Gettysburg High School - Boomerang Yearbook (Gettysburg, SD)

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GETTYSBURG Clarinets: Jim Combellick, Dottie Olsen, Richard Klein, Donna Davis, Dorothy Engel, Elsie Tays, Ginger Hart, Phoebe Opp, Dana Peep, Jeanette Adams, James Deck, Jane Hannigan, Joan Shaffer, Mary Joyce Cosand, Joie Klein. Alto Clarinet: Phyllis Larson. Bass Clarinet: Joan Dough- erty. Bassoon: Mary Jean Von Wald. Oboe: Lucille Voorhes. Piccolo: Ann Muck. Flutes: Alberta Houck, Lorraine Fenger. Saxaphones: Betty McNeely, Pauline Hockesson, Howard Opp, Herbert Dutt. Comets: Grant Newman, Duane Nichols, Milton Starks, Larry Stoner, Al- len Markovetz. Trombones: Earl Stucke, Lloyd Stucke, Robert Houck, James Moore, Duane Beiber. Baritone: Chad Hinckley. French Horns: Donna Maas, Bonnie Bartels, Phyllis Vetter, Geraldine Fenger. Tubes: Duane Comeau, Dick Tays. Bass Drum: Chuck Newland. Snare Drums: Ronnie Olsen, Jim Kaiser, Franklin Fransen. FIRST DIVISION RATING Music Contest April ll-12. 1946 Violin-Bob Boulding Baritone Vocal-Jack Schoof Trombone-J ack School Bass Vocal-Bob Boulding Tenor Saxophone--Betty DeBoer Small Brass Ensemble Flute-Alberta Houck Girls' Vocal Ensemble Soprano Vocal-Betty McNeely Mixed Chorus Cornet-Clark Newman Boys' Vocal Ensemble French Horn-Patricia McNeely Girls' Glee Club Piccolo-Helen Hope Hinckley Band 32

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GROUPS Standing tbacls :owls Herbert Dutt, Howard Opp, Phoebe Opp, Duane Nichols, Duane Comeau, Ronnie Olsen, Earl Stucke, Dana Peep, Jim Combellick. Seated: Richard Klein, Grant New- man, Milton Starks, Director, Chad Hinckley, and Chuck Newland. Originated for the Carnival in December, the comical and crazy, Village Band, staggered on to give five more performances at Rotary, Agar, Onida, Cheyenne, and before the GHS Student Body. The play will stand forever in the memories of the audiences and cast alike. The girls have three trios this year instead of one triple trio similar to the group which rated superior at the music contest last year. The boys ensemble is an octet busily engaged in Shortin' Bread, and they plan to defend their last year's superior with success. A mixed octet of four boys and four girls has been formed and has a bright future ahead in the contest. Two band ensembles, a woodwind and a brass ensemble, have been organized also, and these too are highly optimistic. FIRST TRIO SECOND TRIO Ardys Becker, Betty McNeely, Joan Tobin. Dottie Olsen, Donna Spicer, Joyce Schneider.

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BAND Gettysburg High School has long been proud of its band, and justly so. For three years prior to losing our first band master, Mr. Schuster, to the armed forces, the band placed first at the Hickory Stick Music Contest in Mobridge. In 1942, after winning at Mobridge, it went on to the National School Music Competition Festival at Aberdeen where the beautiful plaque which hangs from the north assembly wall was awarded to it for placing second in the Class C size schools. For over a year during the war there was no Gettysburg Band until Mr. Jerome Urban came at the beginning of the 1944-45 school year, and began to rebuild the organization. A Spring Concert was given in 1945, and the outstanding Unfinished Symphony by Schubert was the crowning per- formance. With the beginning of the 45-46 school year the band dug in in earnest for the Spring Concert at Mobridge. It presented a War Bond concert in December and the Spring Concert in April with the overture Orpheus the outstanding numberg and went on to Mobridge to take first itself, and one ensemble and eight soloists also placed first. . This year the band is again preparing for The Spring Concert and Mobridge. Two ensembles and fourteen instrumental solos are being prepared by the band members and Mr. Urban for this spring's sessions. The Pep Band, composed of fewer members than the Concert Band, has been active at home basketball games for years. For the last two years it had joined with the Onida Band to play for the District 16 tournament. This year, players from the newly organized Agar band came into the Tour- nament Band in addition to Gettysburg and Onida musicians. Mr. Urban has directed this tourna- ment band for all three years.