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The Ohio State University Marching Band (TBDBITL)

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Making musical memories

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At 100, loyal band alumnus Anthony Violi will add Script Ohio honors to his still-busy schedule.

As a lifelong musician and music educator, Anthony Violi ’42 knows the importance of practice.

And because this 100-year-old trumpet player’s next performance is such a big one, he’s been treating the white picket fence-lined backyard of his Steubenville, Ohio, home as a makeshift football field to make sure he’s crossing every t — all in preparation to dot a very special i.

While Violi became a centenarian May 4, he’ll join an even more exclusive club this fall when he dots the i in Script Ohio as part of the annual TBDBITL Alumni Reunion game. His feat will come at halftime of the Buckeyes’ Sept. 22 game against Tulane at Ohio Stadium.

“I’ve been practicing. I’m going to go out on the field and bow down to the visitors’ side, and then I’ll do an about face and bow down to the home side,” Violi says. “I’m practicing that turn and all of that to make sure it goes well.”

Violi played trumpet in the Ohio State Marching Band from 1937 to 1942 while pursuing his bachelor’s degree in music. He joined the band just one year after it performed Script Ohio for the first time, and he’s been a mainstay of TBDBITL reunion games since the first was held in 1966, marching for almost every one.

“He’s quite the celebrity now,” says Sara Lawhon ’95, who is in her 14th year as reunion chair for the TBDBITL Alumni Club. “When we march over to the stadium, people get out of line to see him. He has a queue of people who want to get their picture taken with him.”

Entire article: https://www.osu.edu/alumni/news/ohi...urce=twitter&utm_medium=link&utm_content=UMAR
 
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