MURRAY, KY (KFVS) - Alumni of the Murray High School's Marching Tiger Band will gather June 8-9 to celebrate winning the Marching Bands of America Grand National Championship in 1977.

The reunion marks the 35th anniversary of the competition which brought the national championship trophy home to Murray. The event took place in Whitewater, Wis., where the Marching Tigers outscored Live Oak High School from California by one-tenth of a point.

The theme for the event is “The Way We Were,” which was the finale song for the band for their 1976-1977 field performance.

"This is an opportunity to gather together a group of champions who worked so hard to inspire one another to win and make proud their high school and their community," said Terri McConnell McDonald, former band president. 

CALLOWAY COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - The National FFA Organization has awarded a $1,000 Archer Daniels Midland Company scholarship to Jay Green of Calloway County High School FFA.

Green plans to use the funds to pursue a degree at Murray State University. ADM is sponsoring a total of 80 scholarships through a special project of the National FFA Foundation and is also providing a $250 grant to the Calloway County High School FFA to assist in its continued educational excellence.

Scholarship recipients were selected from 8,050 applicants from across the country. Selections were based on the applicant’s academic record, FFA and other community activities, supervised agricultural experience in agricultural education and future goals.

CALLOWAY COUNTY, KY (KFVS) - A Calloway County High School Japanese Language student and class valedictorian has been selected to participate in the Japan Exchange and Teaching Memorial Invitation Program for U.S. High School students.

Sarah Wade is four-year Japanese Language student and will be going to Japan for two weeks starting July 8.

The program will commemorate the efforts of the JET program participants (Taylor Anderson and Montgomery Dickson) who lost their lives in the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. The Japan Foundation has invited American high school students who are studying the Japanese Language to Japan in order to provide them with an opportunity to deepen their knowledge of Japanese language and culture, in the hope that they will serve as a bridge between the two countries in the future. The program, run in cooperation with the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will be limited to 20-30 students from all over the U.S.