Kilgore College - Ranger Yearbook (Kilgore, TX)

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Opposite pant, top left: Michael Turpin, assistant band director, shows off the newest look in silly string. Top right: A worker fills perfume bottles in the Fragonard perfumcrie. Bottom: The Rangcrettes pause in the Parade of Lights. A miniscule sample of the lighted square is shown behind them. Top page, above: Nichole Perry leads the Ranger Band on the narrow streets of Nice in the Battle of the Flowers parade. Above, left: Boats of all sizes find safe anchor in the harbor below the palace at Monaco. Above, right: Donnie Crenshaw, Nela McCurry. and Lyncllc Soape dance to Carnival during the Parade of Lights. 22

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Band, ‘Rettes, celebrate birthdays Cotton Bowl turns 50, Texas 150 New Year’s Day always brings many exciting events. The Cotton Bowl, Cotton Bowl Parade, Texas A M vs. Auburn, were the highlights of the newly arrived year for the KC Band and Rangcrcttes. 1986 marked the 50th Cotton Bowl Classic, the Texas Sesquicentennial, and the 37th journey of the ensemble and drill team to Dallas to perform. It all began with a short stay at the Dallas Hilton for the Ranger Band and Rangerettes prior to the New Year. Some brought in the New Year by attending a New Year’s Eve bash given courtesy of the A M Band, also guests at the hotel. The next day was the Cotton Bowl Parade. More than 60 floats and bands were traditionally led off by the Band and Rangerettes. After the warmer-than-usual parade, their ever-faithful carriages (Greyhound busses) awaited to immediately transport them to the Cotton Bowl. Upon arrival, they were soon performing well-rehearsed drills as a sold out stadium and CBS television cameras looked on. Pre-game included skydivers and a performance by the Vocal Majority of Dallas. At halftime, after the Texas A M and Auburn bands performed, in a pleasant temperature of 60 degrees, the KC Band and formed the state of Texas as the Rangerettes lined the top and the A M and Auburn bands brought up the sides to play a fanfare and King Cotton. The roaring of the mainly maroon and white clad aficionados only added to the excitement and enthusiasm of the occasion. The best thing it? Ask any Rangerette or Band member. “It wasn’t cold!” Top- Workmen put the final touches on the Cotton Bowl’s ‘'50th logo in the middle of Commerce Street in downtown Dallas before the Ranger Band and Rangerettes performed before the large crow ds. Above, left- A skydiver with complete with a Texas flag was just one of the colorful ways Texas celebrated the sesquicentennial. This parachutcrcr landed on the 50 yard line during halftime. Above, right- Members of the KC Ranger Band lead the historical 50th procession of the Cotton Bowl.