2.12.10

TO REMEMBER. Francis Stroup, composer of the Huskie Fight Song, centenarian, possibly better known for "Fight, North Texas".

More people were affected by Stroup's music this year, when a lyric he wrote for the Northern Illinois University fight song in the '60s — "forward, together forward" — became an unofficial motto after a campus shooting there in February.

"You never know how your words might help someone," he says.

Forever together forward.

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