Edison High School - Torch Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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rM 'W'W M WM' fi Mgmt 1--me 6 5 time entertainment. 2. Students in the marching band are in the stands yelling for the Eagle football team. 5. For the first time in the history of Edison, freshmen students march with the Golden Ea le Band. 6. Members of the band stand in formation as they perform the half- Mcrching Bond o 25

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'tlle tllanted Uur Band in Be Best' Did we enjoy marching in the freezing cold, mud every morning at 7:15 for the first two months of school? You've got to be kidding. But we did it for reasons that weren't always quite clear. Of course, the music was important ibut we could have learned that in classj, so there was something else. A togetherness, a certain mutual feeling that said, We want our Golden Eagle Marching Band to be best! The band marched for ap- proximately an hour and a half before school every morning in September and October, not including about two to four hours a day the last two weeks in August. The band prepared for weekly pre-game and half- time entertainment, along with contests like the Marcharama fan all-city band contestj. And this year they marched at the O.S.U. homecoming and in the Santa Claus parade too. Tall white hats and green and white uniforms covered the field as the band, under the direction of Mr. Ed Gibble, and the drum majors, Phil Pool and David Alaback, per- formed. Stephani Seaman, fea- ture twirler, also took her place at the head of many in- teresting formations including a pagoda, a mexican hat, a clock and the Edison big Why, this year even Big Ed was back in working condition fafter a new paint job, that is!J All that work didn't always pass without a grumble though. In fact at about 10 minutes before the final bell the girl's bathroom was always a mess of dirty tennis shoes, ruffled dresses, flying hair curlers, hastily applied make- up and rushing girls. And peo- ple in the office won't easily forget that young lady who called her mother and cried, HI forgot my shoes!', fMuddy tennis shoes with hose and a dress?J 1. At Skelly Stadium drum ma'ors, Phil Pool and David Alaback stand at the head of the Eagle band. 3, Members of the marching band are preparing to go on the field for their performance. 4. During the pre-game show Stephani Seaman twirls her batons, 24 o Marching Bond 3

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