Robert L. Bidez

Robert L.'Bedie' Bidez was the first director of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band, which he founded in 1908 as a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[1][2][3] He was succeeded in that role by Mike Greenblatt.

Bidez was a textile engineering graduate of 1912, vice president of the McGowan-Lyons Hardware and Supply Company in Mobile, Alabama.[3]

  1. ^ Johnson, Rusty (2000-02-25). "Campus music programs have storied history". The Technique. Retrieved 2007-03-17.
  2. ^ "Music Department History". Georgia Tech Bands. Retrieved 2007-10-12.
  3. ^ a b Brittain, Marion L. (1948). The Story of Georgia Tech. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. p. 257.