Ames High School - Spirit Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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Director: Richard Day; Drum Majors: Campbell, Weeks, Knight, Mahannah; Head Drum Major: Brooker; Clarinet: Puffett, G. Buck, G. Richardson, Mahone, Kuck, D. Wilkins, Ullestad, Himmel, R. Thompson, T. Heggen, Satre, Busby; Cornets: DeHart, B. Fulmer, B. Buck, J. Rice, Beach, McIntosh, Flaugher, D. Stafford, Hummel, Kress; Saxophone: Lapp, Leininger, A. Grinstead, Carlson; Trombone: Likely, B. Grinstead, M. Burk, Martin, J. Elliott, N. Fulmer; Bass Horn: J. Taylor, E. Butler, Erwin, J. Buck; Drums: D. Carr, Cady, B. Stafford; Bass Drum: Braun: French Horn: B. Sills, Quist, Eichling, Fischer; Baritone Horn: D. Heggen, Morlin, K. Beresford; Bassoon: Clyde; Flute: Meads, Kirkpatrick, Vance; Bells: Baird; Oboe: McCracken; Bass Clarinet: Forman. ‘Band HE Ames High band has made fine improvement this school year. Our aim of a more perfect instrumentation and better music has been more nearly accomplished this year than in any other year of Band history. Our aims are steadily advancing, and we are enjoying our work and recreation. The concert band is composed of sixty members and five substitutes. Forty-five of these are in high school. The officers of the band this year are: Norman Fulmer, president; Bill Eichling, vice-president; Ellis Butler, secretary; and Richard Thompson, librarian. The marching band played at all home football games and demonstrated many new formations. In the fall we secured new drum majors uniforms and on Armistice Day went to Boone for the Boone-Ames football game. The Pep Band played for all home basketball games. Since the first of the year, the band has rehearsed in the music pavilion. The Dance Carnival, spensored by the Band and Orchestra Parents Association, helped raise money for the new uniforms which we plan to secure next fall. The concert band received an invitation. to play for the State Teachers’ Convention in Des Moines, November, 1938. The Third Annual Home Solo Contest was very successful with forty par- ticipating in fifteen divisions. The concert band entered the state music contests. Our masterwork this year was “Egmont Overture” by Beethoven; we also have quite a variety of numbers in our repertoire. This year two small groups were entered in the state music contest: the French woodwind quintet and the brass sextet. In April the concert band presented its annual spring concert. Many of the band members participated in the Story County Music Festival. We are looking‘ forward to a better band next year with the fine foundation which we have built up this year. Six BILL ErcHLING, 39.

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| i t | ў i м an we. uw лы, —— - Өл ы» nr a ETT urn Back Row: Foster, Mathison, Schubbert, G. Olson, McGuire. J. Myers. Second Row: O. Clark, В. Taylor, Plagge, Helser, Nichol, Sweeney, McElyea, Front Row: Galligan, Mary Taff, L. Wilkin, Caine, Mr. Smith, В. Iverson, Кире, В. Davis. ‘Dramatic (olub R EMINISCENCES of slavery, negro spirituals, the villainy of the heartless Legree, the cries of Eliza as she escapes over the ice, and the dramatic activities of Ames High are under way with the perennial favorite “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Under the direction of L. Wayne Smith, a most capable new staff member of the dramatic department, the play was produced with great facility and finesse. The cast, numbering two hundred, was one of the largest ever assembled for high school production. Not only was this an assemblage of a great cast, but it was attended by a very large audience. The production was supported by unusually capable technical crews and an active publicity department, as well as talent from the music division. The ofħcers of the club for this year are as follows: president, Dick Mathison; vice-president, Ora Clark; secretary, Barbara Giese; treasurer, Kathleen Kildee; make-up manager, Mary Taff; business manager, Marie Anderson; publicity man- ager, Doris Plagge. Judging from the success of these plays, one may look forward to any of Mr. Smith's productions. Dick MATHISON, 739, Га e e re E EE ES xod. adi амы” s Sat س‎ n Back Row: D. Thompson, D. Wilkins, Van Vlack, Mr. Smith, Wellhouse, T. Johnston, Schmidt, Second Row: Carty, Kildee, Mezvinsky, Riedesel, Dunagan, Giese, Evans, Olive. Front Row: M. Taff, M. And erson, Waller, Wallace, Cunningham, H. Hein, J. Johnston. Five

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Ames High Swingsters and Orchestra — ата T HE Ames High Swingsters’ organization came into being this year under the direction of Mr. Day. In return for playing at the matinee dances, the swing- sters were furnished with music by the school. In addition to playing at the matinee dances, the band played at a theater party for the football team at the Collegian theater on December Ach, and at the Band Parents’ Benefit Dance on February 4th at the Fieldhouse. ELLIS BUTLER, An. NSTEAD of dreaming during the last dramatic moments of the three high school plays, orchestra members busied themselves finding the next piece. We gladly overlooked this inconvenience, however, due to the excellent seats given us; a one- fourth cut in the proceeds was not the least of our many advantages this year. Other appearances were made at Commencement and Baccalaureate. The Ames High Theater Orchestra differs from the All-School Symphony Or- chestra of former years in that it plays a lighter type of music and is made up only of high school students. GENEVIEVE KIRKPATRICK, 38. E. Butler, Г. Воск. H. Hug, Sorenson, Dorchester, La Seur. mt Row: Kern, Lapp, T. Heggen., Mr. Day, Crosley, Flaugher, D. Heggen, Stafford, Taylor. Director: Richard Day; Violins: Dorchester, Mur. McDonald, A. Miller, Larson, Campbell, McCormick, McCoy, LaSeur; Flutes: G. Paulson, Meads; Cellos: L. Young, Whitfeld, Derby, Yetter; Oboe: McCracken; Clarinets: Swartz, Kuck; Bassoons: Braun, Clyde; Cornets: D. Stafford, Hummel, Beach; French Horn: Quist; Trombone: Elliott; Drums: Flaugher; Bass: J. Taylor; Bass Viol: J. Buck, КігЕрасгісе; Piano: Baird. Seven