Fairfield High School - Quill Yearbook (Fairfield, IA)

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Pep Persnnified FRONT ROW: R. Lawson, J. Cole, B. McKimmy, S. Krane, D. Timmerman, D. Hill. ROW 2: D. Kemp, K. Davidson, D. Samuelson, A. Johnson, B. Campbell, J. Sheets, ll. Bower. ROW 3: J. Wood, L. Robison, P. Hirschler, J. Cumminpgs, D. Swan. The blare oT TrurnpeTs, roll oT drums, and clang oT cymbals greeTed sTudenTs as They enTered The audiTorium Tor Friday aTTernoon pep assemblies. The snappy music resounded Trom wall To wall as The pupils assembled To cheer The Team on To vicTory. The able musicians in our Pep Band demonsTraTed Their abiliTies by providing The songs needed aT each rally. Members were selecTed Trom The boys who had parTicipaTed in The lvlarching Band. Under The leadership oT KenT Davidson and Denny Kemp, The group provided many specialTies, which had been pref viously rehearsed aT regular Friday morning pracTices. A Tew TooT-Tap- ping songs in The reperToire oT The Pep Band were Bleacher Boogie , When The SainTs So lvlarching ln , and Blue Tail Bounce . They also played our TradiTional T-Tail Alma lVlaTer , LeT's Win This Game , and The school song, all oT which lcepT The Tlame oT school f,piriT alive. As well as providing Their rhyThmic mus- ic aT home pep assemblies, The members Traveled To ouT-oT-Town games, where Their spiriTed songs were heard by boTh The Team and The home-crowd. The Pep Band was a necessiTy aT our annual l-lomecoming celebraTion, where The boys Tormed The snalce's head as The nTudenTs zigzagged Their way To Cen- Tral Park. ATTer The snalce dance, a shorT pep rally was held, where lively music was again pro- vided by The group. The Pep Band molded The school spiriT oT The sTudenTs and The cheerleaders inTo lasTing loyalTy Towards our Team. As we Tiled ouT oT The audie Torium aTTer a Typical pep rally, The sTrains oT The band Tollowed us, reminding us To always exalT The spiriT oT our school. Trombones have jazz session 13

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High Steppers P. Wisecarver, L. Krane, M. Jenks, N. Teeter, K. Galbraith, J. Ulin, C. Luckman, K. Warner, A. Carl, J. Johnson Glillering balons lwirl lhrough nimble Tingers as capable girls perform lhe rudimenls lhey have learned. The balon lwirlers conslilule an ambilious organizalion which marches al' lhe head of The band and adds lo The excellence ol The group. M. Jenks and A. Carl at practice 12 As a resull of diligenl praclice, They are able lo provide enlerlaining duels and variely num- bers during halT-lime periods of home baslcel- ball games. They also serve as ushers al lhe various concerls held during The year. The loalon lwirlers parlicipaled in Marching Band Conlesl held al Qllumwa This Tall. Those who received Division I ralings were: Peggy Wisecarver and Kalhy Galbrailh, balon solos: Angela Carl and lvlargarel Jenlcs, flag swinging solos: and Virginia Langner, bell lyre solo. Jean Johnson re' ce-lived a Division II raling on her balon soo. Each lwirler becomes a drum maiorelle during one loolball game, a rank +o be regarded wilh pride and salislaclion. This honor comes aboul as a resull of rige orous work, which has consisled OT learning and perlecling lhe carlwheels, rolls, and buHerTlies of baron lwirling. The peppy lwirling and marching of lhis high slepping group adds gaiely and color lo 'rhe music life of our school.

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Tune und Rhythm FRONT ROW: J. Hayward, N. Earley, R. Miller. J. Reynolds. ROW 2: S. Howrey, M. S. Horton, L. Huff, E. Boyd, J. Johnson, R. Robinson. ROW 3: J. Cummings D. Timmerman, R. Prince, A. Montggomery, J. Winter, S. Evans, D. Kemp, K. Davidson v 1 C. Church, D. Hornbeck, D. Hill. ROW 4: W. Church, R. Rower, A. Johnson, K. Ray- mond, J. Pogemiller, J. Sheets, B. Campbell, C. Coop, M. Griffin, S. Krane, J. Cum- mings. STANDING: V. Langner, L. Robison, P. Hirschler As The winTer season approaches, The lvlarching Band puTs aside iTs OuTdOOr rOuTines TO malce way Tor The enThusiasTic sTudenTs who will par, TicipaTe in The COncerT Band. AlThOugh The year is very young, The members realize ThaT long hours OT pracTice are a necessiTy in prep- araTiOn Tor TuTure public cOncerTs. ln Order To achieve advancemenT in The arT OT playing, a challenge sysTem was used as in previous years. According TO This sysTem any player in The band may challenge anOTher player in his Own secTiOn. Mr. Lowell selecTs The music which The sTudenTs will be required TO play. A weelc's prac- Tice is granTed TO prepare Tor The presenTaTiOn beTOre The day OT iudgmenT arrives! Each nerf vous sTudenT plays The crosen selecTiOn, Then The One who does The besT is awarded TirsT chair, one OT The highesT honors in band. This sysTem OT challenging encourages a sTudenT's iniTiaTive and individual pracTice. 14 This year progressed guicldy and soon iT was January l9, The daTe seT Tor The TirsT concerT. The snappy sTrains OT The opening march, Gloria , gave an inTrOducTiOn which seT a pace Tor The lvlidfVVinTer COncerT. Special TeaTures OT The concerT were Two Trios Trom The band. The Two groups were The corneT Trio, cOnsisTing OT Denny Kemp, KenT Davidson, and Don Same uelson, who played Bubbling Brass , and The TluTe Trio, composed OT Jean Johnson, Janice Hayward, and Nancy Earley playing l:anTasy Tor FluTes . A march eccenTric enTiTled Gun Smoke changed The mood wiTh The sound eTTecTs OT gun shoTs, galloping horses, and wesT- ern rhyThm. The sOlOisT Tor The aTTernOOn was Janice Cummings, who played a saxophone solo enTiTled Saxene . The mOsT diTTiculT number pe-rTOrmed was a band TranscripTiOn by Bach, Prelude and Fugue in Bb Minor . The lasT number OT The concerT was a TavOriTe march OT