‘To be a Belle in band is pretty freaking cool’: Saint Mary’s junior speaks on first all-female drum major line 50 years after ND Marching Band became coed

Maeve Filbin | Thursday, February 6, 2020

The day of the Notre Dame versus Michigan football game, two teams clashed beneath sheets of heavy rain. In the stands, Jill Ann Buettner stood soaked to the skin, water dripping down the pointed tip of her rain slicker, seeping through her wool uniform and splashing onto her sheet music. She was wet and cold,