Donovan High School - Donovo Yearbook (Donovan, IL)

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N BAND T' A BAND IS PROBABLY AS IMPORTANT AN 92' im if of M9 ,lA, ORGANIZATION AS THERE IS IN A SCHOOLO Q, Yi! THE DONOVAN BAND IS NOT QUITE TWO YEARS I J JK It OLD BUT IT HAS RECEIVED RECOGNITION AND LOYAL SUPPORT FROM THE SCHOOL AND THE qv 'Q' COMMUNITYO THE BAND HAS HAD A FULL CALENDAR ron THE SCHOOL YEAR. LAST FALL THE BAND FILLED Two MIRCHING ENGAGEMENTS AT POLITIOAL RALLIES, MAROHEO IN COMPETITION WITH I2 OTHER BANDS FROM CENTRAL ILLINOIS AT I. S. N. U. AT NORMAL, ILL., AND PLAYED AT MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES POR VARIOUS GROUPS. FROM THAT IT CAN BE SEEN THAT THE BAND HOPES TO BEOOME A WINNING MARGHING AS WELL AS PLAYING ORGANIZATION. ON Nov. I, I9hO, THE BAND MOTHERS SPONSORED THEIR ANNUAL OYSTER STEw AND CHILI SUPPERO THE BAND PLAYED SEVERAL MARCHES, CHORALS, AND ONE NOVELTY NUMBER. IT wAs WELL ATTENDED AND EVERYONE SEEMED T0 ENJOY HIMSELFO A QUILTED BLACK AND GOLD TAPPETA COMFORTER' WAS RAFPLED Orr AND wON BY ARVIN LINDGRENQ SEVERAL MEMBERS OF THE BAND ATTENOED THE IROQUOIS COUNTY MUSIC FESTIVAL HELD IN MILFORD LAST DECEMBERg EVERY MEMBER or THE BAND PROFITED BY MORE ExPERIENoEO PLAYERS. A BASKETBALL BAND WAS ORGANIZED FOR THE BASKETBALL SEASON T0 PLAY AT THE HOME GAMES, IT WAS HOPED THAT THE FAST MARCHES THAT WERE PLAYED WDULU PEP UP THE CHEERING SECT10N AND THE PLAYERSQ WHEN THE NEW SCHEDULE wAs PUT INTO PRACTICE THE BAND DIRECTOR, MR. SOHARP, DEVISEU AXQIBYSTEM WHEREBY EVERY MEMBER OF THE FIRST BAND WOULEWQETVE A PRIVATE LESSON ONCE A WEEK AND EACH SECTION WDULU PRACTICE TO- LEVEL OF PLAYING OF THE BAND. GETHER ONCE OR TwIcE A WEEK. THIS GREATLiiFMPRovED THE A NEW PHASE or PLAYING wAs DEVELOPEDHATHIS YEARQ THAT or ENSEMBLE PLAYING. EXAMPLES or THAT CAN BE FOUND IN THE CLARINET QUARTETTE, THE BRASS SEXTET AND QUAR' TETTE AND A CLARINET TRIOO THIS TYPE OF PLAYING HAS

