Memorial High School - Reata Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Fufu re Maesfros Find Fun, Work in Program WheTher polished virTuosi or unskilled beginners, members oT The Three bands and The orchesTra have Tound Tun as well as wearying labor in Their parTicipaTion in The music program. The sense oT Tellowship, oT comraderie, oT worlc well clone which This eTTorT provides, is perhaps as imporTanT as The acTual masTery oT musical slcills or The achievemenT oT a polished delivery. Though The road To musical excellence is oTTen Tull oT seTbacks, The knowledge and selT-conTidence gained by progress in Technique provide more Than adequaTe compensaTion. 1,7 DirecTor Gerald ClanTon waves The magic wand -his baT'on xffffim' T- s Qffrflc 'isa Once more wiTh feeling please-! CadeT Band Uh, ThaT lasT noTe was A-TlaT, noT A-sharp, I believe . Mr. Thomas and The orchesTra rehearse. T . 46

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Hormonoires Achieve County-Wide Recognition Singing aT a counTy-wide Eagle ScouT RecogniTion Ban- queT, where CounTy Judge Thomas STovall was The principal speaker, highlighTed The l-larmonaires' l965-66 season. The choir was The only vocal group To parTicipaTe in This evenT, a signal honor. ln addiTion, The group lenT iTs lusTre To The February choral workshop, The spring concerT, and several assemblies and banqueTs. Drawn Trom The Chorale's male secTion, l-larmonaire members oTTen spenT Twice as much Time in rehearsal as mosT oT The Chorale. Membership Keni Basye Gary Belding Gaylon Dickens Ga ry Duck Richard ErnesT Sieve Gaines Jim Kohneri Charles LeBlanc B b N' l o ie sen 5Tan PrescoTT Mole Chorus Prepares For Role in Chorale The mosT recenTly Tormed Memorial choir is The Male Chorus. made up oT underclassmen inTeresTed in vocal per- Tormance. This is a preparaTory organizaTion Tor TuTure Chorale members. This year The boys parTicipaTed in a dis- TricT-wide ChrisTmas concerT. The February choral workshop. and The spring concerT given Tor Memorial sTudenTs. Membership John Chaney John Drew John Dunn Ty Eckley Jay Fullinwider Dave Gardner Bruce Honea Dan Marcuse Whil' Malieson Bill Olson Richard Pearson Larry Poe Chris Seaman Richard Slover Spike Spence Ralph Thompson Bobby Tickle Sfeye Van Loozen Tom Winzcler

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Orchestra Places Four j . . A L in All-State 'ig r . Q Having developed a reperloire ol classical and lighr classical pieces, Memorials conslanlly-rehearsing orcheslra presenled a program lo sludenls al Memorial Junior l-ligh School February 8. The conlinual praclice proved beneficial in Jrhe March I2 orcheslral conlesls. when lhe group played Schuberl's Unfinished Symphony and Gluck's Hlphigenia in Aulisf' Many members parlicipaled in lhe l965-66 all-dislricl orcheslra, composed of musicians from all Three high schools, while lour won All-Slale honors. Orchesfra John Barringlon Derrick Bonewilz John Chaney Mary Cheadle Don Cook Bill Dunn John Eckley Charles Frosl' Jay Fullenwider Dave Gardner Byron Giezenlanner Kalhy Gifford Bruce Honea Kenny Johnson Gayle Karler Mark Love Dan Marcuse Whir Malleson Dick Maxwell Jerry Maze Membership Karen McClure Bill McMullen Dave Middlebrook Bill Olson Bob Oney Richard Pearson Larry Poe Jan Roller Chris Seaman Richard Slover Solon Spence Tyrone Temple David Tessmer Ralph Thompson Bobby Tickle Bryon Van Eafon Sieve Van Loozen Charles Warren Alan Wing Tom Winzeler Did you say rhal you had played 'lhe bass violin before? Mr. Leroy Thomas. direclor. 47