East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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W HERE CGME T H BA D Drum Majors Here comes the band . . . with our highfstepping colorful . . . snappy . . . drum majors in the lead. Quickly . . . skillfully . . . they twirl their batons . . . tossing them high . . . catching them again . . , never missing a step. Watch them . . . as they lead the band . . . at football games . . . other times, too . . . Doug Bacon . . . and the Taylor twins, E. Bandwagon Well known . . . well liked . . . well directed . . . the East High Band . . . is a very important part . . . of our school. Its lively music . . , is often heard . . . at pep assemblies . . . other assemblies . . . concerts . . . special events. No football game would be complete . . , without the music . . . the E. H. S. Band. The members work hard . . , but they like it . . . serving their school . . . gain' ing experience . . , under the direction of Mr. john McWhirter. 55 Taylor, Row 1: Eddleman, Carter, Booth, Levitt, Daws, Iorcnce, Brawer, Dickson, Timmons: Row 2: Junkins, Schauer, Russell, McCoun, Schartner West, Barmen, McNamara, Burrows, NVi1son, Wilson, Ingles, Rhroak, Branscom, Baker, Champ: Row 3: Bilfiori, Hockmuth, Harris, Ivers McKercher, Peters, Alson, Hansen, Titus, Utfelman, Western, Reynolds, Briant, Lynch, Savage, Clime, Surber, Copenhafer, Polly, Berton, Olsen Rfow 4: Taylor, Burton. Mutter, Humphrey, VVhite, Kiix, Kellogg, Longnecker, VanLiew, Bacon, Keeling, Kurschinski, Carry, Ried, Woody. Pickney Desing, Martineau, Trullinger, Priebe, State, Herbst, Russell, Carlson, Townsend, Ericson, Fellman: fStandingJ: McWhirter, Slocum, Johnson Simmons, Guthrie, Cunningham, Harvey, Aspengren, Dahl, Sturdevant, Peck.

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L... ,,,, ., ,,, i.h.A4. THE MELODY HOU Delightful . . . tuneful , . . melodious , . . valuable to our school . . . directed by Mr. John McWhirter . . . indispensf able for many various activities . . . an inspiring organif zation . . . provides very fine opportunities . , . to students of string instruments . . . and to all who are interested in this type of musical Work . . . to gain experience in play' ing with a group . . . and before audiences. About Hftyfiive young musicians Work very hard . . . to give us fine music through our orchestra . . . and to repref sent our school well . . . in outside concerts. Playing . . . repeating . . . playing . . . trying again . . . the violins . . tubas . . . flutes . . . drums . . . everyone does his best . , . during rehearsals . . . to give us . . . beautiful . . . rhythmic . . . charming . . . enjoyable . . . music . . . at their public performances. The orchestra is important to our school . . . furnishing melodious additions . . . to special activities . . . the fall play Big Hearted Herbert . . . occasional assemblies . . . and all the Commencement activitiesf-which are very im' portant to the seniors . . . upholding the good old East High tradition . . . of better than average . . , having a full semester . . . Working . . . and playing . . . giving of their talents . . . for the betterment of our school. Row 1: Langford, Speck, Playle. VVo0d, Meeker: Row 2: Fowler, Kietley, King, Mahaffey, Titus, Lawrence, Timmons, Mellrup, Otto, Rakielg Row 3: Reid, Southard, Townsend, Scott, Taylor, White, Belford, Hackmuth, Hansen, Francisco, Storey, Filliman, Trulinger, Herbst, Stoller, Clime, Champ, Grosclose: 1Standing7: Mr. McWhirter, Wil- son, Pollard, Cunningham, Harvey, Slocum.

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Row 1: Barman, Levitt, Evans, Keelinu Knot in picturej. Row 2: Sturdevant, Rhoades, Champ, Felman. THEIKNHQOFCHARM Many voices singing together . . . very beautiful tone . . . not a radio . . , our own A Cappella Choir . . . directed by Miss Sigrid Greenhill . . . most advanced of the vocal groups in East . . . second largest group in the entire school . . . about sixty voices . . . rated one of the best in the city . . . Takes part in various musical programs , . . in school . . . outside of school . . . it exchanges conf certs with those given by other senior and junior high schools in the city . . . practice very hard . . . meet on Mondays and Wednesdays . . , during third period . . . sing patriotic songs . . . hymns . . . songs of our armed forces . . . appear in Christ' mas program each year , . . Hornback, Sims, Fort, Dawnard, Brown, Yarn, bins, Back, Rasmussen, Dwyer, Brechtel, Barclay, Olsen, Meeker, Noah, McConnell, Row 3: Cos- grove, Heggen, Kessell, Wald. Spitle, S n o w, Speck, Pike, T h 0 m a s, Norris, Grosecloseg Row 4: Skinner, Taylor, Berg, Ratton. HH7PARADE The cats are really on the beam this year . . . put all the squares and ickies alike on the floor . . . first shinfnock on the Thursday before the first football game . . . last has yet to come . . . eight members this semester . . . Morton Levitt, alto sax . . . Bill Evans, tenor sax . . . Bill Barman, alto sax . . . Bob Sturdevant, drums . . . Ken Keeling, Piano , . . Jach Rhoads, trumpet . . . jerry trombone . . . Corwin Champ, trumpet and leader . . , john McWhirter, advisor . . . play for LeeZur hours . . . allfschool parties . . . social events . . . give out the latest in swing and jive . . . if you haven't heard and danced to them, you've really been missing some' thing . . . V. Row 1: Wallner, Dixson, Knudsen, Rife, Bernoski, Franklin: Row 2: Green- hill, Maplethorpe, Rob-