Robert L.'Bedie' Bidez was the first director of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket Marching Band, which he founded in 1908 as a student at the

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. He was succeeded in that role by Mike Greenblatt. Bidez was a textile engineering graduate of 1912, vice president of the McGowan-Lyons Hardware and Supply Company in

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