Aldine High School - Round Up Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Band Festival Concert Highlights Spring f members prepare to play a selection by Bach, Fantasia ln G conducted by Mr. Goodman. Each year to welcome the spring season, the Aldine High School band gives a spring concert. This year the band presented three of their contest numbers to the audience and to the clinicians, who were iudging the band's performance. The Pre-Band Festival concert was given on a Friday evening, and then on the following Satur- day morning, the Band Festival Concert was given. One week after the concert, the band was judged, and rated first, by the lnterscholastic League, in which twenty schools participated. This league determines the enrollment of differ- ent schools and classifies them as B on up to 4A. E , , ..,. , Band members rise, as Mr. Goodman enters onto the stage to mark the beginning of the Band Festival Concert. When asked the importance and significance of placing first in the League, Mr. Goodman, direc- tor of the band, replied, This is very important. To make first in the League, is higher than above average. It is SUPERIOR, indeedl One month after the Band Festival Concert, on April 29 and 30, the Aldine Mustang Band then iourneyed to Corpus Christi, Texas to participate in the Buccanneer Music Festival. Participation in this Festival is by invitation only. The Band received a Division I in concert ability. The flute quartet also scored a first division.

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This year the Thespnan Club has forty one members T hespians Present Last Play of Year THE HERITAGE OF WIMPOLE STREET , was pre- sented to the student body, on March l5. The play is about Elizabeth Barrett Browning after her death and about her embittered father. An inter- esting feature of the play is that it portrays what might have happened if Edward Barrett had lived to see his grandson. The play takes place about 1856, around tive o'clock on a winter evening. The scene is the drawing room at 50 Wimpole Street, London, England. Clarence Standlee played Edward Wimpole, master of Wimpole Street. His grandson, Robert Barrett Browning was played by Johnny Davis. Brenda Cherry played Henrietta Barrett, Edward Barrett's daughter. Melanie DeMent portrayed Ara- bel Barrett and her daughter. Sandra Albritton was the maid Jane. Robert Barrett Browning Uohnny Davisl listens respectfully as his grandfather Edward Barrett CClarence Standleej repri- mands him. l56

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, , .2f 4 ' . Aldine HOSE iX it l w- . . Jetera Relays in V 1 i q s Seven records were broken in the Jetera Relays rel as Sam Rayburn H.S. took first, Sam Houston sec- '1 .. ond, and third, by Robert E. Lee. Records broken is yy 1 i A K vigil., were the following: L Si 8 R ' 4'rt V-.V lg iii High Jump 6' IW -Tim schaiier of Sam . f .J J ' Rayburn. bRi' M 121 Discus 162' 8 -Gerald Kirby of R. E. Lee. x Rfb ,J C37 Broad Jump 22' V2 -Jerry Martin of St. jg y y , e . s . ....... . '.'ss Thomas. 2 Q 443 Pole Vault 14' 9 -Dickie Phillips of North Viii 'iiiii i Shore. .y g it C51 880 Yard Run l:56.4-Doug Varga of Sam iiii 5 issis ..... R ' -J RaYbUm' r...:i j shsr L Kbt Mile Run 4:25.9-Leonard Hilton of Austin. Q73 Mile Relay 3:23.l-Laurence Owens, Robin . 'A .,,ii 1 - .1 ...,, H x. 1VQQ Lowe, Wilburn Johnson, John Carey of I ... J '- i 8 a t Sam Houston' '1' 1 ,h i s Aldine won places in three events. Butch Daniels placed third in pole vaulting, and William Bellinger Jeff Bergeron relaxes for the start of the 440 yard relay. second in the mile run. The 880 yard relay com- posed of Jess Bergeron, Mike Reynolds, dridge, and George Millen placed fourth. Bruce Al- 9 Jetera Queen, Gay Chastain icentert, with princesses Melanie Dement Kleftt Nancy Weldon Bailey goes if-,yo 11-,e 'asf turn, in the p,-eliminar Denton Crishfl reign Over the Jefera Relays- of the 440 yard dash, with Ball High and Mr. car l58 running alongside. 315' . - . -rii J M .,.f . .' ii 'fy 7 ' z : v si i ,,.. , if in ssl