Edison High School - Reflector Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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nam First row: Messas, McDermott, Satmury, Erickson, Gough, Frank, . Bowen, Kern, L. Bowens Second row: RX. Vaughn, Blakeborough, Pappas, Derian, Elrod, Bock, M. Vaughn, Clifford, Walzek, Boylen. Third row: Mahaffey, D.Srickson, Nicoletto, Georgeiff, Anderson, M. Squibb, Deller, Hanson, Halfacre, Miss Stevens, sponsor. SESS ip 4 First row: Mary Jenci, Ramona Vaughn, Carmen Messas, Serah Halfacre, Georginia Clifford. Second row: Miss Feather, Patricie McCoy, Dorothy, Erickson, Betty Elrod, Bonnie Bock, Joan Frank, Merceline Willis, Elaine Gorney, Sally gpees. Third row: Dorothy Nicoletto, Rosemery Erickson, Doris Mahaffey, Phyllis Pinnell, Mary Vaughn.

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It has often been said that a good band does something very special for a community. Put that bend in uniform end the effect is something colossal!! Edison School experienced something very setisfactorily colossal Friday evening, May 5, when its band, completely am beautifully bedecked in brend new green and white uniforms, presented its Fourth Annual Concert. There was no doubt in anyone's mim thet the climax of the band's four years had been reached. It all sterted like this. Lest October, after a thorough investigetion of the matter, Miss Scheddell discovered thst in spite of war conditions, uni- forms for school bands were still available. Conferences were held with a band parents' group and Mr. C. £. Swingley. Determination to see it through was the keynote of all, though the goal was $2500. The Edison Band Boosters' Association was formed, Rev. P. H. Halvorsen, minister of the Brunswick Baptist C hurch, having been elected president. Mrs. C. E. Talmadge was selected as secretery and Miss Scheddell as treasurer. The main function of this group was to encoursge donstions to the fund through the promotion of the Honorery Membership idea. A life-time Honorary Membership to the bend wus granted with a donation of one dollar or more. Many people responded and contributions started coming in. The Brunswick Community Club offered not only a generous amount from its treasury but also their very velusble services. The P.T.A.of Edison sponsored a carnival which netted close to a fifth of the entire goal. The entire school got behind and pushed. The Hi-Y, the Girls’ Reserve, various classes snd clubs all scraped together whet they could and gave. Many civic-minded mrchants added their contributions to the growing fund. Even other school bands in town helped. By the end of the school year all the uniforms were paid for. There were purchased sixty-five uniforms, three drum major uniforms, one director's uniform, one American flag, one school flag, and two guns to furnish a color guard to the flags. In addition, approximately four hundred dollars wes reised for the purchase of two new instruments, an alto clarinet end a bass clerinet. a ae) eee ee ee ee ee ee

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om . = Se a — Oe First row: Bliss, Lax, Ceotto, Johnson. Second row: Cuninghem, Erickson, MeDermott, Satmary, Derien, Frank, Messey, Deller, McCoy, Spees, Thira row: Emory, Porter, Gut, Richards, Pappas, Messes, Crider, Matz, Elrod, Curtis, Bock, Day. Fourth row: Adams, Halfacre, Pinnell, Maheffey, Erickson, D. Erickson, Nicoletto, Berry, B,. Squibb, Willis, Clifford, Henson, Fisher.