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All content by Photo taken from the 1919 yearbook, page 80, courtesy of UWL Murphy Library Special Collections.
La Crosse Normal President Fassett E. Cotton, seated in the center, organized and led the school band. With many men headed to war, there weren’t enough interested from the Normal School in 1918 to form a band, so Cotton recruited young men from Central High School and formed a group of about 40 musicians. Here they are posing for a practice session in the spring on the campus grounds in front of the unfinished physical education building, which was eventually named Wittich Hall. While construction started on the building in 1916, it was stopped during WWI and the building opened in 1920. The university closed in mid-October 1918 due to the Spanish flu epidemic.

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Laura Godden, Guest Contributor
April 8, 2020
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