Emerson High School - Emersonian Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Jd. 2ND AND 3RD CLARINETS Harold Anderson Connie Kennedy Vincent Mrzlack Leonard Barter John Castrinos Philip Turner Anna Mae Chervenak Maudie Johnson DRUMS George Alexander Richard Sunderland Melvin Lierman Robert Williamson TYMPANY George Alexander OBOE ALTO SAXAPHONE Bill Kemp Bernice Muczynkowski TENOR SAXAPHONE Arthur Benjamin FLUTE AND PICCOLO Charles Vargo Tom Brown John Kish Rudy Mohr TROMBONES Bob Burger Ed Steen Bob Shesler Gerry Goldman Kenneth Kirksey Kenneth Moiser Bill Lautenback Stanley Rzepka George Muras ALTO CLARINET Pat Fisch Norman Robinson The Emerson Boys’ Concert Band, led by drum major Charles Vargo, made its first appearance playing for the Golden Tornado football games. Other events included play¬ ing for the Teachers’ Convention on October 27, and playing several patriotic selections on Armistice Day at the Legion Hut. Also, the band performed on January 19, when the R.O.T.C. awards were presented by Mr. Harold Maxwell of the Chicago Tribune, and Lt. Col. Chauncey H. Hayden, Professor of Military Tactics for the Gary Regiment. The annual Boys’ Band Concert was given April 13, in Memorial Auditorium. Under the brilliant and skillful leadership of director Hubert S. Warren the band has won many national, state, and county awards and contests. Page Twenty-three

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Boys ' BOYS’ BAND OFFICERS Seated : Arthur Benjamin. Standing,, left to right-. George Alexander, Ned Miller, Leland Pen- rod, Eugene Griffith, Jack Wilczy- nski, Rudolph Romischer, Marlin Landis. SOLO CORNETS Ned Miller Keith Fink Jack Wilczynski Eugene Griffith 1ST CORNETS Ronald Brown Rudolf Romischer Duane Smeltzer Allan Fink 2ND AND 3RD CORNETS Andrew Galka Tom Josivoff Russell Frame Mitchell Munyas FRENCH HORNS Boris Apostoloff Tom Motto Jack Williams HASSES Ricahrd Sappcnfield Volney Poe Warren Johnson Wilbur Holden BARITONES Stanley Strissell Bob Sheslcr SOLO CLARINETS Leland Penrod Robert Dawson Martin Landis Robert Boone Joe Urban Bill Platis Paul Walker 1ST CLARINETS James Ronchi Helen Fidler Bill Wood John Dematrakis Arthur Roy Don Wallace Donnie Taylor fege Twenty-two

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Girls ' Hand Emerson is one of the few schools in the county having an all girls’ band. Tne Girls’ Band was first organized in 1923 by Mr. Warren with about 20 mem¬ bers, and has continued througth these past 22 years with pride and of course has grown in size. The war has prevented much of the band’s activities, but in postwar days they will be out on top again, making tours and winning contests. The band in its many years of success has played for patients at Hines Hospital, Lake County Tuberculosis Sanitarium, given concerts at the Palace Theatre, the Y.M.C.A., Ross and Portage High Schools, and of course many many other places. The Girls’ Band has participated in various High School contests ranging from city contests through county, sectional, and state to national contests. The band has had the honor of winning the Lake County Band Contest 5 times and has lost once. For a few years they had a twenty minute broadcast concert weekly over the local station WJKS. The officers of the 1944-1945 girls’ band are Adeline Kuchta, President; Angie Cappony, Vice President; Ruth Ann Waitt, Secretary; Norma Rodgerson, Propertv Manager; Betty Babilla, Manager; Pat Fisch, Librarian; Rosemary Felts, Assistant Librar¬ ian; Dolly Burton, Assistant Manager; Dorothy Flanders, Assistant Property Manager. Page Twenty-four