Grossman will “dot the I” for OSU band

By Alberta Stojkovic

Kyle Grossman’s mom, Nancy, finds it hard to believe that Kyle will begin his fourth year as a mem­ber of The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity March­ing Band. She is delighted that he will have the honor of “dot­ting the I” at the OSU foot­ball game Sept. 15th.

OSU will play Cal­i­for­nia in Colum­bus Sat­ur­day and Kyle is very excited to have the honor of being the “I dot­ter”. It is the tra­di­tion for a senior sousa­phone player to dot the I in “Script Ohio” at each game dur­ing half time.

Nancy said the ”I dot­ter” gets to design their own shirt, and the logo on his shirt says “Kyle, Mr. Tum­nus, dots the I.” She said there is mean­ing behind the design of Kyle’s T Shirt, which he designed for the occasion.

Kyle says he got the nick­name as a fresh­man because of the short chin whiskers he had at band try-outs. “Mr. Tum­nus” was the name of the goat in the movie “Chron­i­cles of Nar­nia” who had a goatee.

“I’m very glad his nick­name is “Mr. Tum­nus”. Trust me,” Nancy said with a laugh. “Some of the band mem­bers have nick­names that don’t sound very nice.”

The Gross­mans encour­age peo­ple to go to the “skull ses­sion” before the foot­ball game at St. Johns Arena on the OSU cam­pus. The prac­tice ses­sion for the band takes place two hours before the game and it’s free. The band plays all the half time music they will per­form includ­ing “Script Ohio.” The “I dot­ter” gets to do his strut and dot the I there too. You can also visit with band mem­bers after the skull ses­sion out­side the arena.

For those who can’t get to the game or St. John Arena for the pre-game skull ses­sion, the game is sched­uled to be on ABC (HD) begin­ning at 11 a.m. on Sat. Sept. 15.

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