Source: Copied from old Promotional Distribution Pamphlet

Tommy Van Band and Tommy Van and his Orchestra
A Tommy Van Band Publicity Photo was taken in the late 1940s.
It and the following article appear in the History of Ashland County, Volume II by Betty Plank, Page 129.
In the first row: Gene Cole (Piano), Barbara Taylor Jones (singer), Scotty Kaylor, and (saxophones): Gene Burns, Jim McDowell and Dick "Duco" Lutz.
In the back row: George Downs Marble (trumpet), John Schaum (drums), Leo Jones (trumpet), Tommy Vanosdall (bass) cello, and Emory Wages Marble (trombone).
In the inset at the top left is also Lutz, who fronted the band.

Tommy Vanosdall recalls:NOT EVERYONE SHARED BIG BAND EUTHUSIASM
"For the big band engagements, we added an extra trumpeter and trombone player, as well as a trio consisting of Mary (Loyd), Janet Morr, and Hattie Reaser (Semple). "Sometimes we played as many as three engagements in a weekend, traveling in a bus driven by Ross Awwiler." They never went "on the road" since the musicians kept their "day" jobs. Often they return in the morning about the same time the milkmen were making their rounds. The big band enthusiasm was not shard by everyone. Some folks in Hayesville equated playing in a band as "a form of vice" and Tommy Vanosdall did receive some anonymous letters while teaching. Dancing was not allowed on campus when Vanosdall began teaching at Ashland College in 1939. There were those who thought it would not be good for the school, if he should play any local engagements. From 1941 to 1943, while Vanosdall was furthering his education at Ohio State University, Norris Fluke played bass with the band.
Source: History of Ashland County, Volume II by Betty Plank, Page 129

About The Three “SONG STYLISTS”
By DeCody Brad Marble

Professor of Music, Ashland College, Ashland, Ohio
Dr. Thomas Clark Vanosdall, the son of Charles Starritt Vanosdall and Maud of 337 West Main Street, Ashland, (1911 Directory), the grandson of Clark Vanosdall and Belle of 523 West Main Street, Ashland, (1911 Directory), was born on 19 July 1911, in Ashland, Ohio.
Thomas Clark Vanosdall married Helen Ruhlin.
Thomas Vanosdall died on 04 September 2001, Ashland, Ohio.
The Marble Twins: “A Couple of Firecrakers”, Trumpet and Trombone

Professor of Economics, Ashland College, Ashland, Ohio
George Downs Marble, the son of Duane Pierce Marble and Magdalene Knapp of 723 West Main Street, Ashland, (1911 Directory), was born on 03 July 1914, in Ashland, Ohio.
George Marble married Marion Elizabeth Dannley on 15 August 1942, in Ashland, Ohio.
The 1968 Pine Whispers Yearbook honored George D. Marble, Associate Professor of Economics at Ashland College, by selecting him as the dedicatee.
Marion Elizabeth Dannley Marble, an Elementary School Teacher for 25 years, Marion taught at Montgomery Elementary School, in Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio between the years of 1949 - 1970.
George Marble died on 27 December 1997 in Ashland, Ohio.

Pharmacist at the Medical Arts Pharmacy, Claremont Avenue, Ashland, Ohio.
Emory Wages Marble, the son of Duane Pierce Marble and Magdalene Knapp of 723 West Main Street, Ashland, (1911 Directory), was born on 03 July 1914, in Ashland, Ohio.
Emory Marble married Sara Louise Mowiser on 10 April 1941, in Ashland, Ohio.
Emory Marble married Thelma Hettinger on 16 January 1956, in Ashland, Ohio.
Emory died 07 May 1999 in Fort Walton Beach, Okaloosa County, Florida.

contributed by
DeCody Brad Marble
marbledb@bellsouth.net