Holmes McNeelyPapers c.1948-67

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Holmes McNeelyPapers c.1948-67

Papers of HolmesMcNeely, director of the Rice [University] Owl Band 1951-67, with materialincluding brochures, news clippings, photographs, slides, CDs of Rice Owl Bandand Jefferson Davis High School Band concerts under McNeely’s direction, boundvolumes of band music, and Rice Owl Band uniforms.

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Rice Owl Band.

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Rice University.

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Rice University's Office or Research and Graduate Studies oversees research and graduate programs. From the guide to the Research and Graduate Studies office records UA 130., 1996-2001, (Rice University Archives, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University) William Marsh Rice University (commonly called Rice University and opened in 1912 as The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science and Art) is a private, comprehensive research uni...

McNeely, Holmes

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Marion Holmes McNeely (known as Holmes McNeely) was born December 4, 1907, in Milford, Texas, the only son among four children born to Marion McNeely and Mary Ella Suggs. He attended the public schools in Memphis, Texas, where his father was the local dentist. Family members attribute his musical talent to his mother’s family; it was his mother who gave him his first music lessons on the piano, and beginning in his early teens he played trumpet in the Memphis regimental band, partic...