Woodrow Wilson High School - Crusader Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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BRASS: Front Row: Larry Freeland, Kenneth Morris, Gordon Chow, and Peter Hein. Second Row: Dehnyse Reyna, Reveille Vanbuskirk, Louise Carlisle, Dallas Wise, Neil Blend, Ronnie Floyd, Rand Campbell, Mike Cunningham, Louise Montoya, and Dirk Vanbuskirk. Third Row: Robert Ellis, Jerry Mayer, Pat Gribble, Alphine Freeman, Michael Crouch, Ronnie Gaf-ford, John Addington, Paul Stevenson, and Mike Elmore. Fourth Row: Jerry Teel, Howard Oas, Michael Longoria, and Louis Freeman. Scales, scales, scales! This was a magic word of Mr. Richey’s during the concert season. No matter what the instrument, a band member practiced faithfully on scales of all kinds to keep in good standing with his director. Here the band goes over a few drills together for tuning and warming up. Round-up night entailed many jobs for majorettes. Besides participating in the annual entertainment on the talent show, they were kept busy promoting the selling of rally tickets to boost tht treasury. 206

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The complete red and grey uniformed band, gits in concert formation. larches 6 to 5 A new method of marching was introduced by Mr. Jay Richey in his first year as director of the Woodrow Wilson Band. The Band learned to take six steps to every five yards instead of the former eight steps. This “six-to-five”, as experienced marchers called it, improved the execution of the half-time shows to a great degree. It is believed by Wildcat band members that never in recent years has the musical organization worked so hard and so long as this one. Spectators observing the band often agree with this evaluation and were delighted with the way the drilling has paid off. For three weeks preceding school opening the band members arrived at seven-thirty in the morning and worked constantly till 12 noon, alternately playing and marching, in an attempt to get as near to the director’s standard’s of perfection as possible. Never lax throughout the entire year, the band continued to meet at seven-thirty A.M. during both football and concert seasons, and on Monday evenings from 6:30 to 8:00. Hardworking drum major Ken Morris strives in every way to co-ordinate music and band movements that arc pleasing to all. 205

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PERCUSSION: Tom Taylor, Steve Wyrick, Richard Ellington, Gary Gillean, Bobby Gross, Ted Moffet, and Cliff Watts. WOODWINDS: First Row: Barbara Thomson, Mary Nichols, Judy Farmer, and Madge Boone. Second Row: Micheal Rink, Sharon Shaw, Alice Cope, Pat Rodrigues, Juanita Fischer, Suzan Going, Leslie Whittington, Kurt Brown, James Sturges, Harry Vance, Robert Miller, and Dan McClellan. Third Row: Jerry Harrison, Brenda Harres, Lorna Chamberlain, Velma Chism, Larry Langford, Katherine Copeland, Sue Gallagher, Jo Carol Phillips, and Shirley Smith. Back Row: Lanny Fargy, Randy Cole, Greg Pierce, Paul Meripole, John Vandertholen and Merida Chester. 207