Robert L. Bidez

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Robert L.'Bedie' Bidez was the first director of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band, which he founded in 1908 as a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. [1] [2] [3] He was succeeded in that role by Mike Greenblatt.

Bidez was a textile engineering graduate of 1912, vice president of the McGowan-Lyons Hardware and Supply Company in Mobile, Alabama. [3]

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Paul Rubens "Bedie" Bidez was an American football player and coach for Mike Donahue's Auburn Tigers of Auburn University and a director of its band from 1919 to 1951. Bidez was a member of the 1913 and 1914 teams. He weighed 175 pounds. One writer claims "Auburn had a lot of great football teams, but there may not have been one greater than the 1913-1914 team." Bidez was captain of the 1915 team. Under Bedez's watch, the band tripled in size and the university established a Department of Music.

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References

  1. Johnson, Rusty (2000-02-25). "Campus music programs have storied history". The Technique . Retrieved 2007-03-17.
  2. "Music Department History". Georgia Tech Bands. Retrieved 2007-10-12.
  3. 1 2 Brittain, Marion L. (1948). The Story of Georgia Tech. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. p. 257.