Tuesday, September 8, 1998
		Bell, Holbrook will address grads at fall Commencement Specialist in employment law joins legal staff Rallying Cry
		Former band director Roger Dancz dies Brought UGA’s band and jazz program to national prominence
		Larry B. Dendy Roger L. Dancz, who directed University of Georgia bands for 36 years and hosted a popular statewide radio program, died in Athens Sept. 1. Dancz, 68, died at St. Mary’s Hospital following a brief illness. No formal funeral service will be held, but a musical celebration of his life will be held later. Dancz became director of UGA’s Redcoat Band in 1955 and is credited with building the group into one of the nation’s top collegiate bands. He also started a jazz studies program at UGA, directed the university’s symphonic band and created a jazz festival and music festival that brought thousands of high school students to UGA. “By any standard, Roger Dancz was the foremost figure in the band movement in Georgia from 1955 to the present,” says Dwight Satterwhite, UGA’s current director of bands. “For the university’s band program, and for band programs throughout the state, this is a deep personal and professional loss.” The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Roger Dancz Scholarship Fund and sent to the University of Georgia Foundation.
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