First Chair of America - National Yearbook (Greenwood, MS)

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SOUTH CAROLINA l 51 I A- .Y 5 v 'x 'i AMES D PRITCHARD-Sumter WILLIAM TAYLOR SLAUGHTER-Aiken A Newberry College 19413 B.S., 1948 Organist, pianist, clarinetist and French horn MS 1949 Jullllflrfl School of Ml1SiCL plnyerg' B.M.Ed., West Chester State Teachers kshire Music Center Lenox. Mass.: First Collegeg M.M.Ed., Florida State Universityg e President SCME.A.g member Phi Indian Lullaby recorded by University of Wis- ta Mu and American School Band and consin Band is among his compositionsg consist- chestra Directors Associationg Conductor ently Superior bandg outstanding Music Educator. 5 S C All State High School Band in cert for S CII A Director, Sumter Mu- ipal Band of Trinity Methodist Church oir Sumter s Young Man of the Year, 54 outstanding Music Educator. HARRISON W. ELLIOTT Born February -1, 1912, a son of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Elliott. Graduate of the University of Kentucky with a post-graduate work at the Uni- versity of Miami, Florida. Has taught in Kentucky, Ohio, and South Carolina and now directs the famed Band of Gold flnman-Landrum, S. C., High Schoolsl. This band has marched in the Gator Bowl, The Shrine Bowl, The Cherry Blossom Festival, The Miss America Pageant, and in many other parades and fetes in the Carolinas. Cited with a plaque by the South Carolina Music Educators' Association for founding The South Carolina Musician, the Associations official publication, and serving as editor of it for 8 years. Elliott also was co-founder of the District Festival and District Band Clinic move- ments in South Carolina. He was elected Chairman of the Eastern and Western District Festival areas KS. CJ and has served on many committees, including the All-State Clinic Band. Elliott is one of the three South Carolinians who are members of the American School Band Directors' Association. Elliott is South Carolina Editor for Meyer's Band News and articles by him have appeared in The School Musician, Symphony, and Music Educators' journal. He is founder and director of the Great Southeastern Baton Twirling Clinic, one of the nation's largest, held each year the second week in june at Inman, S. C. Outstanding Music Educator, who has done much for South Carolina.

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RHODE ISLAND l DR. PAUL E. WIGGIN-Warwickg Clarinetistg Educator: Music Camp Directorg Doctor of Musical Arts, Boston University and University of Montrealg 59 years in Public School Music, Festival Band Director at International Fes- tival, Montreal, Canada, New England Music Festival, Vermont All-State Festival, County and District Festivals in Connecticut, New York, New jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. . Q, X DR. STEPHEN B. FARNUM-East Providenceg Graduate of Ernest Williams School in Brooklyn, N. Y.g M.B., Boston Universityg Doctor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Author of Music Tests for Both Secondary Schools and Colleges g Rhythm and Theory Method for Beginning Band Instrumentsug Performance Scale for Strings g Watkins-Farnum Performance Scale for All Band Instruments g Farnum Cornet Method g Director of East Providence Symphonic Band for 23 years. Clinician, adjudicatorg guest conductorg outstanding Music Educator. SOUTH CAROLINA Besides these directors whose pictures appear here, these are producing Superior organizations and contributing much to the South Carolina program: PAT LEONARD ......... ROBERT SIMMONS ..... .........,Charleston T. R. THORNLEY ........West Columbia ......,Spartanburg HEYWOOD MOORE ................COIumbia South Carolina Music Educators' Association officials are: President ..........,...,.........., ........ R OBERT L. VAN DOREN Vocal .................,,............... .. ....... MR. E. DAVIS POWERS, JR- First Vice President ....... ........,.............. M RS. E. T. GAVIN College ...................................-.. -...-.---..... M R- HUGH MCGARITY Second Vice President r........ ........ M Rs. ELIZABETH COGBURN Dietfiet Festival Cheifmeftf . Secretary-Treasurer ............................,....... MR. MILTON MOORE Eastern -----------------'----A----- --'----- '--'- '- - L ' D' ATKTNS Editor South caroline Musician ............ Miss JUANITA HITT Western ----- ---- --- J UANITA HITT Membership Chairman ....,................... MR. EDWARD T. GAVIN Settthefft ---e--- e----e-----t--------'- 0 'NEAL CLAMP Division Presidents: Northern ........ ...v........,..........----- J Central ...... .......... M RS. THOMAS P. EVANS Band ............................. Piano ........ LEONARD WILLIAM C. DERRICK WILLIAM H. BASDEN-Manning College at East Carolinag Captain in Infantry, World War Ilg consistently Superior bandsg outstanding Music Educator. V LAVERNE J. HAHN-Columbia l Drehr High Schoolg consistently Superior play- ing bandsg outstanding Music Educator.

