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Robert L.'Bedie' Bidez was the first director of the
Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band The Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band is the official marching band of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Founded in 1908 by a group of 14 students, the Georgia Tech Band is one of the school's oldest student organizations. The ...
, which he founded in 1908 as a student at the
Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, GT, and simply Tech or the Institute) is a public university, public research university and Institute of technology (United States), institute of technology in Atlanta, ...
. He was succeeded in that role by Mike Greenblatt. Bidez was a
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graduate of 1912, vice president of the McGowan-Lyons Hardware and Supply Company in
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