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It's never pleasant to be the bearer of bad news, but two losses are hurting the Pride of Oklahoma extended family this week.
First, as noted today by the Norman Transcript:
Bernice Thrailkill, 93, of Washington, Ill., died Feb. 25 at Washington Christian Village. Born in Cooper Station, Ill., to Edward and Mae Small Marshall Oct. 8, 1914. She married Paul Thrailkill Oct. 30, 1934 in Washington, he preceded hear in death along with her daugther, Karen McCarty, brothers, Maurice, Orville and Paul Eugene Marshall and sister, Irma Mae Gordon.
[…] Bernice is survived by her son, Gene (Karen) Thrailkill of Norman…
Coach and Karen had returned to Illinois a few times this year as his mom's health began to deteriorate. Since this same site also hosts his Web site, and since the server was down much of Thursday and Friday due to hardware upgrades, he called and let me know they had to go back in a hurry because he had E-mail to send about it, so Gene and Karen were in Illinois at the time.
Those of you who were in The Pride during Coach's final season in 2000 may have met his mother, as she attended the final game. The family's wishes for memorials are in the obituary notice in the Transcript. If you'd like to send Coach a note but don't have his E-mail address, I've enabled the form on his site that lets you send mail to him, so just click here to send him a note. I'm sure that Coach, Karen, and the entire Thrailkill family appreciate our thoughts and prayers at this time.
Second, I am sad to report to you that this past Monday night's concert was postponed because one of the performers died. Mady Byrne, one of the musicians in the Symphony Band and also a mellphone player in the 2007 Pride of Oklahoma, was a 19-year-old music education major from Burtonsville, MD and a Dean's list student. She died Monday morning from liver failure due to a sustained but accidental Tylenol overdose. Mady's death has affected many of the members of the OU marching and concert ensembles, and Brian Britt has met with her family to express everyone's condolences and support.
As noted last week, the Wind Symphony performs at CBDNA in Kansas City on Thursday night, and that conference obviously could not be postponed or rescheduled. A local memorial service for Mady is scheduled for 10:00 AM Saturday morning at Havenbrook Funeral Home in Norman. The Norman Transcript published a death notice for Madalyn Ruth Byrne on Monday.
Madalyn's parents have chosen to speak out about the circumstances of her death, starting with this article in The Oklahoman. They spoke to the media Thursday night in Oklahoma City, and you can read about that in the Norman Transcript, and in coverage from Oklahoma City TV stations KSBI (52) and KOCO (5). about the cause of her death and the attention they hope others pay to the risks of taking too much acetaminophen or any over-the-counter drugs.
I have no information at this time on any official OUBAA involvement or memorial for either of these losses, but thought I should share the information with you.
Posted by Webmaster on 2/27/08; 2:20:16 AM
from the Membership dept.
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You may have noticed advertisements on the home page and discussion pages. While there aren't many expenses involved in running this site, there are some bandwidth and domain expenses, so we decided to try a few industry-standard ad blocks and see what happens.
It's an experiment, but if everything goes really well, this could literally provide tens of dollars per year to offset expenses.
If you're not seeing any ads, don't worry—we've configured them so that they only show up on pages if you are not logged into the site.
You are not logged in right now, so you'll need either to log in, or join the site by registering (it's free) if you don't want to see the ads.
Oh, and for now, there are no ads in the RSS feeds, since no one has to login to read them and they take a lot less bandwidth. Let us know if you have questions.
Posted by Webmaster on 9/11/07; 12:52:49 AM
from the Membership dept.
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OU Alumni Band
Friday Night Schedule:
6:30 pm: Meet at Catlett for early registration and to check out borrowed instruments and music.
7:00 pm: Down Beat for Rehearsal
8:30 pm: Rehearsal ends/Reception for ALL Alumni Band members hosted by TBS & KKY
After rehearsal please help clear Catlett of all Alumni Band needs and items. We will need to load large instruments, boxes of music, flags, etc on to our Equipment Truck to have it ready for use on Saturday at the Stadium.
