Airband - Winterfest 1985

From the 1985 Crimson, with corrections to grammar, spelling, and style: "It was a night to remember as several air bands took the stage for what many called the most diverse air band show Ripon has seen in quite a while. Bands ranging from The Sex Pistols to a group singing songs from The Sound of Music played Friday of Winter Weekend before The Rocky Horror Picture Show was shown at midnight. Among those bands qualifying for the finals Saturday night were the Alpha Chi Omegas doing renditions of Do, Re, Me and So Long, Farwell from The Sound of Music and another group of students, including Dale and Ruth Schumacher, Geoffrey Seymour, and Calvin Simmons [Ed. note: This is the way the Theta Sigma Taus were described in The Crimson, but we all know how even-handed other students have been with regard to our House, this is simply more of the same...], mimed Let's Go Crazy from the movie Purple Rain as well as the movie's theme song as the band Prince and the Revolution. Dale Schumacher's appearance as Prince was fantastic. Not only was his likeness to Prince very good, but his actions on the stage were excellent. According to one band member they spent hours and hours practicing to get their motions in sync with each other. They went on to win the air band competition for Winter Weekend '85, as judged by members of the faculty."

Band members include, from left to right
Calvin Simmons (1988), Jim Bourn (1987), Dale Schumacher (1987), Geoff Seymour (1988), and Ruth Schumacher (1985),