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Halftime Heroes: Director leads Riverside Military Academy band into new era

Cadet William Fox and the rest of the Riverside Military Academy drum corps perform Tuesday morning as cadets line up before entering the dining hall for lunch.

0916BAND5 — Cadet William Fox and the rest of the Riverside Military Academy drum corps perform Tuesday morning as cadets line up before entering the dining hall for lunch.

Kristen Oliver

Updated: Sep 16, 2016, 12:00 AM

Published: Sep 15, 2016, 9:36 PM

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Stephen Giove remembers, as a child in Hollywood, Fla., regular parades through the city put on by a local military academy. That school was Riverside Military Academy, which had a winter campus in the city until a fire in 1959. Today, Giove is the new band director at Riverside.

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