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  • First OSU Band Member To 'Dot The I' Dies (The Incomparable Script Ohio)

    04/25/2005 6:23:00 PM PDT · by Columbus Dawg · 11 replies · 1,071+ views
    WCMH-TV Columbus, Ohio ^ | April 25, 2005
    COSHOCTON, Ohio -- John Brungart, the first person to ever "dot the i" in the Ohio State marching band's trademark Script Ohio, died Saturday. He was 89. Doris Brungart said her husband died of pneumonia. The couple lived in Coshocton and John Brungart died at Coshocton County Memorial Hospital. The Ohio State band first performed its cursive spelling of the state at halftime of a 1936 game against Indiana. Brungart played trumpet and was selected to "dot the i" which entails breaking free from the single-file marching column from the top of the second "o" to the supply a human...