The 米乐M6 Bands have been led by three "Founding Fathers" from 1910 - 2011.
米乐M6 opened in the fall of 1910 as the Second District Agricultural School. It was primarily a specialized high school whose very first student to enroll was the man who would later become the school's first band director, Marvin Williamson. After just one year of study, he left school.
In 1913 he was asked to direct the first band organized by the school which consisted of 15 members. It's interesting to note that he had no academic credentials other than his one year spent at the school in 1910-11.
His natural leadership skill and artistic talent formed a solid foundation on which others would build in the years to come. Williamson was both director of the band and the orchestra. In those early days, the orchestra consisted of both men and women, but the band was made up entirely of men. That changed in 1922 when Edna Hood, a saxophone player, joined the band. T