Mineral Ridge High School - Ridge Yearbook (Mineral Ridge, OH)

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l isis TTT THE RIDGE yuliizok All TTT T misjl ORCHESTRA Four years ago lVlr. Simpkins organized our orchestra. He battled through the first year with very little to work with. This being the first year we had ever had a band or orchestra. the boys and girls did not have very good instruments and most of them got corncts. which over balanced the string instruments. Our second year we had a new director, lVlr. Coe. We had improved over the pre- vious year as some of the members had taken private lessons during vacation and now look more of an interest in the orchestra. M r. Coe was again with us, our third year. This term we had made marked improve- ment. This our fourth year. we have a new director. Mr. Gilliland a well known musician ol' this vicinity. We have several new instruments introduced into the orchestra, which have made an improvement and we hope that it, will be still more successful in years to come. Forty-seven

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ww inummohmmmm - - - 1msH grey 1 BAND 'l'hv lirst hand was tbl'jl'illtlZt'tl nndt-r the- dirfwlion ol' M r. Silnpkins. Little' progrf-ss was niadv thv lirst yvar. 'l'hv si-voml yt-ar wr- had a ne-w dirvvlor. M r. Hoge-r Coe-. llc- was a wry vapahlv man. having: had a lt'l'lll with Fousafs Band and many othvr vxpvI'iv11c'c-s. 'l'his yvar our hand improx 1-d. S4-w-ral ol' tht- iiivriiln-i's we-rv also mc-rnhvrs ol' lhv district and county organ- izalions. .Xgrain our third ya-ar wt- had Mr. tfov with us. Tho me-mhvrs of the- hand vvvrf' again invilvd to thu' dislrivt and vonnty organizations. Our l'ourIh yvar wo had a nvw dirvctor. M r. li. D. Gilliland. also a l'ormvr nn-inlwr of Sonsa's lianml. NI pre-se-nl our hand has lws-nly-livv me-inhs-rs and has iinprowd wry grvatly sinvv tht- lirsl attvinpl lltllll' ye-ars ago. Sm-wral nf-w instrnnn-nts liaw hvvn inlrodin'f-d. During thc' four ya-ars it has made' svn-ral pnhlim' tlppt'tll'illli't'S at tlhapvl and l'. 'l'. A. mot-tings, 'l'hu- last appoaram-v ol' the- hand and orc'hc-stra will hc- in Nlay. This program will vonsist ol' solos hy liohvrl Springe-i'. 4-ornvt: Willis l'f-arvv. haritonv: and Olga liayowski. saxaplionv. 'l'hf- data- ol' this lll'UgIl'ilIll had not he-on set when the' hook wvnl to the' pre-ss. l orl-v-r iylrl