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| Dr. and Mrs. William P. Foster in their Tallahassee home in 1974. |
Two former students of the late
William P. Foster, who
directed the Marching 100 from 1946 to 1998, will be on campus next week to
interview for the job their teacher once held. The two men are
Sylvester Young
and
Don P. Roberts.
Sylvester Young earned
his bachelor’s degree in music education from FAMU. After leaving FAMU, he completed
a master’s degree in music from Bowling Green State University and a Ph.D. in music
education from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
Young directed Ohio University’s Marching 110 from 1990 to
1996.
Don Roberts will interview on earned his bachelor’s degree in music education
from FAMU and a master’s degree in music education from Jacksonville State
University.
Roberts is currently the instrumental music coordinator for
the Dekalb County School System. In that position, he supervises the music
programs that serve the more than 15,000 students who play in the county’s K-12
bands and orchestras. He is also the creator and director of “Drumline Live” a
traveling concert series that he developed after serving as a consultant for
the Twentieth Century Fox movie Drumline (2002).
