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Together Again After 65 Years

Creed Ford Jr. '49 February 27, 2015 12:04 PM

At the Acadia Assisted Living Community in Dallas, new friends Tom Roxburgh and Creed Ford, Jr. are at the dinner table together in casual conversation.

Tom: “Where did you and your friend eat yesterday, Creed?”

Creed: “We just went across the street to Cindy’s, always good food.”

Tom: “I remember, before it was Cindy’s it was Phil’s Delicatessen.”

Creed: “Oh, I remember that also.”

Tom: “Do you remember when it was on Oaklawn?”

Creed: “Sure, but that’s been a long time ago; back in the late ‘50s and ’60. How long have you been in Dallas?”

Tom: “Ever since I graduated from Texas A&M.”

Creed, a proud former student of Texas A&M, is astonished to learn Tom is also an Aggie. He asks: “When did you graduate from A&M?”

Tom: “1949. When did you graduate?”

Creed is now even more astonished: “That’s when I graduated, too.”

Tom: “I didn't get around campus very much. I was in the Band.”

Creed, floored by now, asks: “No way, which Band?”

Tom: “The only Band. The big Band.”

Creed: “Which floor in the band hall did you live?”

Tom: “I don’t remember, you’re testing my memory. Seems like it was an upper floor.” 

At the time, there were three units within the Band: the Maroon, the White, and the Senior Band. The Senior Band was a small group of seniors who had finished their Bull Tech and received their military commissions. They were ineligible for cadet rank, but Colonel Adams, the Band Director, wanted them in the marching Band and made a deal with them to live on the 4th floor and keep out of the affairs of the Corps below.

Creed, a very active former student, owns an Aggieland yearbook from 1949. He finds it and, sure enough, there is the senior portrait of Tom Roxburgh, better known as “Roxy.”

Flipping through the pages of the Aggieland to the group pictures of the Corps units and the Bands, there is “Roxy” again, with the same small outfit, the Senior Band.

And in the Senior Band's group picture, there they are, two friends and band mates--Tom Roxburgh '49 and Creed Ford '49, standing side by side.

Well, wouldn’t you know?

Creed dashes down to Tom’s apartment and shows the revealing evidence to his "new" friend -- who is actually his old Classmate and Band buddy. Reunited after 65 years.



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