This event is named in memory of Vicki Bowden Mobbs, drum major for the Kilgore College Ranger Band during the years 1978-1980. In addition to being drum major at KC for two years, she was a Ranger Beauty, Homecoming Queen, vice president of the Student Affairs Congress, Who's Who at Kilgore College, was a member of Phi Theta Kappa and was chosen by the faculty as the Most Representative Girl Student.
After leaving Kilgore College, she graduated cum laude from Stephen F. Austin State University with a bachelor's degree. She was a member of the Once...Always KC Twirlers Alumni group and instructed many majorette lines throughout East Texas. She died in August 1999 after a lengthy illness.
You can't think of the Kilgore College Ranger Band and not remember Vicki as drum major.The Once...Always KC Twirlers have chosen to name the classic in honor of her and in remembrance of the love, dedication and standard of perfection she had for twirling.