Alexander Park High School - The National Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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THE 1945 Seated; Dorothy Coston, piano; Sammy Warriner, Ramona Estep, Annette Tanner, Lois Hall, lelvin Hester, clarinets; John Guthrie, saxophone Standing: ' iolet McXeelej-, snare drum; Ralph Xewsome, bass drum; Miss Gemmell, Director; Larry Stephenson, Frances Tanner, Eddie Boomhower, Kenneth Hail, trumpets; Gene Costner, ' eaver Tanner, trombones ; Ralph McAlexander, bass ; Arley Aune, baritone BAND The Alexander Park High School Band is made up of twenty-four students. Two of these have been added recently after the school purchased two more new instruments, an E. flat and a baritone horn. Our band has demonstrated excellent school spirit by playing for the pep rallies and it attended almost without exception the home football games and even a few of the games played elsewhere- The band is making rapid progress as an organization of note on our campus. We have planned several socials during the )-ear.

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NATIONAL Seated: Virginia Helton, Ray Wilder, Maxine Collins, Howard Sparks, Mary Lou Jackson, Gene Clopton Standing: Betty Gunsauley, Elizabeth Fail, Levene Midgett, Marie Hamm, Ruby Ingram, Helen Bailey, Mrs. Ostenkamp DISTRIBUTORS CLUB FIRST SEMESTER MAXINE COLLINS President RAY WILDER Vice-President MARY LOU JACKSON. ..SV Te (7n-rrea,r. VIRGINIA HILTON Retiorter MRS. MARIE R. OSTENKAMP. SECOND SEMESTER H O W A R I ) SPARKS Presiden t MARIE HAMM Vice-President iMAXINE COLLINS Secretary-Treas. GENE CLOPTON Publicity Director IRGINLA HILTON Ref ' orter Something new has been added! It’s the Distributors Club, students of Alexander Park’s first class in Retail Training, and Distributive Education. DC members are honored seniors, and possible future tycoons in the world of busi- ness. Distributors Club provided a means of promoting friendship and cooperation among the students, faculty and retail institutions. Because it is a member of Distributors Clubs of Virginia, it forms a link in the chain of clubs and sends a delegate to the State Convention each year. Social activities combine with con- structive work to make the club an asset to the department and the school. DC members play as hard as they work — believe in that old maxim about all work and no play making a dull boy.

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NATIONAL Seated: Jean Deal, }vliss Gemmell (Director), Doris Sullivan, Chari tte Willis, Marianne Beck, Colene Pope Standing, 1st Row: Janye Burgess, Jcanclle, Irene Spivey, Shirley Willis, Doris Cook, Cornelia Brown, Marie Walsh, Curt Phelps, Nancy Drum, Nadine Carter, Helen Bailey, Ruhy HyPon Second Row: Peggy Queen, Peggy Brown, Annie Frazier, Emma Bindamine, Geraldine Dameron, Joyce Campbell. Violet Tucker. Norma Burgess, Catherine Dodd GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB The Girls Glee Club is made up of a group of approximately thirty girls, under the direction of the school’s talented music instructor. Miss Anne Gemmell. They have as concert dress, navy blue skirts and white sweaters with lyric emblems. The girls formed the chorus of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operetta “H.M.S. Thnafore” which was presented March 28. Also they entertained at the Naval Hospital in Park View where they were accorded quite a welcome. The members of the club are a very congenial group of girls and they have lots of fun. They plan to add many new voices to their club next year and also hope to have a boys’ club as well as a mixed group.