C E Byrd High School - Gusher Yearbook (Shreveport, LA)

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ALTO SAXOPHONES—Pat Peterson, Winona Lightfoot, and Marion Shaner. TENOR SAXOPHONE—Brady Arm- strong. BARITONE SAXOPHONES—Judy Morgan, and Jerry Diebner. CORNETS—Don Baker, Maurice Hanna, Bobby Childers, Bill Corrington, Keamey Duerson, Herbert Loyd, Charles Moore, Harold Thom. FRENCH HORNS—Betty Berry, JoAnn Palmer, Jack Ilgenfritz. TROMBONES—Billy Ray Gay, Tom- my Turnage, Clayton Dupree, David Gaignard. BARITONES—Gail Behicke, Donald Martin, Clyde Bowers. BASSES—Frank Jones, Larry Loyd, Donald Hebert, Michael Torrans. TYMPANI—Kamal Kathey. DRUMS—Kamal Kathey, Dale Porter, Tommy Cumella. STRING BASS—Lanelle Andrews. Drum major Maurice Hanna flanked by twirlers. Herbert Loyd and Kearney Duerson. King Jonnard Bjorklund and Queen Madelyn Stephenson of the 1950-51 band.

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FLUTES—Jonnard Bjorklund, Made- lyn Stephenson, Ella Chandler, Danny Corbin. OBOE—Jimmie Huddleston. BASSOONS—Myrl Bjorklund, Fred Westergaard. CLARINETS—Jo Ann Willis, Billie McCIure, Janice Rich, Glenn Tomp- son, Nelwyn Reynolds, Odell Roshton, Patsy Boggs, Betty Sue Hand, Bobby Kurtz, Elaine Vickrey, Jim Carroll. ALTO CLARINETS—Colleen Mont- gomery and Marjorie Rachal. BASS CLARIN ETS—Kenneth Finch and Robert Dickinson. BYRD HIGH BAND In keeping with the noble tradition establishcd by members of the In- strumental department during the last decade, groups this year have made appearances for radio broadcasts, assemblies, weekly military reviews, community activities, Holiday in Dixie, as well as performing elaborate half time shows for football games, including the Annual High School Band Day in the LSU stadium, and preparing for the annual winter and spring concerts. Our department welcomes all students who wish to begin or continue their musical training. Classes are offered for beginners on both band and orchestral instruments, for intermediate students in both band and string sections, in addition to the Military, Marching and Concert bands. This year chamber music groups have formed an integral part of our music activities. Each student has becn a member of one or more ensem- bles, many of which have performed before various school and civic func- tions. Aims of the department are to acquaint the music student with the finest in music literature performed to the best of his ability, to develop a sensitive appreciation and enjoyment of music as an art, to instill in him a sense of self pride and responsibility, all of which contributes to the de- velopment of a better citizen, regardless of the profession he may choose after leaving high school. Tuenty-four

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First row: Mary Whitfield, Mary Alford, Loralee Craft, Doris Ann Hawley, Jo Nell Parker, Marilyn French, Marjorie Noble, Betty Register, Diane Lawton, Martha Martin, Emily Sue Laurent, Delores Coltharp. Second row: Mary Louise Stevens, Barbara Hay, Lillian Buckelew, Twyla Clark, Bobbie Somner, Patsy Freeman, Margaret Hardwick, Willie Drew Dancy, Martha Cox, Lola Mae Tharpe, Patsy Gonzales, Rose Mary Galleghy, Silvia Lively. Third row: Carol Covington, Patsy Rowland, Carol Vincent, Connie Tomlinson, Mary Alice McCrary, Dianne Webb, Katey Vickers, Loy Taylor, Melvin Simmons, Jimmy Oliver, Merle Kilgore, Robert Ricord. Fourth row: John HoIIifield, Jack Daniels, Hirsh Goldberg, Harry Horton, Jimmy Ratcliff, Frank Price, Alan Landridge, Earle Bullock, Ronald Brown, Charles Thomas, Chester Ellis. A CAPPELLA CHOIR In any school the number of participants taking part in the vocal program has a great deal to do with the success or failure of that program. If there are only a few to partici- pate, the musically talented have to be mixed with the untalented, those that learn rapidly mixed with those that learn slowly, and those with a great deal of interest mixed with those of lesser interest. This does not make for a good choir nor for a healthy vocal pro- gram and is the reason for our ever expanding vocal program here at Byrd. We wish not only to present a great deal of music to a great many students, but a little music to a great many students. Our program this year has been the largest in the history of Byrd High School and has included an A and B choir, a Girls’ Glee Club, a Boys’ Glee Club, an Ensemble, an Operetta, an Appreciation class, and a Theory Class. T tventy-six