Alliance High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Alliance, NE)

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AHS Band Marches to First Place This year's flag team consisted of: Captain Katie Chouanard, Basketball Co-Captain Veronica |esse, Rachel Schmer, Patty Shaw, and Marcy Kerns. (Valerie Curtiss and Marching Co-Captain folene Brenner are not pictured). As a sophomore flag girl, Patty Shaw shows the concentration needed to perform at halftime during a home football game After a lot of early morning practices, the AHS marching band started off on the right foot by earning a ''one” rating at their first contest. However, a week later at the Sidney Oktoberfest Band Day, they won first place in both street and field marching in their division and second place overall. Their show included an introduction to the music ''Novena, a flag team feature to We Got the Beat, and concluding with Shadows of the Night.” Keeping with the beat, the flag girls added a flash of color and synchronization to the band. After a lot of hard work and dedication, they received excellent comments on their performances at both football and basketball games. As Captain Katie Chouanard said, Like any team, everything was not all roses; we had our rough spots. But I think we got it together and had a great year!” Angie Kerns, among others, carefully watches the majorettes for the tempo of the music. 18 Marching Band Flags

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Cynthia Smith gives a speech on sign language and talking to the deaf. This wins her first place at the contest. Speech team members are Tracy Overstreet, Vicki Clark, Scott Darveau, Linda Fairbanks, Steffanie Cobb, Matt Peterson, and Darla Prelle, (above) Linda Fairbanks and Vicki Clark portray a scene from The Bad Seed, (below). Speech Team Qualifies Two for State Leaping lizards! exclaims Annie. Tracy Overstreet's serious prose speech, based on the movie, Annie, wins second place at Districts. With Mr. Ross as sponsor, the eight member speech team put in a lot of hard work and attended meets around the panhandle. In order to prepare for a contest, each person or duet had to choose a topic, write it up, time it, cut or add information accordingly, and practice, practice, practice! All this paid off at the District meet in Chadron as the team placed fourth. Tracy Overstreet and the duet consisting of Linda Fairbanks and Vicki Clark went to state. Speech Team 17

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Head Majorette Nolene Roten, junior Majorette Susan Turgeon, and Sophomore Majorette Tracy Overstreet help lead the band during marching season Band Director Mr. Dick Rischling has the help of the three majorettes to keep everyone in step, in line and the tempo of the music steady. Not only do they help him during marching season, but they also perform at basketball games. Sophomore Majorette Tracy Overstreet had this to say about being a majorette, It's really fun and exciting, especially during football games!” AHS band members show their Bulldog pride Left, right, left, right - the band marches to their opening number, Novena. Their entire show won them first place at contest. It can be very, very cold when performing halftimes during football games. Cheryl Bolen and lohn Balderson illustrate this clearly while waiting to form the victory line, (above) The AHS Marching Band demonstrates their winning style, (left). Marching Band Majorettes 19