Archives: Inductees

Richard Dennis Mayo was Director of Bands at Florida State University from 1971-1976. He graduated from Miami Jackson High School in Miami, Florida, where he played oboe and piano. In 1953, upon the a...

Bentley Shellahamer was born in Baltimore, Maryland, where he began music studies in the fourth grade. In 1958, his family moved to Miami, where he attended North Miami High School. Following his 1962...

Charlotte Cooper had a vision of fielding a marching band at the Florida State College for Women, and she was determined to make the improbable dream come true. In 1939, Charlotte and her friends, Jea...

A native of Madill, OK, Michael Pate enrolled at FSU in 1964. He spent two and a half years in the School of Music before transferring to the College of Business. He graduated in 1968 with a...

Curtis Falany, a Florida native, joined the Marching Chiefs in 1964, after visiting FSU with his high school band director, Jack Crew. He “fell in love with the Marching Chiefs, the campus, and ...

Chris Haughee was a four year member of the Marching Chiefs (1968-72). He was a member of Kappa Kappa Psi and served as an officer for a year and a half. Upon graduation in 1973, Chris attended L...

James Croft received the BME degree from Cornell College, an MA from Northern Iowa University, and his doctorate from the University of Oklahoma. He taught for twenty-one years in the public schools i...

Al Sergel served twenty-four years as the Director of Bands at Northwest Missouri State University and retired from thirty seven years of full-time teaching in 2004. During his tenure at Northwest he ...

Dr. Bill “Hink” Hinkle earned three music degrees from FSU – a BME in 1970, an MME in 1971, and the Ph.D. in 1976. In 1971 and 1972, he served as the Assistant to the Director of Ban...