2012–2013 MOBstaff

If you're looking to contact the Rice Bands department staff, please see our general contact information. If you want to know who really runs the day-to-day operations of The MOB, check out this team of talented and awesome Rice students, selected each April to fill the following roles:

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Kayla Schaefer
Drum major Hanszen College 2013 Statistics and Psychology Holds a biweekly support group for depressed lumberjacks.

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Peter Johannigman
Drum minor Hanszen College 2013 Cognitive Sciences Is distantly related to Smitty Webenjagermanjensen.

Executive Producer mail icon

Kat Humphreys
Executive producer Baker College 2013 History and German Studies Believes in the power of the "Yes!"

Event Coordinators mail icon

Amanda Walborn
Event coordinator Sid Richardson College 2013 Bioengineering Knows how to drive a forklift.
Ryan Rightmer
Event coordinator Sid Richardson College 2014 Bioengineering His descent into madness began shortly after he started referring to himself in the third person.

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Mary Waelder
Librarian Martel College 2013 Architecture Can dislocate her left arm at will.
Zack Devney
Librarian Brown College 2013 Biochemistry Peter just lost the game
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Elliot Rivers
Librarian Duncan College 2015 Computer Science Is the nicest person you know.
Jack O'Connor
Librarian Wiess College 2014 Computer Science and Linguistics Believes lizard people, who could travel between dimensions, enslaved humans in prehistory.

Equipment Managers mail icon

Mark Dudley
Equipment manager Duncan College 2014 Mechanical Engineering On a scale of sick to phat he's illin'
Asher McGuffin
Equipment manager Martel College 2013 Electrical Engineering and Math Plays an uncharacteristically cool triangle.
Sarah Ketchersid
Equipment manager Will Rice College 2015 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, possible Art double major with Biochemistry minor I've done origami since I was three years old. My dad taught me how to make a flying crane, and it stuck with me. I've been folding ever since.
Deleon (Beau) Reescano
Equipment manager Baker College 2015 Physics (and possibly CAAM) There is a rumor that I played saxophone in high school.
Nicholas D'Ambrosio
Equipment manager Duncan College 2015 Chemical Engineering I have flourished for an international audience and don't feel like any less of a man for having done so.

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Aryn Neurock
P.R. rep Brown College 2015 Art History and Anthropology Might as well be Irish.
Simcha Chan
P.R. rep Baker College 2015 Math and Psychology Legitimately daydreams while not dreaming.
Scott Nelson
P.R. rep Baker College 2013 Political Science and History Voted most likely to own a pink bicycle by his high school class.
Brandon Nguyen
P.R. rep Martel College 2013 Mechanical Engineering Not bi-polar, just bi-NGUYEN-ing!
Erica Stoddard
P.R. rep Jones College 2014 Biochemistry I once had to wrangle an emu.

Uniform Managers mail icon

Emily Pettigrew
Uniform manager Jones College 2015 Mathematics Is definitely not a kitten, and probably not a puppy.
Vanessa Jones
Uniform manager Wiess College 2015 Linguistics Does not speak Welsh or Klingon.

Graphic Designer

Joe Anderson
Graphic Designer Duncan College 2013 Physics and Math I have hair long enough for a brony-tail.

Historians

Erin Lytle
Historian Martel College 2013 History and Electrical Engineering Majored in the sciences just to figure out who Christiaan Huygens was.
Jake Ellis
Historian Duncan College 2013 History Legally ordained minister of the Jedi Order.

Script Coordinators mail icon

Steven Silverberg
Script manager Baker College 2013 Astrophysics Was a fan of the Texas Rangers before they started going to World Series.
Courtney Svatek
Script manager Hanszen College 2013 Linguistics Is literally a cyborg.

Webmastersmail icon

Galen Schmidt
Webmaster McMurtry College 2015 Electrical Engineering Has survived a full grown tree landing on him, after said tree blew over.
Jack O'Connor
Other Webmaster Wiess College 2014 Computer Science and Linguistics The guy so nice he's MOBstaff twice; click here to see other trivia!

Show Assistant Staff mail icon

Aryn Neurock
Producer Brown College 2015 Art History and Anthropology Might as well be Irish.
Sarah Craig
Producer Duncan College 2014 Anthropology and Linguistics I do research on culture and the Internet because I think it's pretty much the coolest thing ever.
Galen Schmidt
Producer Duncan College 2015 Electrical Engineering Has survived a full grown tree landing on him, after said tree blew over.

Section Leaders
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mail icon Strings
Kat Powell & Erica Stoddard

mail icon Flutes/Piccolos
Alicia Jones

mail icon Clarinets
Devon Morera

mail icon Saxophones
Lindsay Langford

mail icon Trumpets
Ian Mauzy & Eric Bush

mail icon Horns
Kaitlyn Sisk

mail icon Low Brass
Damien Stone & Cassie Barrett

mail icon Percussion
(Fluffy) Jack Reed & David Couch

mail icon Electronics
Victor Acuna

And of course, The Show Assistants, directed by the Executive Producer

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