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BAND TROMBONES ELDON MARQUIS DONALD ANDERSON GEORGE BARD DONALD FINOH WYONA NOURIE IROL BUSWELL CLARINETS VIVIAN BARO HELEN ELLIOTT VIRGXNIA JOHNSON ROBERT LAIRO LILA WEBSTER ESTELLA LowE FLORENE JOHNSON PERSONNEL DRUMS L C,-, J: EUNICE PATNAUOE xlib RQ JEAN JUDY qgxpg,' A JAMES SOHULTZ gxml?-f XB? HELEN LAFFODN S BETTY HOUGHYON QS X132 TRUMPETS EMIL ESKENGREN GENE METZINGER WILMA ARSENEAU BARITONES DORIS WINROTH BILL JOHNSON LILLIAN ANDERSON BEULAN SUENSON IVAN JOHNSON IRENE BLOOMQUIST IRENE FRYE EVELYN WOOOS BASSES VERA CARLSON SAXOPHONES JUNIOR ARSENEAU ALTO SHIRLEY JOHNSON KATHRYNE GLAD TENOR . .11I Q ROBERT WARD ALTO BETTY FRANCES LUIOA MILLER , WARREN JOHNSON WAYNE LAFOND RICHARD JOHNSON ROBERT JOHNSON VIVIAN CHANGNON O7NEAL ARSENEAU GLEN RlCHARUSON JANICE DARLINB BYRON BARNLUNO WILLIAM FRANCIS GRADE SCHOOL BAND TRUMPETS LOMAR LANEY LEON HOUOHTON HAROLD WOOOS SAXOPHONE MA RJORI E PETERSON CLARINETS SHIRLEY LOBLAW RETA WINROTH DRUMS LAVERNE CHANQNON MARILYN JOHISON

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BEEN POSSIBLE ONLY BECAUSE OF THE IN- CREASED TECHNIQUE OF THE INDIVIDUAL I MEMBERS or THE BAND. ' dgifwk THIS SPRING THE BAND STARTED MARCH- fb I 53 ING AGAIN WITH A NEW FDRMATIDN AND A TSN FEW NEW STUNTS T0 PRACTICE. WITH A ECLYZQI Gooo DEAL or HARD WDRK IFOR INSTANCE XQRSN THE NEW D. H. S. PDRMATIDNJ, THEY - SHOULD MAKE A FINE SHOWING WHERE EVER THEY MARCHC I ON MAY 2, I9I.Il, THE BAND GAVE THEIR SECCND ANNUAL SPRING BAND CONCERT. THE QUALITY or THE NUM- BERS PRESENTED WAS HIGHER THIS YEAR THAN IT WAS LASTQ FDR INSTANCE, THIS YEAR FERDE GROFEIS HON THE TRAILH WAS PRESENTED, A TSCHAIKOWSKY WALTZ AND SEVERAL SDUSA MARCHES WERE PLAYED. A OLNRINCT QUlRTETTE, BRASS QUAR- TETTE,AND A BRASS sExTET WERE SDME SPECIAL NUMBERS. DURING THE SECOND SEMESTER SEVERAL GRADE SCHOOL PUPILS PURCHASED INSTRUMENTS AND MR. SCHARF STARTED A GRADE SCHOOL BAND. THEY PRACTICE TOGETHER THREE TIMES A WEEK IN THE BAND ROOM WITH HIM. THEY SHOULD GREATLY IMPROVE THE BAND WHEN THEY ENTER HIGH SGHDOL BECAUSE or PREVIOUS PLAYING EXPERIENCE IN IGRADE SCHOOL' A THE BAND WISHEE TU ENTEND CDNGRATULATIDNB IND THANKS FOR THE WAY THAT THE BAND MOTHERS CLUB HAS HELP- ED Us IN PURCHASING L7 UNIEDRMS AND SDME HORNS THAT WE NEEDED. WE GREATLY APPRECIATE ALL THKT THEY HAVE DONE FDR US. THE WHOLE-BAND ALSO WISHES T0 THANK THE GENERAL PUBLIC FOR THEIR FINE ATTENDANCE AT OUR PERFDRMANCES. SWING BAND THE LAST or MARCH WE SUCCEEDED IN OUR ATTEMPT T0 ORGANIZE A SWING BAND WHICH CONSISTS or: CLARINET, TWO ALTO sAxS, 'TENOR SAx, THREE TRUMPETS, TWOTTRUUBUBES, BASS, PIANO, AND THE DRUMS PLAYED BY THE ONLY NON-HIGH- SCHOOL, MENBER, WENDELL WILSDN. WE HAVE PLAYED EDR DANCING AT SEVERAL ASSEMBLIES, AND ALSD THE JUNIDR-SENIDR BANQUET. MR. SCHARF HAS DRCHESTRATED SEVERAL POPULAR PIECES.