Lowell High School - Retrospectus Yearbook (Lowell, MI)

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JUNIOR BAND Back row: Mr. Jessup, Marilyn Houseman, Lyman Baker, Dennis Hawk, Kirk Starkweather, John Kropf, Joel Thurtell, Larry Brady, Dale Eckman, Diane Posthumus, Jerry Nash, John Kerekas, Gaye Carey, Kathy Ueltchy. Fifth row: Marlene Koewers, Ricky Bosworth, Lynda Averill, Holly Goad, Douglas LaDue, Bill Oosterhofl, Jim Connors, Barbara Adams, Candice Clark, Sally Golds. Fourth row: Duane Mclver, Julie Erler, Mary Munroe, Cheryl Staal, Vicky Briggs, Taris Zahm, Margaret Hill, Gary Kropf, Mary Kay Barber, Dennis Hockenbury, Joan Schlernitzauer. Third row: Richard Court, Linda DeWitt, Kathy Topley, Bonnie Adrianse, Craig Walters, Tommy Davis, Dorothy Mcllver, Suzanne Thaler, Diane Blazo, Mary Kay Winks, Suzanne Jacobi, Sharon Walker. Second row: Larry Hartley, Joan Jankowski, Wendy Christoff, Lola Lee Shaler, Pat Troy. First row: Louise Grover, Suzanne Starkweather. GRADE CHOIR Back row: Dennis Seeley, Douglas Olin, Fred Verspoor, Donald Dilly, Roger Morgan, William Doyle, Tim Vanclerveen, James Russ, Thomas Spicer, James Martin, Thomas Kehoe, Larry Hartley, Donnel Marshall, Mike Dawson, Larry Miller. Third row: Lloyd Wepman, William Roth, Richard Green, Barbara BeVier, Suzanne Jacobi, Susan Averille, Lynda Averille, Linda Shephard, Frances Pearson, Pat Kingsley, Joan Schlernitzauer, Bill Osterhoft, Douglas LaDue, Gordon Farlee. Second row: Janice Clouse, Sandra Wilcox, Cheryl Koert, Carrie Albas, Kay Holtz, Ruth Ann Moore, Carole Pearson, Barbara Bentley, Lynn Hays, Dorothy Henderson, Judy Kelley, Beverly Suddarth, Jean Witherall, Louise Marvin. Front row: Miss Bloodgood, Gretchen Wessel, Kitty Ellis, Margaret Hill, Sandra Bean, Mary Munroe, Joan Jankowski, Carol Sue Potter, Andre Gibbs, Suzanne Starkweather, Arlene Curtis, Ellen Aikey, Carolyn Aikey, Janet Gould, Janet Norton. JUNIOR HIGH CHOIR The Junior High School Choir draws its members from the seventh and eighth grades. Anyone interested in the choir is eligible to sing with this group. The group performed at the Spring Concert after also appearing in the Christmas program. 54

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Bock row: Mr. Jessup, Director, Jane Vander Veen, Robert Thaler, Galen Pletcher, Jon Walter, Darrel Rash, Edward Ridgwciy, Louise Noah, Vernon Osborne, Jim Vanden Hout. Fifth row: Diane Hawk, Ronald Lindbloam, Allan Eckmon, David Davis, Sandra Staal, David Thaler, Jeanne Brush, Judy Posthumus, Ann Marie Alexander, Brooke Mullen, John Wakefield. Fourth row: Kay Den Boer, Pat Covey, Judy Brian, June Preston, Martha Stiff, Karen LuDue, Rose Ellyn Mclver, Frances Burtle, Karen Hendricks, Mary Ann Alexander, Susan Keck, Lola Alexander. Third row: Linda Connors, Connie Clemenz, Peggy Sinz, Linda Townsend, Dawn Averill, Ruth Ann Shade, Marion Siegle, Ruth Kinyon, Karen Shaler, Roberta Zink, Rebecca Vander Veen. Second row: Gene Walter, Dick Ward, Judy Odell, Sharon Ellis. Front row: Julie Frahm, Sheila Olin, Joan Bishop. BAND The Senior and Junior bands have had many combined activities this year in a fund raising efifort for the purchase of new Senior Band uniforms. We sold programs at the football games, sold fruit cakes lxefore Christmas, and conducted a two month candy sale, and sponsored the District Seven High Solo and Fnsemble Festival on February l5th, and with the help of band parents, served lunches and sold candy and pop at the festival. We raised over SlOO0.00 this year on these activities, The bands combined for a fall concert with the Tonette Class and the Varsity Choir, playing various types of music including Christmas selections. The Junior Band marched for the Halloween parade, The Senior Band, as usual, played for Showboat and Amateur night last summer, marched for all home football games, played for all pep meetings, and furnished a pep band for basketball games. Both bands went to the district festivals and both re- ceived excellent ratings from all concert judges and superior ratings from the sight reading judges. The saxophone quartet and the brass sextet played at various community functions and with the saxo- phone duet and Susan Keck's solo, went to the State Solo and Ensemble festival where they all received excellent ratings and Susan passed the proficiency examination. As was mentioned, the bands sponsored the Dis- trict Seven Solo and Ensemble Festival here, which drew over one thousand people to Lowell on Feb- ruary l5th. Practically all band members worked on making this a success, either by acting as chair- man for various rooms, selling candy, or working in the office. The bands' spring schedule was. both bands played in the Spring Concert and marched Memo- rial Day, The Senior Band also went on the ex- change assembly trip to Lee and Grandville and participated in the Grand Valley Band Festival. The drum major for the Senior Band is James Vanden Hout. The twirlers are: Julie Frahm, Sheila Olin, and Joan Bishop, with Karen LeDue and Judy Posthumus as alternates. The Junior Band drum major is Dale Eckman. The twirlers are Susan Starkweather, Louise Grover, and Joan Schlernit- zauer. The officers for Senior Band are: President, Sheila Olin, Vice President, Ann Marie Alexanderg Secre- tary, Karen Shaler, Reporter, Jon Walter, Business Manager, Gene Walter.

