Oakridge High School - Warrior Yearbook (Oakridge, OR)

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PEP BAND. FIRST ROW: Kathy Denison, Shirley Me- Kinnis, Margaret Toon, Nancy Baszler, Sherry Johanek, Suson Koy Helikson, Margie Twitched. SECOND ROW; Johnny Moll, Virgil Ricks, Ken Malmin, Adrian Sittser, Robert Broussard, Hubert Helikson, Judy Nesmith. THIRD ROW; Dan Bates, Nick Russell, Bob Sayre, Steve Jones, Larry Nelson, Allen Breckel. FOURTH ROW; Margaret Wells, George Bouhey, Mr. LaBansky. Virgil Ricks and Ken Malmin, freshmen trumpet players watch basketball game while sitting in Pep Band. 23

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BAND Bids Farewell to Master, Welcomes Uniform Change After 17 years of expansion and progress with District 76 schools, Beldon LoBansky retired as Band Director. Coming from a family of musicians in Sparta, Illinois, LoBansky found at Oakridge in 1949 a collection of 12 pieces. He has extended instruction down to the fifth grade where he thinks instruction has to begin to insure good high school musicians. During these years LoBansky had organized three bands totalling 180 in- struments: Elementary, Junior High, and Senior High. Though Bandmaster Beldon LaBansky never let up insisting on good instruments and good music, he re- lented as his 17-year reign came to an end at OHS and allowed a modernizing touch to the band uniform. The old broad gray four-in-hand was replaced with a narrow black clip-on tie. The rest of the fifteen-year old uni- form remained inviolate — heavy navy blue double breasted jacket, long, wide legged, field gray trousers. Fine for appearances in cold gymnasium, but torture chambers for warm springtime parades. The year of concerts began with the fall appearance in OHS gym, followed with the winter performance in con- junction with the Chorus groups, and ended with the spring concert given with the Junior High Band. Pep Band whooped it up at assemblies and games. A trip to hear the University of Oregon Band was made with decorum. But the Trip-to-the-Coast, a LaBansky tradition, was made with anything but. Two bus loads of musicians out of uniform, eight chaperones behind bifocals, plenty of refreshments, and too much exuber- ance, made it a day to remember — a lark to most, a bust to some. CONCERT BAND. FIRST ROW: Shelley Cutsforth, Margaret Toon, Cathy Devereaux, Connie Bramblett, Nancy Baszler, MaryAnne Mattson, Susan Kay Helikson, Sherry Johanek, Shirley Bottoms, Sherry Kirk, Linda Staska, Carlo Rhoda, Sue Heaton, Julie Bush- ong. SECOND ROW: Shirley Kelley, Patty Janssen, Nancy Clark, Sally Racy, Robin Olsen, Jim Fowlds, Hollis Twitchell, Sandy Johanek, Sherry Klosterman, Shirley McKinnis, Ronnie Nelson, Mary Lou Schoenburner, Margie Twitchell, Doug Jenkins. THIRD ROW: Dave McMurrick, Bill Crabtree, Virgil Ricks, Adrian Sittser, Ken Malmin, Craig Nesbit, Robert Broussard, Hubert Helikson, Steve Schoenfelder, Mike Sherlock, Marlyn Burton, Judy Nesmith, Bill Keith, Jerry Troute. FOURTH ROW: David Kelley, Johnny Mull, Dave Nowotny, Dan Bates, Dave Frost, Kathy Denison, Fred Hansen, Nick Russell, Jim Anderson, Bob Burdick, Larry Nelson, 22

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BAND OFFICERS: Shirley Bottoms, President; Nick Russell, Custodion; Suson Kay Helikson, Vice-President; Georges Bouhey, Publicity; Margaret Wells, Secretory; Dave Frost, Custodian; Margie Twitchell, Treasurer; Shirley McKinnis, Librarian; Potty Janssen, Librarian; Linda Staska, Custodian. Majorette Margie Twitchell Majorette Sharry Kirk