First Chair of America - National Yearbook (Greenwood, MS)

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HISTORY OF THE LOCKPORT TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL BAND The Lockport Township High School Band, under the direction of Ernest O. Caneva, is recognized as one of the most outstanding musical organizations of the nation. Since 1934 it has consistently won honors in every contest it has entered-district, state, national, and international. The band has been awarded the Governor's Trophy at the Illinois State Fair six times and has placed first seven times at the Chicago Tournament of Music. It has also gained permanent possession of the Bowman Dairy Trophy by winning first place three consecutive years at Harvard, Illinois Milk Festival. Two Admiral Trophies have also been awarded to the band through competition at Harvard. In 1953 the band participated in the Holland, Michigan Tulip Festival as a guest band and was invited back in LOCKPORT, Lockport has a population of about 6,000 and is highly industrialized-mainly by such companies as the Texas Company, Pure Oil Company, and Steel Companies. In the last five years the Lockport High School has grown to an enrollment of 1,100 studets. Seven public grade schools, two parochial schools, and the Lockport High School provide a fine education for the youngsters in the community. Each grade school has its own band and music department, developed over a long 1954. In 1940 the band played at the New York World's Fair and received a parchment and plaque and on the same trip gave an outstanding concert on Constitutional Avenue in Washington, D. C. The band participated in the Lions International Parade in Atlantic City, New jersey, in 1952 and received second place in competition with sixty-four bands. In 1953 the band again entered Inter- national Lions Competition in Chicago and tied for first place with the Joliet Township High School Band. The band was declared state champions in 1939, 1941, 1946, 1947, and 1949. It was chosen as one of nine outstanding bands in the nation to perform in concert at the 11th Annual Mid-West National Band Clinic in Chicago where it brought the four-day clinic to a brilliant close on Decem- ber 21, 1957. ILLINOIS program of twenty-four years. Then band rooms in some of the schools are of the finest in the state. The Lockport High School has one of the finest band rooms in the country with facilities including practice rooms, built-in risers, etc. adequate for at least 150 students. The program is completely financed by the Board of Education, but help in raising money is also provided by the Band Boosters Organization made up of parents and friends of the band. T SENIOR BAND GIRLS BACK ROW: Frances DeSandre,' Librarian, First Flute, Darlene FRONT ROW: Sally Shwp, Ist Alto Clarinet: Patti Drake, Ohboei DePra, 3rd Horn, Accompanist to Chorus, Camille Abrams, 2nd BOPUIC Revels, 5rd SHXOPIIOHCS IUCIY Del 521350, 2nd Tf0mb0l'l1UU13 Clarinet, Cecile Chinderle, lst Bass Clarinet, Jacqueline Feltz, lst Bassoon. Wilma Wawczak, lst Trombomumg Carol Cavoretto, 2nd Clari- net, Marilyn Vonch, lst Clarinetg Not pictured, Jane Murray, lst Horn.

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D ICAT1 99 O LOCKPORT TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL BAND LOCKPORT, ILLINOIS The 1958 Edition of FIRST CHAIR OF AMERICA is dedi cated to The Lockport High School Band and to its director Ernest O. Caneva, because they have set a standard in perform ance which raises the dignity of the music programs in the nation's schools. ..- V 'if- I' ' -r '. Ia, ,f ....a.,,.. -. . - lf , 'fishy' H,-ff f f '1..g I I. - LIP' fi '-'..'l:gi.tE' 1. -' L'4,I N, f, .' . 1 , c- . lj! r:'Tif 5 'r 'paw-if 1 I it f' H Ji' .V ,. ,. H I-' I- ,F M-'f. .' ,uf F - IQ?-.L . -' 52' wi 'I I in lf'-, , K, Srl all

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THE PERSONS WHO GOVERN LOCKPORT LOCKPORT POLICE Above are the men marching practices football games. QL Fuser- '-.-13 .- '1 -FQJ'-W , and women who are of so much help to us in arranging parades on the streets, and controlling traffic for us before and after ft to Rightj Sgt George Geary Officer Jerome Taskey Officer e . , , Robert Gait, Officer john Price, Officer Dolores Feithen, Officer William Feithen Sitting: Chief Stephen Reed. CITY COUNCIL OI' LOCKPORT fLeft to Rightj FIRST ROW: dent of Waterworksg EARL KARSTENS, City Clerk Mayor DANIEL T. LAMBERT JOSEPH O. DARIN, Alderman of the Second Ward WILLIAM BROWN, Alder- man of First Ward BACK ROW: CLAUD M. WIDNER, Alderman of Second Ward SWEN A. NELSON, Alderman of Third Ward NORMAN F. SOLLEY, Alder- man of Third Ward MANFRED CARLSON, Alder- man of Fourth Ward GLENN E. MILLER, City At- torney CHARLES F. ENZ, Superinten- 5