Rocky Ford High School - Le Cantaloupe Yearbook (Rocky Ford, CO)

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GRC!-IESTRA--1936 The orchestra has proved a fine place for students to spend' their leisure time. It has done several outstanding pieces of work, one of the most important being the part played in making the opera Rosamunde a success. Much commendwation and appreciation are due this group of students for making the idle moments between the acts of class and public performances enjoyable. FIRST VIOLINS Mary Jane Cartter Evelyn Frazier Mildred Fuller Nedra Anderson Mildred Anderson Lorena Grogan SECOND VIOLINS Zona May Campbell Janet Broomfield Betty Clark Dolores Graham Viola Hlavetly Richard Robbins Velma Evans PERSONNEL Mr. Ralph Rea, director VIOLAS Roy Pugh Anita. Ivey STRING BASS Hazel Baker TRUMPET Delvan Burrell TROIMBONES Dale Coppock Robert Cadwallader TYMPANI Harry Braden DRUMS Mary Belle Campbell FLUTE Carroll Wilson Charlotte Stevenson CLARINET Lester Samuels Robert Smith ALTO SAX Verne Elsesser BASSOON Marjory Jackson Page Eighty-three

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i BAND 1936 .gx Rocky Ford High School students consider the band a great asset to the school Not only does it afford a pleasant way in, which to spend ones leisure, but the partici- pants in the band have a chance to perform a great service to the school. The banid helps to add pep to the sport activities of the is-chool, to enliven t-he as- sembly programs, to play private programs and to provide entertainment for the :owns- people in the way of Public Band Concerts helld in the summer at library park. TRUMPETS Earl Heckman Fred Ikenberry Junior Bolling Roy iMiles Delevan. Burrell Burns Stauffer CLARINETS Jon Brown Blaine Gibson Jimmy Taguchi Robert Smith Evelyn Groth Paul Kitch Gennette Benning Leland Scott Page Eighty-two PERSONNEL Mr. Ralph Rea, director BASSOON Marjory Jackson HORN Billy Sidebottom PERCUSSION Harry Braden Jerre Swink Claude Loughlin Dorothy Hoffman SOUSAPHONE Dale Cadwallader TROMBONE Dale Coppock Delbert Wiant Robert Cadwallader Brice Crider FLUTE Carroll Wilson Charlotte June Stevenson ALTO SAX Verne Elfsesser Jimmy Burrell TENOR SAX Al Wunder BARITONE SAX Raymond Gibson BARITONE HORN Calvin Billingsley

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fx A f BAND 1935 Music is an art that is acquired only through hard work, but if one loves music, it changes from work to play, and affords many a happy hour. The School band has been very successful this year. Several contests 'were held in La Junta to determine wtho would be allowed to attend the contest in Colorado Springs. By Winning in La Junta, Rocky Ford was allowed to enter the contest at Colorado Springs where it received a rating of 'Aexcellentf' PERSONNEL Mr. Ralph Rea, director TRUMPETS Wayne Miles Earl Heckman Junior Bolling Larry wMcQuerrey Delevan Burrell CLARINETS Billy Holland Joe Brown Robert Smith Lester Samuels Paul Kitch Blaine Gibson Dean Holler Reed Nelson Frank Phillips Page Eighty-four BASSOON Marjory Jackson BASS CLARINET Delbert Wiant OBOE Jessie Ruth Besslier HORN Kenneth Gause PERCUSSION Harry Braden .Terre Swink Malloy Miller SOUSAPHONE Ronald Edwards Frank Holler TROMBONE Howardine Roach Brice Crider FLUTE Gilmore Harrison Carroll Wilson TENOR SAX Al Wunder BARITONE SAX Verne Elsesser BARITONE HORN Jack Schafer