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The Ohio State Drum Majors (Modern Era)
The first modern-era drum major was Edwin "Tubby" Essington, but a drum major has been part of The Ohio State University Marching Band since the beginning, in 1878. Script Ohio has chronicled the biographies and history of the modern-era drum majors since 1920.
- Edwin 'Tubby' Essington (1920-22)
- Augustus Hall (1923-25)
- Robert Hines (1926-27)
- William Knepper (1928-30)
- Wilbert Pettegrew (1931)
- James McCreary (1932-33)
- William Casey (1934-35)
- Wesley Leas (1936-37)
- Myron McKelvey (1938)
- Dick Jones (1939-40)
- Edward Maundrell (1941)
- Gerald Johnston (1942)
- Robert Gulcher (1943)
- Cyril Costoff (1944)
- Joseph Myers (1945)
- Beverly Moseley (1946)
- Devon Kesling (1947-48)
- Johnny Criss (1949)
- Dale York (1950)
- Jim Spencer (1951)
- Jim Bodman (1952-53)
- George Souder (1954-55)
- Richard Marsh (1956)
- Larry Cory (1957-58)
- Lenny Hart (1959-60)
- Terry Burton (1961)
- Ben Kline (1962)
- Bob "Link" Harper (1963-64)
- Mitch Breece (1965-66)
- Kirby Wyatt (1967)
- Jack Swinehart (1968)
- Wayne Long (1969-70)
- Paul Zubrod (1971)
- Barry Kopetz (1972-73)
- Richard Gammage (1974-75)
- Doug Secrist (1976)
- Dwight Hudson (1977-79)
- Oliver McGee (1980)
- Shelley Graf (1981)
- Bruce Hart (1982-83)
- Andy Marks (1984)
- Greg Eyer (1985-86)
- Rich Parks (1987-88)
- Dale Wagner (1989-90)
- Lee Sartore (1991)
- Brian Berendts (1992-93)
- Karl Neudorfer (1994-95)
- Cory Thompson (1996-97)
- Scott Sommer (1998)
- Matt Bally (1999-2000)
- Adam Prescott (2001-02)
- Kathryn Mitchell (2003)
- Eric Sommer (2004)
- Alex Neffenger (2005)
- Stewart Kitchen (2006-07)
- Josh Halter (2008-09)
- Jason Stuckert (2010-11)
- Kyle West (2012-13)
- David Pettit (2014)
- Nathan MacMaster (2015)
- John LaVange (2016-17)
- Konner Barr (2018-19)
- Brayden Deemer (2020)
- Austin Bowman (2021-22)
Biography source: Script Ohio
Historians: Beverly Moseley (1920-1988 drum majors) and Kathryn Mitchell (1989-present drum majors)
Pre-Modern Era Ohio State Drum Majors
- Sgt. Joesph N. Bradsford (1878)
- George Makepeace (1879-80)
- Edward Orton, Jr. & S.J. Wilson (1881)
- Edward E. Sparks (1882)
- Unknown (1883-85)
- Jewett D. Norris (1886-87)
- Cpl. C.P. Wilcox, Calvin Powers & JJ Mullay (1888)
- 1st Sgt. Walter Palmer (1889)
- Sgt George D. Pearce (1890)
- 1st Sgt. Thomas French & Sgt G.D. Pearce (1891)
- Unknown (1892)
- 2nd Lt. C.L. Mcllvaine (1893)
- 2nd Lt. Charles McGuire (1894)
- 1st Sgt. J.J. Hoglen (1895)
- 1st Sgt. Roy Hopkins (1896)
- 1st Sgt. K.B. Seeds (1897)
- 1st Sgt. Chester Foster (1898)
- 1st Sgt. Ernest Lied (1899-1900)
- Herman G. Weinland (1901)
- 1st Sgt. G.A. Hipp (1902)
- 2nd Lt. Claude C. Rose (1903-04)
- Sgt. Elmer Sproat (1905-07)
- 1st Lt. Fred Ortman (1908)
- Unknown (1909)
- Robert Bruce Marshall (1910)
- Francis E. Marshall (1911)
- L. Walter Avery (1912)
- Unknown (1913)
- William Elmer Curran (1914)
- H.A. Robinson (1915)
- R.H. Barnes (1916)
- W.A. Ricketts (1917)
- Unknown (1918-19)
