Girard High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Girard, IL)

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MUSIC DEPARTMENT In the fall the band reorganzzed wxth Mr Woods as 1ts new dxrector The members marched UI the Homecoming Parade and played at the Ho mecommg Football Game The band wlnch has thlrty two partmcipatmg members has also played at most of the basket ball games On December ll the Musxc Department gave thexr annual Chrxstmas program and on Apr1l l 1tS Sprmg Concert The boys glee club has s1xteen members and the gxrls glee club thnrty sax members On Aprll Z8 they partzcxpated 111 the Macoupm County Music Festival after whmch they prepared for their Summer Concerts HOMEC OMING FESTIVITIES FOOTBALL GAME AND DANCE DRAW RECORD CROWD The I-Iomecommg fest1v1ties October Z4 brought back the largest number of alumnae and frlends the lugh school has ever known. All through the day there was much anxlety as to what the weather would be and as to whether the parade could be held But by 3 o clock the skies had cleared and the parade was formed woe to the Senxors Q led by the color bearer the cheerleaders and the band The floats were colorful and mnterestmg Much of the success of the undertakmg was due to the mterest of the classes of other years who responded so generously in makmg lt a bag day Proceedmg to the square from the high school a pep meeting was held and an inv1tat1on Mus1c for the dance was furnished by Paul johnson s Orchestra The hmghlight of the evening was the crowmng of the football queen Shxrley Huson of Nxlwood chosen by a vote of the student body She was escorted to her throne by Benny Starks Her attendants were Darlene Allen jean Pryor Eileen Rucker jo Ann England and Vera Sheppard Thexr escorts were Donald Jenluns Derald Wilson Ralph Yarke joe Tosh and Eldred Weddle The Hzgh School wxshes to thank the grade schools for their fme representation Their contnbution of floats showed ingenuity and beauty The bxcycles added much to the fun and excitement of the day Remember too the stalwart men ln the football squad of 1957 Girard s future football team In the high school floats the Senior Class represented an old fashxoned funeral with Virden in the crude pme box and a preacher and undertaker dressed an solemn black nd mg on the front seat of the hearse Weeping flower gxrls with armloads of beautiful weells followed The junior Class by the costumes of the people of 1ts float showed that one can be neither too old nor too young to dance The Sophomore float had a purple bulldog on a hand turned spit roastxng over a fxre and chefs were serving Vir dogs to the crowd The Freshxnen float was a nursery done up in pmk and blue and filled wxth jolly little babies having a good tune whack1ng away wxth the1r txny sticks at a fallen Vzrden football hero The Home Ec float represented a scene in a home in 1957 where a mother was telling her faxnily of the good times way back in 1947 f ' I n , , . issued to every one to attend the game at 7:30-Girard Vs. Virden, and the dance.