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3 weeks ago | 
tomahawkleader.com | Kris Leonhardt
By Kris LeonhardtMMC Senior EditorGREEN BAY – Over the last century, Green Bay Packers photography has grown synonymous with names like Stiller, Biever and Harmann, but one of those names is looking to relinquish that history to someone who might value it more. The history of Harmann Studios can be traced back to the production of black and white images in a family farmhouse in 1958.
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1 month ago | 
tomahawkleader.com | Kris Leonhardt
By Kris LeonhardtMMC Senior EditorPart I in a seriesGREEN BAY/STURGEON BAY – “She was a very gregarious person. Everyone knew Mary Jane, and Mary Jane knew everyone else, especially in the Green Bay area,” Dave Sorgel said of his stepmother, Mary Jane Van Duyse Sorgel. “She was the epitome of the Green Bay Packers.
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1 month ago | 
tomahawkleader.com | Kris Leonhardt
By Kris LeonhardtMMC Senior EditorContinued from last week“Before the 1963 season, the Packers’ famous Lumberjack Band changed its name to the Green Bay Packer Band and members abandoned their old outfits for green blazers and gray trousers with gold stripes. Word was Vince Lombardi wanted the band to have a more sophisticated look,” Packers Historian Cliff Christl wrote in The Greatest Story in Sports.
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1 month ago | 
antigotimes.com | Kris Leonhardt
By Kris LeonhardtMMC Senior EditorContinued from last weekCarol Jean Collard wasn’t quite three when she started with the Lumberjack Band and is noted as the band’s first majorette. “Within the next several years, the Packers band drum majorette became a permanent fixture at Packers home games (both in Green Bay and in Milwaukee),” wrote Lee Remmel.
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2 months ago | 
tomahawkleader.com | Kris Leonhardt
By Kris LeonhardtMMC Senior EditorContinued from last week“Those intimately concerned with the destinies of the Green Bay Packers have seen for some time that a football game, even a bang-up battle, is not quite enough entertainment for the average fan. The result has been the formation and financial sponsorship of the Green Bay Packers Lumberjack Band,” Sports Writer Ray Pagel stated in his column “Looking Up” in 1942.
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2 months ago | 
tomahawkleader.com | Kris Leonhardt
By Kris LeonhardtMMC Senior EditorContinued from previous weekIn 1939, the Lumberjack Band “swing band” was performing at all of the Green Bay Packers home games, as well as concert dates at the Columbus Club with 25 musicians. And when the team stepped off the Milwaukee Road train that December, the Lumberjack Band was there along with hundreds of people crowding Washington Street from Mason to Chicago to welcome home the champions.
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2 months ago | 
antigotimes.com | Kris Leonhardt
By Kris LeonhardtMMC Senior EditorContinued from previous weekIn 1939, the Lumberjack Band “swing band” was performing at all of the Green Bay Packers home games, as well as concert dates at the Columbus Club with 25 musicians. And when the team stepped off the Milwaukee Road train that December, the Lumberjack Band was there along with hundreds of people crowding Washington Street from Mason to Chicago to welcome home the champions.
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2 months ago | 
tomahawkleader.com | Kris Leonhardt
By Kris LeonhardtMMC Senior EditorContinued from previous weekBack in 1931, the Lumberjack Band had been leading the crowd with the fight song, “Go! You Packers Go!” — composed and written by Erich Karll. “The original idea for the Packers song was one of those things which seemed like a ‘screwball’ idea at the time but which caught on and paid off,” a Sept. 4, 1953, Press-Gazette article stated. “Karll lived in Green Bay at the time and wrote the words for the song.
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2 months ago | 
antigotimes.com | Kris Leonhardt
By Kris LeonhardtMMC Senior EditorContinued from the February edition of the Press TimesIn 1929, 1930 and 1931 the Lumberjack Band continued to back the Green Bay Packers during contentious Chicago games, financed by a community collection. For many years, the Lumberjack Band was formed with members of the American Legion Band, but a disagreement between the American Legion and the band occurred in the following years and the band severed ties with the organization.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
tomahawkleader.com | Kris Leonhardt
By Kris LeonhardtMMC Senior EditorGREEN BAY -- Green Bay Packers Former Director of Public Relations Chuck Lane died Jan. 19 at 82. Lane worked under Packers Former Head Coach Vince Lombardi. “Lane also was heavily involved in the organization of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame Association. In fact, he was one of seven men in attendance at the association's first meeting in February 1970,” Packers Historian Cliff Christl wrote.
