Grapevine High School - Mustang Yearbook (Grapevine, TX)

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30 Minutes And A Bus Ride ,Till Memphis B.. b. C. fay The band was presented this sign by the GHS Art Department and their teacher, Mrs. Upchurch, to be carried in the parade at Memphis. fbj On the morning of departure, the band hall was the scene of mass confusion. Qcj Band members made a mad rush for the buses QTURN THE PAGE FOR NEXT DRAMATIC EPISODE IN THIS MUSICAL JOURNEY ...Q BO minutes and a bus ride 'till Memphis read the black board in the band hall as the bus loading was nearing completion. At 1:15 p.m. the Grapevine Mus- tang Marching Band was off on their long awaited trip to the Memphis Tennessee Cotton Festival. Chaperoned by band booster club and faculty members the band rolled into Memphis at 10:30 p.m. that night. The band soon found out that their troubles had just begun as over '70 people with very much luggage attempted to crowd into a sparsely spaced lobby with two small, slowly moving elevators. Thursday morning the band went sight seeing and toured a reconstructed Indian village. Enroute the common term was, there is Elvis Presley's house. No there it is. To the surprise of everyone they did see Elvis Pres1ey's house as they headed back to the motel to prepare for their concert that afternoon in the Court Square. Later that night the band took a 2 112 hour river boat ride up the Mississippi River on the Memphis Queen. Under fairly clear skies the band headed for down- town Memphis to march in the Children's Parade. Upon arrival the weather soon changed and the band stood in the drizzle for over an hour awaiting their entrance following the preparade. Then it happened. The whole Mississippi River fell from the skies which soon ended the parade only after the band had marched numerous blocks under the torrential downpour. Festival activities for the rest of the day were canceled and the band was unable to perform their concert that evening. That night the band went to a carnival in downtown Memphis. Saturday the band headed home with a short visit to Hot Springs, Arkansas. The band returned home sore, sick, and worn out at 8:03 p.m., Saturday, May 13. But, ask any band member. It was all worth it to go to Memphis.

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Junior Council: A Hara' Working Group The Junior Council was organized in September as a working group of the Junior Class. These people were selected because of their interest in the activities of the Junior Class. Members of the council were in charge of twenty juniors each. Communicating agent for the juniors, they helped to involve the rest of the class in their various fund raising activities: selling doughnuts, washing wind- shields, selling extension cords, football programs, and other various projects. Without these people the Junior Class would not have been able to finance the prom. Members of the Junior Council were Randy Cooper, Karen Gawrys, John Edd Harper, Susan Long, Debbie J McDaniel, Susan Post, BruceScaff, Travis Specht, Jimmy Stroupe and Debbie Vest. Mrs. Garcia was their sponsor.

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