Eastern Oregon University - Mountaineer Yearbook (La Grande, OR)

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Music Educators National Conference MENC members are sitting: Louis Lanyon, advisorg Kay Whittig, presidentg BariCo1ombari, S6CI6taI.'y. Standing Al Morgan Helen Eakm Andy Gilbert. The Music Educators National Con- ference club is a student organization for future music educators. The seven- teen members have meetings twice a term and discuss musical experiences they have had at EOC and at other schools. Each year the EOC chapter may send representatives to the Na- tional convention which is held every two years. The year that National meets, state associations also have a convention. There is also a convention held during March on the years that Na- tional and state do not meet. Members who could not be present for pictures were: Mervin Cutright, Greg Davis, Betty Weidert, Laura Woodruff, Lillian Mitzimberg, Mary Jean Domey, Gary Van Beek, Berna- dette Baehr, Nate DeRosso, Terry Baird, Jewel Clark, Sam Munoff, and J an Saunders.

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9 I adm ..,, 15' :ff up . . k nl ' Y., w i V LV' , E' Louis Lanyon directed EOC's band in a most fruitful year of sight-reading and concert performances. The band played some of the most exciting new music written for the ever increasing popularity of the concert band. Con- certs were of the usual variety, present- ing soloists on instruments including flute, trumpet, and guitar. Vocalists were also among the featured soloists of this season, and music from all ages was presented at each performance. The stage band, a new innovation to EOC in the last five years, was able, for the first time, to present its own concert of material from the catalogues of contemporary stage band literature. It also appeared in its double role as pep band at all the home basketball games. This year's instrumental de- partment also saw the advent of small select ensembles, including a French horn quartet, a brass ensemble, and The Neighborhood, a new jazz band on campus. 109