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Jessica Brown and Phillip Minnich hug on stage after being announced as the winners of the Director's Award at the Reading Buccaneers Drum & Bugle Corps' year-end banquet Saturday evening at the Inn at Reading, Wyomissing. Brown donated a kidney to Minnich earlier this year.
Members of the Reading Buccaneers Drum & Bugle Corps like to think of themselves as a big family.
"We're a fraternity," said James C. Gruber, director of the Buccaneers. "Being in the Buccaneers, it's something you have with you for the rest of your life."
For Phillip Minnich and Jessica Brown, this is especially true.
On Saturday, Gruber honored Minnich, 25, of Palm, Montgomery County, and Brown, 20, of Hanover, York County, with the Director's Award. The award at the organization's year-end banquet came as a surprise for the pair, who met at a Buccaneers event in June 2012, and have been close ever since.
Gruber said the award is given to a member or members who truly embody what it means to be a Buccaneer.
"Jess just stepped up and helped Phil when he needed it," Gruber said.
In May, Brown, a baritone player, donated one of her kidneys to Minnich, who had been dealing with chronic kidney disease since 2002 and dialysis treatments since 2009.
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