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

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TENNESSEE T J it l l M 3 X 4Q-. CAROLYN B. MCCALLA LAWRENCE P. COQNEY Messick, Memphis MCSFICK, MCmPh15 , , ee Organization Cthis editionj See Organization fthis editionj Tennessee, divided in to East, Middle, and West districts for musical organization Some of the most outstanding are listed here. Some are pictured. A. E. MCCLAIN ...... ......... C entral High Band, Memphis ED HAMILTON A,A-- fSee this editionj A. R. CASSAVANT ........................ City High Band, Chattanooga GILBERT SCARBROUGH ...... ...............,........... B and, Oak Ridge LAWRENCE P. COONEY ............ Messick High Band, Memphis fSee this editionj RALPH HALE A....... ...........,... C .B.C. Band, Memphis TCM HEWGLY .............. ..............................,,.. B and, Columbia 0'DELL WILLIS ............................ Central High Band, Knoxville CAROLYN B. MCCALLA ............ Messick High Chorus, Memphis fSee this editionj W. B. DAY ....,..... MAX WEAVER ......... MARION REITHEL ...... W. F. CROSSWY .....,.,....... RALPH HALE C.B.C. Band, Memphisg outstanding Music Educatorg member A.S.B.D.A.g adjuclicatorg clinician, guest conductor. purposes, has many fine directors. ........Supervisor, Knoxville ............Band, Humboldt fSee this editionj ........Band, Tullahoma ..........Band, Union City ......,...........Band, Paris KENNETH W. LARGE ......... ....... B and, Morristown WILLIAM BONSON ......... ..,,.....,Band, Jackson JANE REEDER Red Bank School Chorus, Chattanooga See Organization, this edition WILLIAM F. CROSSWY Paris High School Band See Organization, this edition

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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.

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DONALD I. MOORE-Baylor University Professor of Music Education and Director of Bandsg composerg cliniciang adjudicatorg guest conductor. Member of and active in many professional organizationsg member of Kappa Kappa Psig nationally known Music Educator. TEXAS ROBERT E. FIELDER-Abilene Consistently highly Superior bandsg standards very high at all timesg member of and active in every professional organization of consequenceg national- ly-known, outstanding Music Educator. PAUL M. BRANOM-Lubbock B.M., East Texas State Collegeg Master of Education, Texas Tech Collegeg con- sistently Superior bands, state and national competitiong member of T.B.A.3 T.M.E.A.g Phi Beta Mu, and many other organizationsg outstanding Music Educator. 48 , -:lx JAMES B. FURRI-I--Galena Park Consistently Superior choirsg highest standards in musical productionsg known over a wide area as an outstanding Music Educator fSee organiza- tion, this editionj. IRVING DREIBRODT-San fBrackenridgeJ Attended High School at B.M., Baylor Universityg M.M., of Texasg awarded Honorary Doctor's gree in Music from Southern 1 Fine Arts, Houston, for great to field of musicg consistently bandsg member of many professional zationsg outstanding Music Educator. DR. JAMES EUGENE S Pasadena Coordinator of Instrumental Musicg trumpet professionally for nearly 50 attended U. S. Army Bandmasters at Chaumont, France and was a of General Pershing's Bandg cliniciang guest conductorg Superior bandsg outstanding Music Cator.