Anamosa High School - Blue Raider (Anamosa, IA)

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CTIVITIES

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Tenth Row: Marcia Goetch, Donna Burke, Iris Porter. Ninth Row: Betty Kula, Luanne Buscher, Cary Yahnke, Clayton Reeves, Charles Met- calf, Judy Reeves. Eighth Row: Nancy Hovet, Willa Oliphant, Don Norton, Sharon Easterly, Ray Handel, Kathryn Miller. Seventh Row: Joyce Hay, Judy Weighels, Dick Watkins, LeRoy Humpal, Glenn Cox, Karen Robertson. Sixth Row: Deloris Calvert, Darlene Raymond, Milton Meeks, Don Michels, Sandra Platner, Carol Musgrove. Fifth Row: Charlene Alyea, .loan Knighi, Mary Holmes, Gary White, Tom Powell, Mar- ilyn Lemrond. Fourth Row: Mary Anne Nickels, Dorothy Buesing, Lois Brickley, Phyllis Purcell, Jan- ice Murfield, Janette Weighels. Third Row: Richard Nickels, Patty Bowen, Betty Hurt, June Hults, Donna First, Ken- neth Hovet. Second Row: LaVeme Roberg, Dean Mardorf, John Lowry, James Rife, Norman Mur- field, Buddy Norton. l Q First Row: Eunine Stimpson. Mary T-aylor, Virginia Hein, Marna Chapman, hvelyn Hurt, Sharla Byers, Judy Reeves. Drum Majorette - Connie Braun. This year, as in the Previous four years. the Anamosa High School concert d marching bands are under the direction of- Mr. Wm. L Stuaak. an The band activities of this year begin with the trip to the Cedar Rapids Band Feggi. val on M 21 1949. A th' ' i ' U . t I8 Band Festival the hastern Iowa Band Queen Ls chosen each Year. Anamosa's candidate was Kathryn McNamara. Anamosa was the first school band in the parade at which thirty-five bands participated, The band participated at the Marching Band Contest at Fairfield, Iowa, on Oct. 15, 1949. The judge gave us a general rating of second place but added that the music wha worth a first. Next on Memorial Day the band marched from the school to the old city park and from there to the Riverside Cemetery with the American Legion and V. F. W. joining us where there was the usual Memorial Day ceremony. On June 9, 1949, the band went to Des Moines for the State Legion Convention at the invitation of the Anamosa Legion. The band led the parade as the official band of the American Legion District No. 2. At all of our home football games the band played and at most of them put on a full half-time show. Two of these were accompanied by the girl's Pep Club and two were put on with the opponent's school band. The band played at one out of town game at Wiaquoketa when we put on the show with Mauuoketa's band. One other out of town trip, to Tipton, was conceled because of rain and dangerous weather conditions. On Homecoming. October 7, 1949. the band lcd the annual parade of floats and ini- tiated fresmen. The Santa Claus Parade with Miss Christmas and Miss New Year. floats and an entertainment act afterwards was led also by the band. The Marching Band was of especial notise this year as it contained fifty-six pieces.