Forest Park High School - Tracer Yearbook (Ferdinand, IN)

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4. The field commanders are Dianne Durcholz, Shannon Andry and Jenny Boeglin. 5. The tubas warm-up before a performance. 6. The band marches off the field. 9 —« w m-rnmmmmm e champs again work and know-how, but let’s add one more: commitment to excellence. How long can it last? Forever!! Like the character Rocky Balboa, the Marching Rangers keep coming back stronger each year to surpass what seem to be insurmountable odds. And the reason for that is the support we are given by all our boosters. In the heat of competition we take for granted that uniforms will be cleaned and money will be raised to make it all possible to see that we are given the best shot at the title. If there is a job to be done, then it deserves to be done right. Keeping this in mind, how can the Forest Park Marching Rangers settle for second best? Spirit, Unity, Team-work and Achievement spell out a commitment to excellence-SUTA. Grady Emmert

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1. The band officers are Diane Fischer, Beth Johanneman, Lisa Luebbehusen and, not pictured, Andy Gerber. 2. Gina Blessinger shows her pride. 3. The 1985-86 band members. 8 Rangers are staU It looks like every other high school band room in America, the Forest Park High School band room. Too many chairs and pieces of percussion equipment squeezed into too little space. Hundreds of trophies sit on a high shelf that runs around the room: your average band room. But the Forest Park High School band is anything but “average.” Among those trophies are three Class D state cham- pionship titles and many memories of how they were achieved. It was no easy street that Gene Keusch walked into when he accepted the Forest Park band director position. He had a hand full of students to work with, but under his direction the band grew to an average size of one hundred thirty members. The size of the band programs grew as a direct result of the incredible amount of desire, motivation, support, hard

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Chorus performs in Chicago concert The FP vocal music department had a busy year under the direction of Mr. Scott Bradford. On Dec. 15, 1985 they presented FP’s third annual Madrigal Dinner. On Feb. 1, 1986, they participated in the Indiana State School Music Association contest held at the University of Evansville. They presented their annual spring concert on April 7, 1987. They also sang at commencement. But the high point of the year was a trip to Chicago on May 9, 1986, to perform in a contest and a concert. 10