Cordell High School - Blue Devil Yearbook (Cordell, OK)

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EVERETT MAXWELL Band Director (ees The band and their instructor, Everett Maxwell, began practicing eight weeks before the school term. They elected as their drum major, Sybil Porter, and they also elected three twirlers, Mancy Loftiss, Nita Jean Sipes, and Floita Stafford. Later in the year three more were added, Alice Bishop, Jimmie Phylis Lyons, and Zola Mae Hagin. The band played at several football and basketball games. They also took part in the armistice day program. They took part in the crowning of the Harvest Queen and sev- eral other occasions of that kind. Four of the members were elected to help the director and drum major to set rules for the band; they were: Vetta Jean Taylor, Pattie Jean Boothe, Jerry Williams, and Don Symcox. During the second semester the band received new trousers to their uniforms and sev- eral complete new uniforms. March 15 the band entered a preliminary contest at Waurika in which they won II Division. They also will enter a band clinic at Anadarko, a district contest at Weatherford, and if they place high enough there they will enter the state contest at Stillwater.

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GLEE CLUB ek Sahn ae The High School Glee Club, under the direction of Mrs. Orval P. Morrison, has had a very successful year. A program called the “Gypsy Campfire” was presented at the High School Hallowe'en Carnival. The stage was arranged as a forest scene with trees, logs, and a campfire. The girls’ costumes were bright colored ballet length skirts, white, long sleeved blouses, black boleros and bright head bands. The boys wore black boleros, dark trousers. and bright waist sashes. A tenor solo, “The Gypsy,” was sung by Bill Buie and the trio composed of Frankie.Flaming, Beth Goeringer, and Darline Anderson sang “The Wraggle Taggle Gyp- sies, O!” A Christmas cantata was presented on the chapel program. On January 31, the glee club went to the annual high school mass chorus at Still- water where they were directed by Noble Cain, noted composer and director. On March 10 the glee club sang at the monthly Superintendents’ and Principals’ Meet- ing. .Two numbers by the glee club as a whole were presented at this time. They were “Thanks Be To God,” and “Good-night; Good-night, Beloved.” The quartet, composed of Gloria Pugh, Donna Faye Carnes, Janelle Akers, and Helen Schmidt, sang “March Winds.” In the spring, the glee club made a trip to’ the surrounding schools—Sentinel, Port, Foss and Burns Flat. The glee club, girls’ trio and several solos entered the contest at Weatherford. The glee club participated in the Washita County Music Festival where a unit of class- ical songs were presented.

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¥ di SSH Re nan ortigge : biasbiie bd ae oy aa em fons First Row: Sybil Porter, drum major; Don Symcox, Vetta Jean Tayor, Jerry Williams, Wendell Bose, Joe Popps, Mary Lee Broad- books, Gerald Howard, Anna Maude Adams, Marjorie Anderson, Ronald Howard, Janell Akers, Anna Dorney, Charles. Bose, Anna Mae Wyatt, Jimmy Goodfellow, Annabell Snell, Pattie Boothe, Mr. Maxwell, Director. Second Row: Victoria Guest, aJne Street, Virginia Lambert, Vera Wyatt, Clara Vickers, Gretchen Wesner, Barbara Bowman, Johnnie B. Penner, Sue Green, Darrel Keeter, Norma Jean Newton, Arnold Snell, Phil Symcox, Dwayne Hagin, Robert Green, Cecil Cothrum. Third Row: Gary Akers, Wanda Watson, Mary Hann, Betty Hann, Rowena Fritzler, Bobby Browly, Herbert Dobbs, Bobby Douglas, Tommy Lane, Gary Holt, Shan Green, Barbara Howard, Phillip Williams. Fourth Row: Bobby Baldwin, Lolita Stout, Jerry Watson, Barbara Bush, Treva Lou Williams, G. B. Hosler, Wayne Hagin, Finis Healy, Boice Green, Coy Propps, La Donna Crimm, George Greegg, Donald Cain. Fifth Row: Wanda Harden, Nancy Loftiss, Jimmie Lyons, Floito Stafford, Zola Mae Hagin, Nita Jean Sipes, Alice Bishop, Mary Cooper. EVERETT MAXWELL Band Director