sentences:  Today a scholarship for a marching band member demonstrating academic excellence is endowed in Adams' name.Walter Adams died at home of pancreatic cancer on September 8, 1998.Soon after his death, the former army cadet drill field west of the Music Building, from which the Spartan Marching Band steps off to march to the stadium on football Saturdays, was renamed from Landon Field (after the nearby residence hall) to Walter Adams Field.