Saturday Schedule:
11:15 am: Meet on practice field south of the stadium for Rehearsal with the Pride and Pre-game
1:15 pm: Registration for those who didn't attend Friday's Rehearsal (Beaird Lounge - North East corner of 2nd Floor in Student Union) Refreshments served
1:45 pm: Business Meeting (Beaird Lounge)
3:00 pm: Parade Starts for those wanting to watch
3:30 pm (ish): Lunch served on the South Oval for those who purchased lunch tickets
5:15 pm: Meet in North End Zone for Pre-game (be sure to give yourself enough time to get through security!)
6:01 pm: Buffalo Roast Begins!!
Posted by Rita Heath on 10/19/06; 2:27:27 AM
from the Homecoming 2006, Membership, Pride of Oklahoma dept.
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Oh boy, this was harder to judge than we'd expected! If you didn't read all the great stories about Pride experiences, click here and read them now - you missed out!
I loved the stories about the Halloween shows and the one about trying to use string as yardlines for practice (ouch!), but the contest description clearly said that we were looking for (emphasis added):
…the best stories about their first OU game as members of the Pride of Oklahoma.
As much fun as those stories were, they weren't "first game" stories and we had to pass them by - but you have our thanks for sharing them!
And the winner - OK, I can't decide, winners - are:
John Hudson for "I'm glad Coach didn't see me pick up my slide that I dropped" (and by the way, John, Coach wants to see you in his office next week about that&hellip)
Jay 'Jamie' Jones for "I told Coach I picked up my mouthpiece and he said 'Next time, just leave it'"
Terri for "He's not supposed to do that with the pylon, is he?" (No. No, he's not.)
Congratulations to all three, and thanks to everyone who entered. This was so much fun that we're going to do it again shortly, but this time for current Pride "Rah-Rah" CDs, so watch the site for the next contest announcement!
Posted by Webmaster on 9/4/06; 1:20:29 PM
from the Membership, Merchandise, Pride History dept.
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Keep up-to-date with OUBAA events in iCal, Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, or even Windows Vista Calendar (if you're living in The Future). Read the story for more details, or just click on this link to subscribe if you already use shared calendars or are running Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
Posted by Webmaster on 8/25/06; 1:10:36 PM
from the Gameday, Membership dept.
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Greetings Alumni and Friends,
In a few weeks The Pride will be running out of the tunnels to start the 2006 Football Season. How fortunate we are to have been able to participate in such an awesome program. It is our duty to help Continue the Tradition. We can do this in several ways. Our OUBAA dues help support the activities that we provide for The Pride. Last year we provided the disc jockey for the swimming party, hosted the pizza dinner after the first full rehearsal of the new block, and supplied goodie bags for the bus trips to Texas and the Holiday Bowl. We plan on continuing these activities and increasing our involvement with The Pride. The pizza dinner this year will be Sunday, August 20th in the Orchestra room at Catlett. We would enjoy having any of you that would like to come and hand out pizza and drinks and talk about the good ole days to the new block after their marching rehearsal before the first day of class. They really do enjoy hearing any stories of prior bowl trips, Texas trips, and how hot our WOOL uniforms were as we were lying on the 120 degree artificial turf.
In the past, The Pride has been using money from their budget to help cover the homecoming tickets for the Alumni Band. Our organization is about supporting The Pride, not them supporting us. Homecoming game tickets are $67 each. This year the Homecoming registration fee is $25.00 plus another $40 for each member that wishes to sit in the Alumni Band section. Guest tickets will cost the full $67.00 as usual. Hopefully, this will allow The Pride to use their money to provide extra frills for the students. We have reserved 200 tickets for this season's Homecoming game, which is October 21 versus the Colorado Buffaloes. Please respond with your registration early.
At our last business meeting, one of the discussion items was how a member could become a lifetime member of our organization. This was sent back to the advisory board to generate ideas. After researching how other organizations attained the status of lifetime member, the advisory board came up with two ways. One is a donation of $600 to one of the Band Alumni scholarship accounts. This would be the equivalent to paying the annual $15 dues for 40 years. The other is to reserve the right to the advisory board to grant lifetime membership based on outstanding service to the organization and The Pride.
