz Band. She was a member of The University of Nebraska Cornhusker Marching Band and (more…)
