To all my fellow DePauw musicians and alumni,

 

My wife, Marilyn Mead Priser ’63, and I have had the marvelous experience for the past three years of returning to the campus and play with the Tiger Alumni Bands and Stumblebums. I was a member of the DePauw Marching Band (1962 Tarnished Spitvalve award recipient) and Concert Band during my undergraduate days of 1959-1963. When we accepted with some trepidation the invitation to play with the current student band members of the undergraduate Tiger Pep Band as well as fellow alumni, faculty, family, and community members, we did so in order to participate as active supporters of the University. We even traveled, at our own expense, with the Tiger Alumni Bands and Tiger Pep Band to Memphis in March, 2007, to support our men’s and women’s basketball teams in the SCAC tournament. We were very proud to have played for our alma mater as the women won both the SCAC tournament and DePauw’s first-ever national team championship. 

 

We are most grateful to Adam Hilkert ’08 and Ashley Myers '10, the current undergraduate Tiger Pep Band student directors, and Dr. Valarie Ziegler, their faculty adviser, for their encouragement to be active alumni participants.

 

Daniel Reck ’03 and David Ziemba '03, the TABS directors, have been extremely active in encouraging everyone who has ever been involved at DePauw musically or otherwise, to consider becoming an active participant with the Tiger Alumni Bands and Stumblebums. They are extremely dedicated to involving alumni throughout the DePauw “nation” to become active with our beloved university. Marilyn and I strongly encourage you to join in the fun and excitement of being an active alumnus in supporting DePauw University.  “Here’s to DePauw”.

 

Dennis A. Priser  ‘63
Trombonist, Tiger Alumni Bands and Stumblebums
1962 Tarnished Spitvalve Recipient, DePauw Marching Band