Beall High School - Mountaineer Yearbook (Frostburg, MD)

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WHILE TAKING A BITE out of Brenda Whitaker’s chicken sand- wich, Janet Twigg steadies herself so that she won't fall from the win- dow. After the parade the band stopped in Hancock for dinner. SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVING in Win- chester. Collette Shockey and Kelly Myers find some time to relax before heading for the line-up area. Band members waited nearly an hour for the parade to begin. AT A DRESS REHEARSAL before the Meet The Squad performance, Brian Mur- phy leads a drum solo to get everyone psyched for their first show. The band be- gan summer practice on August 15 and showed their stuff August 26. receiving a standing ovation from the crowd. 18 BAND

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TWINS FOR A DAY. Tla Mclwee and Jill Poland take advantage of their last “out days. The two seventh grade friends dressed alike from their mini skirts to their Nikes. Feel in’ Summer had gone fast, and there it was in black and white — W School Year to Begin August 30 Into the land of late stay-ups and late sleep-ins marched the Board of Education’s calendar. We quickly adjusted, for another year of school meant another year older. We got used to new classes, new teachers, and new locker combina- tions. At home we put away cut-offs and tank tops to make room for ruffled blouses and prairie skirts. The sale at Fashion Warehouse put most students into Calvin Kleins for $24.99. Mom and Dad said “no” to late nights at the Lions Field and then pizza at Mama Rosa’s. It was back to doing dishes and finishing homework. Materials, needed for school, emptied pockets, and the financial burden of the year began. Lab and activity fees each cost $1.00, yearbook staff wanted a $5.00 deposit, and $2.00 promised a Chime subscription. Jocks were dressed and on the field by 3:20 and gave it all they had until the coach said “hit the showers.” Long after the players left, the flag squad was still practicing routines, sometimes as late as 7:30 p.m. Fall sports elected royalty Janna Lloyd and Wendy Monahan as soccer and football queens. Juniors chose Deborah Skidmore as Frostburg Fire Queen. As a joke Skidmore’s friends told her L B«em n she was required to ride on the fire truck, along with the fire dog. For two days Deborah worried about the dog until her friends told the truth. Through the excitement of cheering for two top area teams, the disappointment of returning to an unpainted school, the agonies of making good grades, and the waiting for drivers ed, we realized that all too quickly the year was underway. TO ELECT their officers, seventh graders gather in the girls’ gymnasium to listen to Student Council's President John Martir- ano explain the nominating and voting procedures. AT THE FIRST home football game. Drum Major Kelly May leads the band to the playing of the national anthem. May attended a Fred J. Miller drum major clinic and was awarded several honors for her work. ADJUSTMENTS

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— L Beeman MAKING HIS DEBUT in jazz ensemble. Brian Edwards reaches for a high note during In the Mood. Edwards has taken instrumental lessons for four years and piano for two years. AFTER THE PARADE. Melody Hitchins carries on with a flag corps member. Melodie Winebrenner. On the return trip home everyone had a good time listening to Jason Brode's tape player and stuffing their faces with Doritos and Twinkles. — L B««man we Got The Beat Unbelievable. Save the word from the St. Louis Cardinals, the Inner Harbor, E.T., and the Beall High Band. Suddenly, selling refresh- ments in the concession stand at halftime wasn’t the only concern of the Band Boosters, for parents paid $5.00 associ- ation dues and organized a pizza sale. The objective — to send the band to the Apple Blossom Parade in Winches- ter, Virginia, on Saturday, May 1. Two months before the pa- rade, Band Director Frank Munson gave out a new song, Grandioso, which members had to memorize. Some marchers had never had to memorize music before. It was a new experience for ev- eryone. In order to update the beat, Mr. Munson hired Craig Har- vey, a Frostburg College music major and a percussionist, to help the drummers put to- gether a new cadence. With Harvey’s ideas and some of their own, the percussion sec- tion had a new style and a jazzed-up cadence. Days before the Apple Blossom Parade, the band marched down Washington Street, McCullough Street, and back around the oval in front of Beall during seventh period. This was one time the band was enthusiastic about practice. Early Saturday morning, on their first big day, band members packed their coolers, brought their tapes and ghetto blasters, grabbed their clean uniforms from the closet, and piled onto the three buses. When the bus arrived in Winchester, all sorts of prob- lems arose. Larry Beal lost one of the buttons to his over- lay. Tausha Whitman’s boat shoes had to be polished black because she forgot her band shoes. And the worst problem was when Jay Jenkins realized that he had forgotten his trumpet. Since no one carried an extra instrument, Jay was stuck without one. He marched in the middle of the rank and hoped the judges wouldn’t see him. Amy Friend’s reed cracked, so she couldn’t play her clari- net, and “what notes did come out squeaked.” After the parade was over and the kids were in their shorts and tee-shirts, the bus- es headed to the Tastee-Freeze in Hancock. Chuck McCor- mick showed off at the arcade with a high score of 19,000 on the Astro Blasters machine. On their way home, the kids on the Band Bus §2 jammed to Louis Hall’s Rick James tapes while the eighth and ninth graders rocked to Jason Brode’s cassettes. At 9:30 p.m. three bus loads of exhausted band members, silk squad, and majorettes pulled into the oval. The buses were unloaded, instruments put away, the band room locked up. Everyone was ready to go home and hit the sack. It had been a tiring day. BAND