Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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J. O. Hawkins Concert Band If you had looked in on the band of last year, you would have seen a group of disappointed kids. Under the direction of J. O. Hawkins, they had won first at the state contest and were told that it would be impossible to go on to the national. But this year you should see them! They are all happy again and a little vain because they have brand new uniforms, purple and gold with all the trimmings. This year for the first time in history the Casey high band had two drum majorettes. The band is a help to our town as it leads the parades, giving them more color and zip. It olayed and marched at our football games and even journeyed to Marshall and Charleston to march. At the half of the game in Charleston, it paraded with twelve other bands. During the six sessions of the annual Eastern Illinois basketball tournament the Casey band was featured as the tournament band, playing marches, popular tunes, and specialty numbers, which added greatly to the color. There are fifty-eight members. They practice the eighth period. At that time they practice for contests, concerts, specialty numbers, and marching. The members of the Band are: Ralph Sharp, Charles Hayes, Maxine Perisho, Betty Yocum, Iwana Bartholmew, Connie Welch. Jim Stifol. Jim Goble. Virginia Bowman, Doris Williams, Irma Fitch. Vivian Hall, Jim Baker, Ginger Vail, John Mam. Peggy Moody. Nina Smith, Anna Czerwonka. Betty Kite, Pearl Shores, Virginia Weaver, Phyllis Wright, Eleanor Squier, Virginia Youngman, Evelyn Dixon, Eleanor Mumford, l.aDonna Fitch. Wilma Czerwonka, Clarence Chapman. Harold Finney, Leslie Black. Maurice McDaniel. Bill Weaver, Jim Yocum, Victor Huffman, Theda Robbins, Bill Watson, Rosalie Brown, Rose Mary Ewing, Jim Christian, Ruth Tyhurst, Claire Thiel. Bob Greeson, Dana Lee Redman, Mary Fasig, Don Hutton. Gordon Martin, Bob Mills. Ralph Brooke, llene Estes, Norma Collins, Joan Elder, Ennis Frazier, Freda Bower, W’anda Garner.

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Choruses of ’41 The Casey High School choir has a reputation that each year is difficult to maintain because it has achieved the highest possible recognition in winning district, state, and national honors. The fact that the three music groups, the choir, the boys' glee club, and the girls' glee club were the only choruses in the United States from one school to win at the same time first division in a national contest not only brings honor to our music department and to the high school but also to our whole community as well. The first important appearance of the high school choir this year was December 22, 1940, when a vesper concert was given at the Methodist Church to a capacity audience. The annual spring concert was given near the close of school. Our choir consists of approximately forty-eight voices, which is really three organizations in one. From these groups come the ensembles and soloists who take part in the spring contests. There were three ensembles and seven soloists this year. About the middle of January the choir ordered several new pieces and began working for the national contest. Just before our Christmas vacation the choir gave a few of their concert numbers for the assembly. Among them was the chorus from the Messiah. This is a very difficult number and is accomplished only after much steady and hard practice. Mr. Hawkins has arranged his classes this year in the fifth and eighth periods. He now can hold the pupils till he's finished. The favorite pieces of the choir members are How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place , which they sang last year at the national contest and the Hallelujah Chorus . 21

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Thi? question is a vital one! Debate Let us first turn our spotlight on last year's debate team. They upheld the tradition that has been Casey's in debate by winning the E. I. League tournament at Newton and the Charleston Invitational. In the State District contest this team placed second. The members of the 1939-40 team were: Affirmative—Bill Victor and Virginia Moore; Negative—Todd Fouty and Rosemary Weigel. Bill Victor was the only member of last year's team back on the squad. While the loss of three outstanding debators of last year was felt, new recruits, namely: Virginia Youngman, Dewey Moore, and Jim Wood, quickly filled the gap. This inexperienced team, debating upon a broad question—Resolved: That the powers of the Federal government should be increased —met with phenomenal success when they won the Gerstmeyer Tech Invitational tournament, in which twenty-four teams from Indiana and Illinois competed. Further success was theirs when they won another invitational tournament held at Indiana State Teachers' College with eighteen teams participating. At a contest in Sparta, Illinois, on March 8, the negative team tied for first place. Harlan Lance 23