Cobre High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Bayard, NM)

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Band Displays A Time For IVIusic By Performing Mr. Clarence Romero directed the red and white band through another successful year at Cobre High School. The band consisted of 50 members. As a money making project, they sold booster stickers. This money was used to finance transportdtion for band trips and for a fund for uniforms. Members of the band who performed in parades and at football games, also auditioned in Las Cruces for All-State and for various positions with Pep band and Stage band. Among the people who tried out for All-State were, Elsie Parker, Danny Bleak, Robert Gonzales, and Mike Garza. During the month of April, Stage band held a cake walk at the Bayard Shopping Center. The money that they raised helped pay for their expenses while playing for the concert in Animas, where they demonstrated their abilities to help Animas in deciding whether to start their own band. Follow- ing the Animas concert Cobre band also attended a music festival in Tucson where they played at the University of Arizona. The band adds a touch of spirit at a Deming Football game. Members of the Cobre High bond are. Front Row: Betty Garcia, Skip Walker, Norma Garcia, Wendy Brice, Georgelen Dodson, Martha Rivera, Judy Jackson, Janet Steele, and Ann Hornbaker. Second Row: Silvia Lopez, Barbara Nunez, Gloria Montoya, Yolanda Garcia, Estefanie Vigil, Elsie Parker, Virginia Boca, Twono Sparks, Richard Cooke, Armando Torres, Pete Nonez, Victor Cabrera, David Lara and Robert Gonzales. Third Row: David Crumm, Helen Archuleta, Emily Level, Frank Legarda, Joe Martinez, Marty Ochoa, Danny Bleak, Sammy Cabrera, Clyde Vanworth, David Jaramillo, Rosemary M. Grijalva, David Lawrence, Carlos Benavidez, Salvador Iturralde, Mary Ann Garcia, Ernest Flores, Evangeline Holguin, Andy Guadiana and David McNaughton. Back Row: Delia Lopez, Gilbert Guadiana, Robert Lucero, Pete Torrez, Mike Garza, Edward Hornbaker, and Mr. Clarence Romero, director of the Cobre High band.

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stage First Shakespearian Play Thespian Members: Front Row: Brandon Ahrens, Liz Stewart, Skip Walker, Blanche Brindley, Robert Quintana, Gary Veeder, Bobby Medina. Back Row: Ine Trujillo, Emily Montoya, Wendy Brice, Martin Porter, Mr. Haggerton. Mr. Haggerton directs Robert and Evangeline for Romeo ond Juliet. Attending the Masquer ' s first masquerade party as a sorceress ond as Lord Byron ore Ruth Meredith and Robert Quintona.

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At An Out-Of-Town Football Held In Deming For the third consecutive year Elsie Parker was chosen to partici- pate in All-State activities. This year her audition in Albuquerque won her the first chair position in the All-State symphonic band. At Cobre she is first chair alto clarinetist, and has been a member of Pep band for three years. Danny Bleak, in his Pep Band uniform, tried out for All Stote bond but was not chosen. Danny ploys the lead trumpet in the Cobre band, the Cobre Stage bond, and the Cobre Pep bond. Mike Garza, a junior at Cobre auditioned for the All-State but also was not chosen. Mike held the first position on tenor sax in the Cobre band, Cobre Stage band, and Cobre Pep band. Robert Gonzales plays the tenor soxophone. He olso auditioned (or All-Stote but wos also not chosen. He held the first choir position in the Cobre band. Stage bond and Pep bond.