Lutheran High School - Paw Prints Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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They come toe-tapping, and brain- blasting in tails, black tie and sneakers, enlisting chanters and cheers with the syncopated rumble of the drums and feet. Blasting out from depths of shin- ing brass and billowing cheeks come strains of 25 or 6 to four, You ' ve Made Me So Very Happy, Sweet Georgia Brown, Make Me Smile, and Windy. They relieved the Drill Team of the scratchy, ancient records of last year and provided a new livliness to the per- formances. During quarter breaks en- tertainment sounded from the pep band ' s musical contraptions ranging from the Mickey Mouse theme song and Hogan ' s Heroes to the Batman Theme (complete, of course with Batman). The trumpets trumped, the tuba bel- lowed, and the baritone blustered, eyes closed in sweaty concentration, fingers ached tensely to remain alert. Their acclaim was limited, the applause not so often, but we thank the nimble fingers and swollen lips of Paul Leslie, Steve Hilpert, Mike Bruneer, Randy Moll, Mitch Maalis, Tim Whitehouse, Greg Koenker, Steve Tirmenstein. Rich Reaser. Phil Novak, Lyle Smith, and Mark Goetz.

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wee willy woodwinds Shrill squeaks and groans and the sounds of escaping air fill the room containing the kids of the elementary school band. The band ' s main purpose is to introduce music to kids from the fifth grade to the eighth grade, to teach them to read it, play it, and ideally, love it. For those who reach these goals with a show of increased interest and talent is a promotion to a special group for the most advanced. The bands join together for small concerts and performances. In upper right hand corner they add their effect to Lutheran High ' s own band at Homecoming. Even though the result may not be on par with the philharmonic band, they display a real eagerness for learning, which in itself is pretty refreshing. For three semesters Mr. Glen Anderson has been traipsin ' off to the far corners of southern Cali- fornia teaching elementary band at different grade schools. He is also one of those members of Lu- theran High branded as a one period teacher. His classes included first semester — Modern Church, and second semester — Communications II. Al- though he feels there is a tremendous eagerness to learn among grade-schoolers, he prefers to teach high school (even taking into consideration the variety in enthusiasm from day to day). Of his teaching he explains, I try to help them create lines of communication — lines which express the feelings one has about himself and the people a- round him. When I am given the rough material I need to set up a communicative experience di- rected toward those around me, I can feel most productive — like when I ' m directing choirs and dramatic productions. To make his life more creative he would like to be given more of an op- portunity to function within an area in which he feels most gifted. Having taught grade school band for seven years, including four years at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in St. Paul, Minnesota and the past three years here at LHS, Mr. Larry Lebrecht has found that he prefers teaching older students to his younger grade school students. I find that the high school kids are in rriost cases very eager to learn the difference is that high schoolers don ' t accept what I say as easily as younger children. He comes in one period a day to teach What Others Believe, and then he ' s off to his classes at various grade schools teaching young children to make squeaks and squawks into music. I try to create in my students a closer love of God and all the things He has created for our pleas- ure. I like to experiment in teaching methods and visual aids. To make his life more fulfilling he would like to be able to teach full time at LHS. He ' d like to teach more religion classes to expand be- yond just teaching band.