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CARRYING THE TUNE

How a father turned loss into a gift that keeps giving for the WVU Mountaineer Marching Band

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By West Virginia University
September 9th, 2025
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Footnotes Story by Katie Short. Photos by Hunter Given, Brian Persinger, David Ryan, Jennifer Shephard and Matt Sunday.

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