Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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The real test of any band and its members are the contests which it enters and in which they perform to the best of their ability. (The contests that the Crown Point High School regularly entered until this year are: the Northern Indiana School Band and Orchestra Association solo and ensemble contest, for individual competition; and the N. I. S. B. O. V. organization contest for the band as a whole.) This year the band did not enter the organization contest. The district con¬ tests put the talents of many bands from the Calumet area, and the state contest brings to¬ gether talent from all over the state. The par¬ ticipants in both district and state contests are given ratings, indicating their degree of talent. These ratings are: superior, excellent, good, satis¬ factory, and unsatisfactory (The last two ratings are rarely used and their omission is being con¬ sidered) . In the district solo and ensemble contests held at Gary Edison, the following Crown Point stu¬ dents received superior ratings: Joan Vaughn, playing the French horn; Betty Sigler, with a flute solo; Bob Heisterberg on the cornet; Betty Sigler and Claire Phillips playing a flute duet; and Eppler Gruenhagen and Richard Blanchard in a piano duet. The solo and ensemblists also did well at the state contest where Joan Vaughn and the Betty Sigler-Claire Phillips duo again received superior ratings. Excellent rating was also awarded to Betty Sigler for her flute solo, and a good rating was given to Eppler Gruenhagen-Richard Blanchard piano duo. The band’s ratings in the contest bear out the many hours of practice and work put in by musicians and director. Row 1: H. Martin, D. Melcher, J. Meyer, E. Thornberg, B. Hull, M. Fronek, P. Trump, E. Nichols, M. Neiner, C. Williamson, M. Walker, R. McKay, C Jaegar, D. Traves. Row 2: S. Carr, S. Lockhart, M. Dalton, J. Hedlof, P. Palmer, D. Guske, B. Johnson, M. Petrovich. Row 3: B. Hudson, M. Fought, D. Watson, L. Langeland, Ed. Wright, J. Cattrell, C. Smith, L. Blanchard, M. Claussen, D.

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Band The pictures above shows the band in its most popular formation, the forming of the letters C P”. This formation, along with other duties when skillfully executed during the routine, look surprisingly simple and automatic to the viewer in the bleachers, but many hours of practice has made them this way; and almost perfect. The half¬ time entertainment at the football games is com¬ posed of these drills and formations, expertly executed while the band plays appropriate marches. The many varied routines make a beautiful picture on the field but the most spectacular is the night drill in which the band members don lighted hats. The drill is an important part of band curriculum, and the band has made it a perfected part. Row 1: B. Sigler, D. Bennett, T. Bowman, B. Feighner, D. Keighner, D. Klassen, H. Bremer, H. Hill, B. Stephenson, B. Hudson, N. Ruby, S. Teagle, J. Holland, W. Olds, J. Dickerman. Row 2: G. See, J. Rogers, R. Lockhart, B. Heisterberg, C. Koonce, J. Goodman, P. Clevenger, B. Voyles, L. Haniford, B. McKay. Row 3: C. Phillips, Mr. Fredricks, band director; D. Phillips, D. Sorenson, J. Vaughn, D. Dalton, Bill Leach, J. Biggs.

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The cast is taking it easy after the final night of hard work and fun. Ah, Love! Jack, Jerry Johnston, is saying to Angie, Mickey McClenthen, I ' ve thought about it a long time ... I want you to be my girl.” Dented fenders and balloon tires for breakfast,” Mr. Marrow, Bob Hobson, complains to daughter Margaret, Betty Sigler, about other daughter Kitty, Millie Holland. Here we see the cast preparing for the big night. Seventeenth Summer Have you spent a Seventeenth Summer? Well, Angie Marrow, Mickey McClenthen had a wonderful one. She went to her first big dance and met her first boy friend. With two exceptions, her best friends, Jane, Jessica Stronach, and Margie, Barbara Thompson, all would have ended well, but Margie talked too much and Jane stole Angie’s boy friend Jack, Jerry Johnston. Angie’s family also added sparkle to the plot: Mr. and Mrs. Marrow, Bob Hobson and Annie Bowers, Kitty, Millie Holland, Margaret, Betty Sigler, her fiance, Marvin Boles and Lorraine and her hope, Dorothy Glassford and Don Nelson. Abo adding charm to this delightful comedy were Richard Holtz and Jim Wood.