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A Message from MSU Alumni Band President Jim Barry – February 2012
It’s great to be a Spartan Band Alum! The MSU Alumni Band’s Annual Spring Reunion held on Sunday May 1, 2011 and Annual Fall Reunion held on Saturday, September 10, 2011 were both terrific events to be involved with and participate in. Over 300 band alumni returned to campus for the two events. Graduates from [...]
MSU Alumni Touring Band Announces 2013 Concert Tour
The Alumni Touring Band and its conductor, Ken Bloomquist, is excited to announce Scotland as the location of its 2013 Concert Tour, followed by an optional extension through England and Wales. The nine-day concert tour of Scotland will visit Edinburgh (concert), Inverness (concert), the Highlands including Loch Ness and the Isle of Skye, Loch Lomond, [...]
SMB Alumnus Merritt Lutz Featured on “Spartan Sagas”
Merritt Lutz loves his work in the financial services industry, which allows him to invest in companies and help them become great. He also focuses on investing—in people—outside his successful career. Lutz, who earned a bachelor’s degree in advertising and a master’s in social science from Michigan State, came to MSU with scholarship support to [...]
Solid Brass – the Leonard Falcone Story
Blue Lake Press, a subsidiary of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, will publish the long-awaited biography of Leonard Falcone, whose journey to America from Italy through Ellis Island at age 16 led to one of the most unlikely and inspirational careers in the history of the American band movement. Recognized in his lifetime as the [...]
Rose Bowl DVD
A DVD has been produced of the four Rose Bowls which the Spartan Marching Band has participated in (1954, 1956, 1966, 1988). Enjoy original footage of not only the game performances, the trips and stops along the way, and much more. Even a little football is included! Also on the DVD is a tribute to [...]
MSU Alum Ed Deeb Awarded the Detroit Free Press Neal Shine Award
MSU alum Edward Deeb, president of Michigan Food and Beverage Association, and Michigan Business and Professional Association, which represents more than 20,000 members in Michigan who employ 160,000 persons, recently received the 2010 Neal Shine Shining Light Award for Exemplary Leadership from the Detroit Free Press and Metropolitan Affairs Coalition. Edward Deeb, class of 1960, [...]
