Illmo Scott City High School - Memories Yearbook (Scott City, MO)

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lllllll S Ill lHl Nlll lH FIRST ROW: Ruth Ann Eifert, Roger Seal, Estella Adaline Dunger, and Bill Coombes. SECOND ROW: Lola Bollinger, Jim Bol- linger, Thelma Kinder, and Leroy Roth. Each month's candidates for the best girl and boy citizen of the month is nomi- nated by the faculty. Under the supervision of the student council, the students make 2- THlRD ROW: Mary Ann Fisher, Larry Wad- lington, Mary Faith Estes, and Robert Ross. FOURTH ROW: Patsy Ruth Hosea, Dennis Wheeler, Barbara Jean Farmer, and Bill lnnis. the selection from these nominees. The selection of the candidates is based upon courteousness, dependability, trust- worthiness, loyalty, and initiative.

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Edward C. White, band director, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, August 30, l9l7. He attended grade school and high school in Girard, Ohio, where he was a member ofthe school band for seven years. Upon graduation from high school, Mr. White became a member of a traveling dance band. While playing in Blytheville, Ark., Mr. White learned of the Southeast Missouri State College, Cape Girardeau. Upon visiting the campus of this institution, he decided to enter college, and in l946, received his B. S. degree in Education, with a major in music. Under the baton of Mr. White the lllmo-Forntelt high school band has grown in prominence, and will, in the future, rank with the leading EDWARD C. WHITE Director Under the capable direction of Edward C. White, the band has grown from the twenty-six members of last year to the present fifty-one, however, only thirty- seven of these play in the regular marching band. The band performed at the football and basket ball games, in the spring contest at the Southeast Missouri State college, and in the following parades: N 4,8 bands of this district. Diamond Jubilee and Christmas parades in Cape Girar- deau, the Mardi Gras parade in Cairo, Illinois, and in the local tri-city Boy Scout parade. Other school activities in which the band partici- pated in this year were the baccalaureatte and corn- mencement exercises, and the annual spring concert.