Hosting a golf tournament as a fundraiser for The Pride was another point of discussion. We are working on setting a date for spring 2007, either late April or early May. We would like to have volunteers to chair the following positions: Hole Sponsorships, Prize Committee, and Food Committee. Mr. Brian Britt has volunteered to be the Tournament Chairman. If you are interested in any of these, please contact me via email at oubapres@cox.net. If you play golf, please plan to participate and bring your own foursome. We will have more information at this year's business meeting, at Homecoming on October 21.
As I was traveling to a conference with a colleague, whose brother was a starting football player last season and whose husband is RufNek alum, we started talking about OU football, The Pride and Homecoming. She went on and on how Homecoming was her favorite game and how she loved the Alumni Band and how they exemplify Sooner Spirit. Then, I told her I was a member and she continued for at least 30 more minutes on how much fun it must be to have played in The Pride and still get to march at Homecoming with the Alumni Band. She could only imagine it, but you can relive it! I invite you to come to Homecoming, October 21 and "March down the field with our heads held high" and join in all of the fun and give our fans what they have been waiting for all year.
Boomer Sooner!
Gail Warmath-Richardson
OUBAA President
Flute 81-84
Posted by Gail Warmath-Richardson on 8/15/06; 12:27:30 AM
from the Homecoming 2006, Membership dept.
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It's too quiet around here! Football season starts in five weeks, and the 2006 Pride of Oklahoma arrives in less than three weeks (see previous item). It's time to get revved up, so wake up and hear the Boomers.
You can literally wake up and hear Boomer Sooner with your very own copy of the 2005 Pride of Oklahoma CD. This 17-track piece of plastic, recorded in both stereo and hi-fi (oooooh!), contains all nine of Dr. Roland Barrett's arrangements from the 2005 season:
- The Movie Show
- James Bond Medley
- The Incredibles
- I Need A Hero
- The Latin Music Show
- El Toro Caliente
- Tico Tico
- A Night In Tunisia
- The Rock Show
- Hush
- Smoke on the Water
- Respect
Plus eight full tracks of newly recorded rah-rahs and spirit songs!
- Fanfare and Oklahoma
- Fight for OKU
- Boomer Sooner
- Oklahoma Blues
- OU Chant (both instrumental and a capella
- 9 and Swing drum cadence
- Stoops Stomp drum cadence
We're giving away a few of these to the people who post the best stories about their first OU game as members of the Pride of Oklahoma. What was your story? Was it 1985, when the first performance was at Texas? Did something happen to you that seemed like disaster at the time but is funnier how, like uniform failure or losing your mouthpiece on the field? Was it boiling hot, or raining, or so windy your plumes wouldn't stay on?
Whatever it is, post it here in reply to this message. Read How to post comments if you've never done it before, but it's easy and free. We'll choose the winners and contact them via E-mail to mail them their CDs. We could judge at any time, so share your stories today!
Posted by Webmaster on 7/29/06; 9:47:41 AM
from the Membership, Merchandise dept.
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Contributions made to our scholarship funds with the OU Foundation are tax deductible. Please note preferred scholarship account number on your check.
General Fund-30005
Lloyd Curtis-40282
Oscar Lehrer-40283
William Wehrend-40284
Leonard Haug-40285
Gene Braught-40286
Eugene Springer-40596
Myra Jo Moon--40955
Gene Thrailkill-41135
University of Oklahoma Foundation, Inc.
100 Timberdell Road
Norman, OK 73019-0685
405-321-1174
405-325-6478
Fax 405-321-1180
Posted by Rita Heath on 1/28/06; 10:00:20 PM
from the Membership dept.
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Born January 22, 2006, to proud parents Brian Britt and Alicia Britt!
Avery arrived a little bit early and, at a petite 4 pounds, 2 ounces, is in the ICU for special care, but we're assured that both mother and daughter are doing fine. We'll add more information here as we get it.
