co-wrote our alma mater. That year, the marching band performed the song publicly for the first time during a football game on Thanksgiving. In 1941, McMillen and Ogilvy published the music with ...

“And so it wasn’t actually the lyrics of the alma mater. Originally, I had written just a Midland Valley song to play on the scoreboard,” Mackie said. In 2023, Higgenbottom told Mackie he ...