Abbott High School - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Elgin, IL)

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ABBOTT BELLE MINSTRELS MR. JOHN F. FLETCHER, Sponsor Edmund Powell Howard Burton Douglas Roberts Harry Sale Kenneth Waterman Keith Olsen Richard Juby On February I5 antl I4 Mr. Fletchers blackface comeclians again gave four zlucliences some laughs anal music. Captain litlmuml Powell was an able interlocutor and thc stage setting, a boat and wharf scene, made a pleasing background. BOYS' GLEE CLUB Top row: Robert Graham, Louis Althen, Robert Crane, Richard Lay, Ralph Day, James Johnson. John Thompson, Douglas Roberts, Raymond Schrauf, Robert Hickey. Third row: Buford Davis, Paige Burbank, Robert Brown, Richard Prideaux, George Brown, Richard Lange, Walter Westphal, Henry Barton, Louis Bosnyak, Harry Koch. Second row: Roy Jernberg, Robert Smith, Arland Randall, Marvin Clements, Kenneth Waterman, Richard McCornack, Malcolm Lawrence, Richard Fink, John F. Fletcher, Director. First row: Russell Gooley, Robert Whitcomb, Lee Gabby, Arthur Krambeer, Samuel Sorce, Ronald Voltz, Leslie Davenport, Wilmer Griffith, Frank Waterman. l26l

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BAND LOG Sept. 12 Band Activities Stunt Feb, 13- Sept. 21 Pep Meeting March Oct. 10 Auditorium Concert Egfiih Oct. 24 Weiner Roast and Theatre Party April Oct. 26 Freeport Football Game, Band Paraded May Nov. 8 Fall Concert Dec. 6 Concert at State Hospital May Dec. 20 Christmas Party June Jan. 15 P. T. A. Concert June Minstrel Show Spring Concert Plato Center Concert Auditorium Concert District Band Contest at West Aurora Fox Valley Festival, Sixteen Abbott Band members participating Concert, Masonic Temple, Elgin lndus- tries Week Elgin Centennial Parade Kiwanis Convention Parade ' ABBOTT BAND ENSEMBLES Mr. Fletcher's band ensembles have had an active year. Many audiences have depended upon them for entertain- ment. The personnel and their programs follow: Brass Quartet Howard Burton Keith Olsen Orlin Frautnick David Richardson Twenty-four public appearances in Elgin and neighboring communities. Flute Quartet Mai-gene Foltz Audrey Bryant Phyllis Millen Jean Breslich Fifteen public appearances before Elgin and out of town Horn Quartet audiences. Keith Olsen Orlin Frautnick Lou Edythe Tazewell Kenneth Waterman Seven public appearances in Elgin, Plato Center, W. Aurora, and Urbana. Cornet Quartet Howard Burton Charles Knapp Orlin Frautnick Kenneth Waterman Played carols during Christmas season before seven diiferent audiences, both indoors and outdoors. Clarinet Quartet Walter Westphal John Amott Wilmer Griffith Marcus Amott Played at State Hospital and for the Chamber of Commerce Banquet. HOWARD BURTON WINS HONORS On May 2 Howard Burton won a First division rating in the solo comet group at Urbana and was recommended for the National contest at Madison, Wisconsin, on May 17. l25l

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ACTIVITIES Abbottorion Clubs Debating Drcmofics I'Ionor Students Grgonizotions When men are friends, there is no need of jzcsfieeg but when they are just, they still weed fViewdshwip.-ARISTOTLE. I27I