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Back row: Dick Harris, Joe Strouse, Gerald Maxim, John Michel, Roger Richard, Rex Dowling, Donald Dawson, Nancy Charters, Carol Thuston, Sylvia Dykhuizen, Roger Stevens, Brian Hoag, Brian Estes, Lloyd Norwood. Third row: Betty Wittenbach, Nancy DeRushia, Arlene Heenstra, Nila Hesche, Mariam Alderink, Rebecca VanderVeen, Judy Fuller, Rosemary Kutchey, Suzanne Hoffman, Beverly Wepman, Judy Brian, Joan Mull, Jean Posthumus, Linda Stevens, Jane VanderVeen. Second raw: Joanne Venneman, Judy Hill, Gloria Clemenz, Margaret Court, Darlene Mayou, Karen Schneider, Sharon Kingsley, Alice Smith, Elke Kiel, Imogene Overholt, Sandy Bozung, Judy Posthumus, Sharon Kautiman, Addie Tower. First row: Miss Bloodgood, Director, Rose Pellerito, Frances Moerdyke, Betty Burton, Judie Suddarth, Jayma Wolfe, Mavis Saganek, Sharon Story, Martha Wittenbach, Janice Curtiss, Sandra Gibbs, Rosalie lewis, Delores Suddarth, Martha Stiff. GENERAL CHOIR The General Choir is an organization of sixty excellent performance on both occasions, particu- Students Whose membership in the Cllell' is defer' larly at the district festival where they received a No. mined by a tryout at the beginning of each term. This year the choir has been scheduled during a full hour which has benefited the organization. The Choir porficipofed once Ggoin in both the All interested high school students are eligible to District and the Grand Valley Festivals, giving an participate in this choir. l rating. The choir also sang at the annual Christmas program and the Spring Concert. Back row: Bonnie Howard, Rosemary Kutchey, Nancy DeRushia, Rebecca VandenVeen, Jim Vanden Hout, Gene Walter, Jon Walter, Miss Anne Bloodgood, Director, Jack Hartley, lloyd Norwood, Dick Ward, Anne Mullen, Martha Stifi, Judi Ellis. Front row: Sharon Kauffman, Sylvia Dykhuizen, Martha Wittenbach, Julie Frahm, Terry Paddock, Mariorie Rinard, Brooke Mullen, Susan Keck, Marsha Verspoor, Jane Vander Veen, Sandra Bozung, Judy Posthumus, Sharon Ellis. VARSITY CHOIR A small select group of high school students com-A The Varsity Choir participated in the district fes- prise the membership of Varsity Choir. This organi- tival at Grand Rapids, and performed in a very zation is a non-credit unit and meets for rehearsal one excellent manner, In addition to singing at the evening a week and one morning during the Activ- Christmas Concert, and at the Spring Concert, the ity Period. In order to be members of this choir, Varsity Choir sang at the Garden Club of Lowell, students must pass a tryout. and for the P.T.A. Open House. 55