A 1989 graduate of PHS, he marched as a sousaphone player from 1986-89, and is the first alumnus to be named director.

But for a while the honor of being the lone sousaphone player to serve as the I-dot in that scripted "Ohio" was reserved for men.

Being both a father and a sousaphone player is a lot of work.

From here, the sousaphone players run in a snake around the field jumping to drum line cadence.

Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States, was a sousaphone player.

But none deserved New York more than their five sousaphone players, including Andrew Parsons, 16.

Andrew Parsons, a sousaphone player from Alabama, had made it to the show.

Each time the formation drill is performed, a different fourth- or fifth-year sousaphone player is chosen to stand as the dot in the "i" of "Ohio."

Glen then became the first sousaphone player to dot the "i" on October 23, 1937.

Since then, a sousaphone player has dotted the "i" over 800 times.