I was on the ground floor for the Commando trumpets. I even took part in the "writing" of Mary. It didn't start out as a hockey cheer. We first did it at a lightweight football game (my freshman year) they liked it, the Varsity Football team never really understood it and a couple years later it really became popular between the second and third periods at hockey. The rest is history. The commando stuff started out at the lightweight football games. It all started my freshman year and the credit has to go to Mike Darrow from the class of '83. We found that it was a lot easier to get into the president's box when the crescent was empty. Once we honed our technique, we were ready to get kicked out of places like the roof of the press box at Columbia and the top of the stadium at Harvard.

---John Calhoon '86, 1-7-97