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A Blast From the Past: Denise Dykes
Posted by Glynn Wilson in Blasts of the Past, Erwin Band Memories on September 19th, 2009
Denise Dykes was the head Erwinette in 1974. She always had an exotic sort of beauty…
Denise Sanders recently popped up at an impromptu reunion in Blount County, still looking good after all these years…
Erwin Band Memories: The ‘Dumb’ Drum Line
Posted by Glynn Wilson in Erwin Band Memories on February 12th, 2007
Some of the most fun memories I have of Erwin in the 1970s - and adolescence in general - was playing and marching in the drum line in the Erwin Eagle Marching Band.
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| The Erwin Eagle Marching Band, 1976 at Disney World |
The only other members of the drum line I recognized at the 2006 reunion were Byron Ackerman and Scotty Glover. I’m told Scotty also left the band at some point after a dispute with the band director, Ronald Widener.
A heck of a trumpet player but a heavy smoker, Widener hated drummers. He would stop the band right in the middle of practicing a song and scream at us and call us the “dumbest” beings on the planet.
But we ignored him for the most part and went on about having fun.
I was there at a separate drum line practice in August 1974 when Ricky Knowles and Mike Ponder and the rest of us wrote the famous FALSTAFF beer cheer and cadence. I understand that cheer lived on until the Moral Majority took over early in the 1980s.