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

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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

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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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ORCHESTRA 1935 There are many students in Rocky Ford High who .spend their recreation hours in the field of finer arts, particularly in the musical way. One of these fields is open through orchestra. The instrumentation was rather large, partially accounting for ,the progress. They participated in several contests, winning honors. In the state contest they tied for first place, receiving the rating of excellent PERSONNEL Mr. Ralph Rea, director FIRST VIOLINS I VIOLA Malloy Miller Roy Pugh CELLO Mildred Fuller Emil Roberts Evelyn Frazier Mildred Anderson Nedra Anderson SECOND VIOLINS Lorena Grogan Myron Hallows STRING BASIS Ronald Edwards Ronald Shafer TRUMPET Larry McQuerrey Wayne Miles Z M b H TROMBONE B225 CT':I.1?amp e Howardine Roach PERCUSSION Janet Broomfield Dolores Graham Harry Braden J erre Swink FLUTE Gilmore Harrison Carroll Wilson OBOE Jessie Ruth Bessire CLARINET Verne Elsesser Robert Smith BASSOON Marjory Jackson PIANO Edith Scott Page Eighty-five