Because the new job paid much more than his previous one, Holick wanted to give the school "more than just two tunes for its money and he asked the commandant for permission to start a cadet band". They requested him to play the bugle for Corps functions and for US$65 a month, he was assigned to play Reveille and Taps. Shortly after his arrival, the Commandant's staff discovered his musical talents. Holick accepted the proposal and moved to work at Texas A&M. The Aggie Band's first 13 members led by Joseph Holick Ross requested Holick be stationed at the new military college to perform cobbler duties. Lawrence Sullivan Ross, the president of the nearby college and a former Governor of Texas, stopped into Blatherwick's boot shop and noted how inconvenient it was for cadets to go to Bryan for their boots. The 22-year-old Holick began to doubt his choice, stating, "I was a small boy and couldn't do lumbering work", and chose to remain in Bryan working under Raymond Blatherwick, owner of a prominent boot shop. En route, the two stopped in Bryan, Texas, near the campus of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. In 1885, Holick and his brother Louis boarded an empty boxcar bound for Orange, Texas so that they could gain employment in a lumber mill. The Aggie Band owes its existence to Joseph Holick (born in 1868 in Moravia).
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