<p>Who died???</p>
<p>UMASS is playing UMICH in football today. The director of the UMASS marching band died (I think yesterday) of a heart attack in Ohio on the way to the Mich. game. Age 57, so young. Very sad.</p>
<p>the umass band director died on thursday i believe.
maybe it’s half raised because of that?</p>
<p>ya, all of us students got an email to give a moment of silence at the game</p>
<p>If you were a drum major in a high school band or a member of a college marching band, George Parks was your teacher. [Ohio.com</a> - University of Massachusetts band director dies after performance in Cuyahoga Falls](<a href=“http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/103145459.html]Ohio.com”>http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/103145459.html)</p>