East High School - Birch Log Yearbook (Duluth, MN)

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56 'gcuzd H BAND HOW 1: R. Reed, A. Hanson, C Diehl, J. Ostrom, B. Wallace, M Gruber. ROW 2: K. Christiansen S. Bonnell J. Weber J. Olson K Cayo, J. lllottinghami, R. Weld: R. Gontjes, B. Holmes, C. Chesney, HOW 3: P. Hanson, D. Phillips, E Sher, D. Caldwell, J. Te pen, P Thorsteinson, B. Yoho, SilBrook- hart. ROW 4: C. Harrom, R. Gund- strom, D. Hoiem, R. Leppala, .l Bredeson, L. Olson, K. Borrevik, ROW 5: R. Orme, J. Stenstrom, M Buchanan, G. McDowell, H. Hess, M. Johnson. A pep band, composed of members of the senior band, furnished the music for all home basketball games. During the halves of these games, the majorettes and the band provided entertainment for the spectators. February 28 was the date of the annual winter concert. Solos, overatures, novelties, and marches comprised an enjoyable evening of music. Concerts at Denfeld, the Masonic Temple,P.T. A. meetings, assemblies, and the annual spring concert were also included in the band's schedule. To climax the busy year the band is planning a trip. All in all the band had a very successful year under the capable supervision and direction of Mr. Vickers.

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' miie ROW 1: C. Sandstedt, B. Lawson, W C. Clark, D. Vickers, P. Sulkoski, J. Darland. ROW 2: L. Shapire, S. Haskins, J. Wallberg, S. Karon, G. Holzer, L. Buchanan. ROW 3: R. Pederson, E. Davis, D. Tolman, G. Olsen, N. Erikson, M. Lynch, M. Kibbey, J. Anderson, G. Lempe, C. Hemmerling, J. Toms, G. Lundberg. ROW 4: R. Polinsky, M. Tomlinson, K. White. ROW 5: Mr. Vickers, L. Crystal, B. Pearson, R. Joslyn, R. Flint, W. Skomars, J. Lawson. ROW 6: R. Olsen, C. Rykken, K. Ander- son, W. Tinseth. Strike u the band! No motion picture would be complete without its musical back- ground. The East High Senior Band has not only accompanied the films of other organization but the band has also made its own. During football season they helped add much color and enthusiam to the games played at the stadium and the East Field. Form- ations at half-time varied from a football to the aerial lift bridge. Saturday afternoons often found the band makin the long march from 6th Avenue West to Leif Erickson Park. V These marches included tie Boy and Girl Week, Memorial Day, U.M.D. homecoming and the Fall Festival parades. A band member carried the school flag in each of these parades. 20 Eh

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7164154 Qaeda Zami ROW 1: M. Wheat, L. Roningen, E. Hay, N. McEldowney, T. Ludden, J. Pederson, C. Litman, D. Murray, K. Thrana. ROW 2: M. Gustafson, D. Gould, W. Crago, M. Iverson, R. Christie, D. Peterson, R. Fischer, M. Wallace, M. Blakeslee, J. Anderson, J. Fredson, F. Johnson, K. Coffman, L. Schelde, J. Johnson, R. DeCaigny, J. Eckholm, J. Davis. ROW 3: B. Peterson, C. Suech, J. Peterson, J. Voorhees, J. Anderson, C. Larson, M. Hendrickson, K. Hanson, B. Mettner, C. Stromberg, R. Brouse, R. Moland, L. Skomars, R. Abrahamson, L. Berry. ROW 4: J. Kelly, C. Johnson, M. Nelson, K. McTaggert, R. Srigley, R. Oman, L. Bruess, R. Johnson, W. Gustafson, K. Lindquist. HOW 5: Mr. Vickers, G. Schadwald, T. Fairchild, R. Tinseth,M. McHugh, N. Benson, V. Bruce, C. Anderholm. All those little bodies you see running around with big, heavy instruments are very likely to belong to East's seventh grade band. The first year of being in an actual band is excitin , not to mention a frightening ordeal. However, most of these aspiring musicians stick with Mr. qlick- ers and Mr. Tainio long enou h to play with the eighth grade hand. When you reach the eightql rade band, blowing on or strikin an instrument isn't so exhaust- ing. Really, it's a lot of fun, wien you come right down to it. ATso, y0llI' music seems to become quite grown up and difficult soundin . Next in line is the ninth ade fraud. This band is the next-to-top rung in the ladder ofband- playing at East. Members of Siis band form the German Band and also the Pep Band which plays at the junior high basketball games. Uniforms are an important part of the make-up of a good band. For their concerts, the seventh graders wear all white uniforms, the eighth graders wear red sweaters and white pants, and the ninth aders wear red sweaters and grey pants. Airin all, there is much enjoyment to be had in playing in a band. The work becomes fun when your goal becomes being a member of the senior band whose concerts and trips offermany wonderful times. 22'