Bement High School - BIM Yearbook (Bement, IL)

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...BAND The band is an organization of fifty-nine high school and grade school students. It has four officers: George Loudenbac-k, president; James Raglan, vice-president; Peggy Moery, secretary-treasurer; and Betty Turney, librarian. The band has three rehearsals a week, which are held the fifth period on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. There are three divisions of the band: the marching band, the basketball band, and the concert band. The marching band supplies music at the football games, the basketball band at the basketball games, and the concert band gives a concert and plays at the band contest. The band goes attired in purple and white uniforms and presents a very striking appearance. The former records of the B. T. H. S. bands have been very impressive. The 1939-40 band gave the annual concert on March 19 and went on to win a first division rating in the District Band concert at Bement on March 23. The instrumentation is as follows: Bb clarinets: Camp. Winzenburger. Vance. Lamb, A. Smith. Turney. S. Fisher, Fairbanks, Landis, Sebens, Kirk. L. Smith. Coffin. Medaris. Kay, M. McPherson. C. Hogue, Loomis; Kb clarinet: M. Lamb; alto clarinet: Raglan; bass clarinet: Postlewait. Cornets: Driskill. Ryan. Roberts. Brown. Shepherd; French horns: Moery. Marker, Scott. B. Funk. 'Patman; Trombones: (I. T oudenback. M. Funk. I . Fisher. A. Lefevcr. Slagle. J. Kcllar. B. Burgess; Oboe: Hill. Bassoon: M. Hogue; Basses: R. Loudenbaek, Clark. Kvans; Tympani: Wilkinson; Drums: Wilkinson. Proctor. McManus. W. Lamb; Bass drum: Kirkland; Accordion: Auth; Flutes: Bruce. W. McPherson. Lincicum. Alto saxophones: Wallace. A. Lefever; Bb tenor saxophone: Stout; Baritones: Fleming. K. Burgess. Fristoe; Soprano saxophones: Barnhart, Lux. Director A. R. Keller Student Director Scotty Wilkinson Page Twenty-three

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MIS. MUSIC... Eugene Wallace, saxophone solo, first division rating. Robert Loudenbark. sousa-phone solo, first division rating. Barbara Camp, piano solo, second division rating. Peggy Moery. French horn solo, first division rating. Helen Bruce, flute solo, first division rating. BOYS’ OCTET A group of boys from the A Capella Choir formed this octet. They helped entertain at the Piatt County Teachers’ meeting in Monticello on December 4, 1939, and at the Farmers’ Institute which was held at the B. T. H. S. Those in the group were Bill Fleming and Bob Scott, first tenors; Lloyd Shepherd and Ralph Clark, second tenors; Scotty Wilkinson and Bud Warner, baritones; Robert Louden-back and Jim Raglan, basses. BOYS’ QUARTET These boys were members of the Boys’ Octet. They helped entertain along with the octet. They also sang for the Monticello Community club. The boys sang numbers such as “The Story of the Tack” and “The Story of the Bee.” Those in the quartet were Bill Fleming, first tenor; Lloyd Shepherd, second tenor; Scotty Wilkinson, baritone ; and Jim Raglan, bass. SOLOS AND ENSEMBLES These people entered the District Solo contest at Monticello on March 9, and received the following ratings: French Horn Quartet: Peggy Moery, Mildred Marker, Bob Scott, Burton Tatman—first division rating. Clarinet Quartet: Barb Camp, Margaret Winzenburger, Emily Vance, Ruth Lamb—first division rating. Cornet Trio: Robt. Driskill, Lois Jean Ryan, Jim Roberts—first division rating. Ann Lefever: saxophone solo—second division rating. Page Twenty-two

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HOME ECONOMICS... First Row: Doty, Fristoe. lx fever. Funk. Wiggins, Cornelius. Schuman. Vaughn. Second Row: R. McCullough, Rowyer. Spelbring. Ray, Auth, Foran, Turney. Tli ii d Row: J. McCullough. M. Redman. Day. R. Redman. H. Funk. Nichols. Smith, and Ponder. Fourth Row: Curfman. Cornel ford. Lamb. Defore. Allison. Fish. Fifth Row: Petersen, Lane, Lux. Rrittenham. Wright, and Phalen. President........................Marjorie Funk Vice-President............. Marybelle Lefever Secretary.......................Alice Fristoe Treasurer......................Luella Wiggins Sponsor. .........Miss Ruth Ponder Motto: Our club must grow and glow and go And we must help to make it so. The Home Economics club began its regular meetings in September with the officers mentioned above presiding. Their meetings were held on the second Wednesday of each month. At each of these meetings, one of the members would lead a discussion on some topic of mutual interest. Initiation, of course, was soon celebrated. The freshmen who were initiated did everything from smelling rotten eggs to doing imitations of circus people. After the ridiculous fun, a formal candlelight service was held, and the girls were told the aims and ideals of the club. At Christmas time the Home Economics girls and the Ag boys had a “Get Together” party, and each group contributed half of the expenses. In came the new year which was Leap Year. Since this comes only once every four years, the girls decided to celebrate in a big way, so they had a Leap Year party to which each girl invited a boy. The evening was spent in playing games and dancing. The girls closed their club season with an April Fools’ party for the mothers. Page Twenty-four