Use this message as a guestbook - post a comment to pass your messages along to the Britts and we'll make sure they get them. Congratulations to the newly-extended family of the director of the Pride of Oklahoma! (Isn't it exciting?)
Posted by Webmaster on 1/23/06; 3:56:24 PM
from the Membership dept.
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I'd love to hear from the Sooner Showmen about their appearance at the basketball games last month.
Would any of you care to give us a play by play and your reflections??
I heard you on TV - sounded great!
Rita
Posted by Rita Heath on 1/9/06; 9:49:02 AM
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...is Robyn Hilger!
Hilger teaches 6th through 8th graders and Belle Isle Enterprise Middle School. She was named teacher of the year Tuesday by state Superintendent Sandy Garrett during a ceremony at the Oklahoma State Fair. Hilger will represent Oklahoma in the National Teacher of the Year competition. As Oklahoma Teacher of the Year she receives numerous prizes and awards, including cash prices, gasoline and use of a car for a year.
Although Robyn is an OCU alumna, her husband is David Hilger - director of bands at Purcell High School, and an OU Band alumnus! (In fact, he used to be the Webmaster for The Pride!) Congratulations!
Posted by Webmaster on 9/20/05; 7:28:15 PM
from the Membership dept.
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The Spring 2005 edition of our newsletter is being mailed this week. Please e-mail secretary@oubandalumni.org if you don't receive yours soon. In the e-mail, confirm your mailing address.
I'll be getting the newsletter visible here on the website this week, also.
Thanks!
Rita
Posted by Rita Heath on 4/23/05; 2:12:54 PM
from the Membership dept.
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Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi Fundraiser
Attention Pride Alumni:
If you live in the Norman or Oklahoma City Area, please come out to Marie Callender's on March 8th to help support Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi. This April we are hosting our District Convention and chapters from all across the area will be on campus for two days to visit Catlett, the newly renovated Holmberg Hall and the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History. Please help us make this the best district convention OU has hosted in many years.
If you would like to support Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi, please download and print this flyer and bring it to Marie Callendar's in Norman and present it to your server. You need Adobe Acrobat to open the attachment. All proceeds will help us with convention costs.
In case someone else wants to just make a contribution instead of only 10% of the check going to the kids - and they, too, want to save a few calories:
Cindy said the check can be made to Tau Beta Sigma. Mail it to:
Tau Beta Sigma, OU Bands
Catlett Music Center 500 West Boyd
Norman, OK 73019
Thank you for your support,
Boomer Sooner,
Lindsey McClure,
Tau Beta Sigma Treasurer 2004-2005
and
Matt Bavona
Kappa Kappa Psi Treasurer 2004-2005
Posted by Rita Heath on 3/5/05; 1:58:00 AM
from the Membership dept.
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If you follow our RSS feed, or look at the discussion group in chronological view, you've probably noticed that we've been hit lately by a bunch of comment spam. Automated programs sign up as members to the site and post messages full of ads on older posts, hoping that search engines will find them and increase their page rank. (The more pages link to a site, the more important the search engines think that site is.)
We don't yet have a great solution for this, but in an attempt to slow it down for now, we've done a couple of things. First, we've turned on a new attribute in all links on comments and discussion group messages so the search engines will ignore them.
They may still continue to do it, though, so for the moment, we've turned off membership. That means if you haven't already registered on the site, then for now, you can't - you need to contact me or Rita in E-mail and ask us to add you, and we'll be happy to do that. This will stop the bots from joining as new members so they can post their ads. Hopefully, after a few weeks, they'll give up and we'll turn it back on - or have a better solution.
Sorry for any inconvenience, but we don't want ads for little blue pills or online gambling tournaments stealing our site's reputation!
Update: We think we have it licked for the moment, but it required turning off the pop-up comments window. The discussion group is still there, as are all the comments, but they won't appear in a pop-up window for now. If you have any problems, let us know.
Posted by Webmaster on 1/24/05; 10:56:29 PM
from the Membership dept.
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Began in 1954.
We became part of the OU Alumni Association in 2004.
