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Saint Stanislaus Band

  • 1857 - School's first piano is purchased
  • 1875 - Br. M. Germain begins serving as band director to a 16-member band; leads until 1888
  • 1888 - Professor Hemmersbach becomes the first lay teacher at SSC, leading 25 band members
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​Professor Hemmersbach in 1898 with the SSC Brass Band
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  • 1906 - Hemmersbach’s brother Carl takes over until 1917
  • 1917 - Carl’s brother Joseph took over until 1923
  • 1923 - Br. Oliver begins serving as band director
  • 1924 - Band played at a basketball game
  • 1930 - For two years, Prof. J. A. Smith leads the band
  • 1932 - Br. Romuald is asked by Br. Williams (then SSC President) to take over; he initially has trouble
                 recruiting members, but gradually has enough to begin playing at football games
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Brother Romuald pictured in 1937
  • 1935 - The band is led by Drum Major Van Platter; the band also gets sweaters for the first time
  • 1936 - The band wins first place at a contest in Jackson, plays at the Knights of Columbus Initiation in
                 Gulfport, and at the
    82nd Annual Commencement. Parents help raise money for new band uniforms. 
  • 1947 - Band plays through a storm in an attempt to calm down the students
  • 1950 - Band gets promoted from “CC” to "B" class due to how many students attend the school
  • 1951- The band travels to the All State Band contest and is required to play “First Swedish Rhapsody” by Erik
                Leidzen
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  • 1956 - The 1956 yearbook notes that since 1937, the band has ‘amassed a total of 16 plaques for first-place
                 ratings and hundreds of medals by individual members.'
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1958 SSC Band 
1960 SSC Band 
  • 1960  - Mr. PJ Paoli is named the new band director
  • 1966 - Under the direction of Mr. Clement Toca, the band travels to Oklahoma for a nation-wide contest
  • 1972 - The first OLA students join the band

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1982 SSC Marching Band
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1990 SSC Band plays in the Resource Center
  • 1993 - Parents form a band booster club
  • 2007 - The new Bro. Romuald, S.C. Instrumental and Voice Music Building (Band Hall) is dedicated
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