John Glenn joins another exclusive club

The astronaut corps and the U.S. Senate are pretty exclusive clubs.

John Glenn is about the enter a group with an even smaller membership. He's going to "dot the i."

According to the Columbus Dispatch, Glenn, 88, will join the Ohio State Marching Band during the season-opening game against Navy Sept. 5.

When the band does it's famous "Script Ohio" formation, Glenn will finish of the maneuver by stepping forward to form the dot in the in the "i" in Ohio.

Script Ohio, first performed by the band in 1936, is considered one of the most memorable traditions in college football.

The i is usually dotted by a senior sousaphone player, but on rare occasions the band honors someone close the university or the state of Ohio with the privilege. Fewer than a dozen non-band members have dotted the i. They include Bob Hope, Jack Nicklaus and former Buckeye coach Woody Hayes.

Glenn hails from New Concord, Ohio and represented that state in the U.S. Senate from 1975 to 1999 after making a name for himself as one of the country's original astronauts and an accomplished military aviator.