HISTORY
TremendousFunandtheDaySeumasSent
BackALoadofNewPolkemmetLPs
The 1950s,and Seumas MacNeill is teaching (l-r) Evan MacKay,Freena MacFadyen,
Lawrence MacIver,Margaret MacDonald,Scott Bennett and Hazel Currie
BYJEANNIECAMPBELL
I
N July 1959 the College band in opposite directions.All the other
visited Vienna to represent bands trailed into an awed silence as
Scotland in the 7thWorld Festival thesoundofthe‘GreenHillsofTyrol’
ofYouth and Students for Peace and thundered triumphantly through the
Friendship. The time was taken up procession.
with processions, concerts and When the first band was in
displays on various open-air existenceSeumashadinsistedthathis
platforms.A folk music competition pupilswerenotallowedtoplayinany
was held and the band gained second other band but the College one.
prize against such varied performers Anyone joining another band would
as a Korean choir, a Rumanian forfeit their College membership
orchestraandaMexicanjazzband,an immediately.Early in 1960 there was
excellent reason for another talk of starting a senior pipe band
celebration ceilidh in the dormitory withTommy Pearston as Pipe Major,
that night. In the closing procession but this came to nothing.The Junior
the superiority of the bagpipe was Band members had now grown older
demonstrated again.The parade went or had moved on and the drumming
the length of one street then turned instructor Bobby MacGregor had left
and came back the same way so parts and had not been replaced.
of the parade were passing,marching Early in 1984 there was again the
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