2005-2006 Officers:
Mailing address:
OU Band Alumni Association
P.O. Box 297
Norman, OK 73070-0297
E-mail our secretary, Rita, anytime at secretary@oubandalumni.org.
Posted by Rita Heath on 11/17/04; 9:29:15 AM
from the Membership dept.
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The Candy Basket in Norman, OK, owned by Maurice and Gyan Galoob, still has a few (about 20) of the OU music boxes. They sell for $50.00 and the offer still stands that $10 for every box sold goes to the scholarship fund of your choice.
You can see a picture of one by clicking OU Music Boxes above.
E-mail The Candy Basket at thecandybasket@sbcglobal.net if you're interested.
Posted by Rita Heath on 10/25/04; 11:29:42 PM
from the Membership dept.
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- Pride Pillow
- Pride Centennial History Book
- Centennial Celebration DVD/VHS
- Rah-Rah CD
- OU Marching Band Music Boxes
I'm on vacation from my 'real job' so my goal is to have information for all these items posted here to answer all your questions.
E-mail me anytime with any questions you may have.
Thanks.
BOOMER SOONER!
Rita - secretary@oubandalumni.org
Posted by Webmaster on 10/14/04; 11:26:08 AM
from the Membership dept.
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I know, I was shocked too. Read all about Gene and Karen's tour through the Northwest this summer, how things are going with friends and family, and [brace yourself] see a picture of him with a beard!
Posted by Webmaster on 9/10/04; 12:03:24 AM
from the Membership dept.
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We sent an e-mail to our membership late August 25th.
Did you receive it? If not, please e-mail me at secretary@oubandalumni.org ASAP.
Thanks, Rita
OU Band Alumni Secretary
Posted by Rita Heath on 8/26/04; 7:42:44 AM
from the Membership dept.
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We only get one centennial!
Our Celebration will begin Friday night, October 22nd.
Homecoming 2004, celebrating the Pride of Oklahoma Centennial, comes on October 23, 2004, as the Sooners take on the Kansas Jayhawks. This will be the biggest OU Band Alumni homecoming ever, so mark your calendars now.
The first OU marching band took the field in 1904, and 2004 is a year of celebration for the Pride and all alumni! Watch this page for more details as they become available, but trust us, you'll want to be there.
NOTE: On the Homecoming Registration form (have you gotten yours yet?) - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE write what instrument you will be playing. AND Also let us know if you will need to borrow one (only large brass and percussion please).
FYI: When you receive your homecoming newsletter, you'll see the sizes for the shirts as S, M, L, XL, and 2XL. The actual sizes are as follows:
S 36-38, M 38-40, L 40-42, XL 42-44, 2X 44-46.
E-mail our secretary at secretary@oubandalumni.org anytime. Especially to make sure you're on the e-mail and snail mail lists.
Thanks!!!!!
Posted by Rita Heath on 5/17/04; 6:54:14 PM
from the Membership dept.
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You may have noticed a few changes to the site tonight. Instead of a monolithic site, we've changed to a more weblog-like format that allows for individual news items. The first few items are just what used to be on the home page. (You can still read the old home page if you want, but it won't get updated anymore.) If you just read the home page, you won't notice much difference, except that items are more easily separated. If you're a Web pro, though, you can now get this site in RSS format by clicking this icon  ...in the navigation links on the left. That means you can read anything posted in your favorite RSS news reader, such as NewsGator for Outlook on Windows, or NetNewsWire for Mac OS X. Any new items will then show up automatically in your news reader - a very cool technology, IMHO. If you have any questions, let me know, or post comments here. We have a discussion board awaiting your wisdom.
Posted by Webmaster on 5/16/04; 1:38:47 AM
from the Membership dept.
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The following people were elected to OU Band Alumni Association offices at Homecoming 2003, and serve until the next vote at Homecoming 2004:
- Terri Cooter, President
- Gail Richardson, Vice President
- Cindy Creger, Treasurer
- Rita Heath, Secretary
- Karen Wagner, Historian
Posted by Rita Heath on 5/16/04; 1:07:12 AM
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