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| type = Arts
| selective = No
| membership = Around 200| meeting-time = Mondays 7-8, Fridays 4-51x weekly during fall semester; 2x on game weeks| meeting-place = [[Chapin Shapiro Hall]]
| office = The Band Closet
| contact-name = Jessica Luning
| wso-listserver = moocow
| website = http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/moocow/
| established = the dawn of time(er, post WWII by Prof. Irwin Shainman)
}}
The Williams College Moocho Macho Moocow Military Marching Band is ideally composed of roughly 25-30 musicians who meet semi-weekly each fall in preparation for weekly home and/or away [[football]] games. These musicians have varying musical abilities and experiences allowing fledgling musicians the opportunity to play alongside and learn from those with more experience, which bridges the gap between the novice and other Williams [[music]] organizations. Although marching bands at other schools are limited to wind instrumentalists, the Williams Band honors equal opportunity and welcomes all instruments, such as violin and string bass, and even features vocalists in the plastic section, kazoos. Each week, under the direction of two caped student leaders, the Williams Band parades down [[Spring Street]] carrying with them the Williams Competitive Spirit to all home football games, opens the game with the Star Spangled Banner, performs an original [[halftime show]] and intersperses witty cheers along with rousing melodies throughout the game. Overall, the Williams Band prides itself in enthusiasm and musicianship while '''HAVING FUN!'''
Contact Jessica Luning (jl9) or Austin Paul (ajp1) for more info or to join. Also, check out the band's [http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/moocow/ website].
===[[Mr. C]] arrives===
Many years later, Emilus and Magilus wandered off to the west, where they settled, and founded a small clan. They left the Band under the capable leadership of the legendary Mr. C. "Tough as an armadillo," Mr. C proved to be an outstanding Band Director, with a mind honed by many years of paddleball and [[golf]]. The other bands in the NESCAC shriveled and disappeared, having been repeatedly humiliated by Williams. Under student leader Moody, the [[Wesleyan]] Band put up a tremendous resistance; it fell after Moody graduated. Williams Band gained a hegemony over the conference, and has won the New England Division III Marching Band Championship for thirty-six consecutive years.
===The last Moocow?===
An unfortunate series of events befell the Band starting in the Fall of 2017. Several members quit. The senior leader left the College. Recruitment was poor. The Band was only able to operate because Chris "Two-Quatah" Caproni (Mr. C) was able to levy high-schoolers from Drury to fill the Band's ranks.
Then, in the fall of 2018, Mr. C did not return. To replace him, Ashley Paradis was selected. But by that point, the Band had only three student members. Then two. Then one.
The alums returned for Homecoming, as they always do. A sextet performed (which included the legendary Denny Blagden '62) which was met with cheers. The Band hasn't performed since. Professor Ed Gollin, Chair of the Music Department, is poised to restart the Marching Band. But until then, I am the last Moocow. - [[Jra5]]