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ARDEEN J. FOSS-Sioux Falls B.A., Sioux Falls College, M.M., University of South Dakota, member of American Bandmasters' Association and American School Band Directors Association, State Chairman of A.S.B.D.A., Past President of South Dakota Bandmasters Association, First Honorary Award of Kappa Kappa Psi of South Dakota, member of Phi Delta Kappa, Director of Instrumental Music, Sioux Falls Public Schools, Director of Washington High School Band and Orches- tra, Director of El Riad Oriental Band, Assistant Director of El Riad Shrine Band and Sioux Falls Municipal Band, Commu- nications Officer, U. S. Navy, World War II, outstanding nationally-known Music Educator. SOUTH DAKOTA -- - -f- -----f -ff-e.v-fav?- 5 .'? CARLTON A. CHAFFEE-Vermillion Associate Professor of Music Education at State University of South Dakota, B.S., Mansfield State Teachers College, M.A., New York University, graduate study, Pennsylvania State University, Chicago Musical College, and New York Univer- sity, taught in public schools of Pennsylvania 1935-45, Director of Bands and Head of Music Education at Simpson College, Iowa, 1945-53, head of Music Education, University of South Dakota since 1953, outstanding Music Educator. J 1 l 32 1 RAY T. DeVILBISS-Vermillion Director of Bands and Associate Profess at University of South Dakota, gradua University of Missouri, Master's degra- University of Missouri, 1946, further stu at Drake University, Des Moines, tau in public schools of Iowa and Misso Qorchestra and bandj. Conductor of fe vals, clinics, and adjudicator in the states Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, South Dako and Nebraska, professional trumpet pla for the past 20 years in concert ban symphony orchestra, and dance bands, o standing Music Educator. In addition to those pictured here, very fine musical organizations are conducted by PAUL CHRISTENSEN, Huron, WILLARD FEJFAR, Vermillion, RONALD WHALEN, Salem, JAMES BOISE, Dell Rapids, WAYNE ELLSWORTH, Montrose, OSCAR LOE, Scotland, FRANCIS BENSON, Sturgis, FRED JOHNSON, Yankton, ELDON SAMP, Flandreau, BILL IRELAND, Madison, and ARNE B. LARSON, Brookings. PAUL CHRISTENSEN-Huron Director of Huron High School Bands, and Instrumental Music Supervisor, Director of Huron Municipal Band, member of A.B.A. and A.S.B.D.A., a former member of The Sousa Band, a member of The Sousa Band Fraternal Society, member of S.D.E.A., N.E.A., S.D.B.A., and the First All-American Bandmasters' Band, Chairman, S. D. All-State Band, 1952-58, Superintendent of State Fair Bands, awarded: Outstanding High School Band Director of South Dakota of 1957 by Kappa Kappa Psi at University of South Dakota, member of Kiwanis Club. HAROLD HAMAKER-Mitchell Bachelor of Science, South Dakota State College, Master of Arts, South Dakota University, additional study, Univer- sity of Minnesota and Northwestern University, Music Director in the Mitchell School System with a staff of nine music teachers, taught seventeen years in South Dakota Schools, member of Mitchell Municipal Band and Com- munity Symphony, President of South Dakota Music Edu- cators' Association.