Ruskin High School - Mirage Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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. AND GETTING THERE IS HALF THE FUN! We're going to the Orange Bowl. We're what?! We're going to the Orange Bowl. Thus started a project of gargantuan proportions that would, ultimately, involve the entire Kansas City area. The entire idea was hatched during the 1973-74 marching season. The splitting of the school district into two high schools seemed to spell doom for the Ruskin band. With fifty-five sophomores and a few up- perclassmen, it was felt that RHS could no longer keep up her winning band tradition. But nothing kept the band down-they worked and work- ed and took first place in marching and concert contests, and to reward them, a trip to Tennessee's Cotton Bowl was planned. The idea was vetoed by the school board when it was learned that school time would be missed. The Band Parents Executive Board wasn't to be denied, and plans for another trip were still discussed. A letter was sent to Florida's Orange Bowl Committee, telling of the band's many honors and inquiring what the qualifications were to be accepted. A short time later Ruskin received the coveted invitation-an invitation to appear before all America in one of the country's most celebrated New Year's events-the Orange Bowl Parade. Fourteen years had passed since a project of this magnitude had been 4. undertaken, and the Ruskin Band Parents rose to the occasion. The first plan of action was to organize into small planning groups, each headed by one member. The most crucial of these were the groups for finances and transportation. Headed by Mr. Bob Carver, the finance committee schemed up several money-making programs for each of the 112 band members to raise the required 35150. These plans included: the sale of key chains, candles, wall plaques, and kits of household items, a soap box derby, and car washes. Money from these ventures was put into each students account on each of three check-in dates. Projects which accounted for larger sums of the total 320,000 included S3600 con- tributed from Booster Club's Haunted House, and S4000 raised by the band's operation of concession and souvenir stands at Kansas City Chiefs and Royals games. Contributions from area businesses also counted significantly. Other minor details included finding chaperons, distributing them among band students, finding lodging along the trip and in Miami, book- ing restaurants, organizing activities, making bus lists-in other words, a billion large and small details that someone had to look after. And that someone, who cared enough about Ruskin and its band included, among others, the Band Parents Club, the Booster Club, Mrs. Norma Snodgrass, and Mr. Jim Snodgrass. For without them, the band's Orange Bowl trip would never have come to pass. 5 ,i ' f f i . 4. -:id '13, . H Aw ' R to f J, H... I And here's one of Cypress Gardens' most familiar skiing sights. Flipper and friends do their Sea World act for the visiting Kansas Citians. 1 'l . ,. .1 ,'. I 5, I z 117 H 15 U! ft f K: I t T i V X 1 :Wd .. M.. 'F ,.f1,1,t.f' 15 9f.,., if I ti. H X, -fifnyfg tit . 4 . Y .rf-'?3,?f ,fi f 1 L. gp 1-1. ORANGE BOWL PARADE-OR BUSTU 23

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