Pekin High School - Pekinian Yearbook (Pekin, IL)

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PERSONNEL Because of ils willingness to add its bit to all school, civic, and patriotic affairs, the band is an organization of which PCHS can be exceptionally proud. During the fall and early winter, its main work was marching. The snappy members of the marching unit appeared with their original and unique formations at all the football games at home, making the period between halves an interesting and lively one. After the marching season, preparations began for indoor work such as organizing the concert band and working up lively marches for basketball games. During t h e regular games, the band formed a scintillating background for the exciting atmosphere. The band's night to really shine forth, however, came on February 23, 1943, at the benefit game between Pekin and East Peoria. The attendance at this year’s game was record-breaking. Because all instrumental contests have been ruled out in the state of Illinois, an exchange of band chapel programs with Manual Training High of Peoria was substituted. During the second semester of the 1942-43 term, the band presented two chapel programs in the PCHS auditorium and a series of twilight concerts in the spring. The person most indispensable to a band is its director—Mr. Clarence Roth, who has produced a versatile group that can change in an instant from the snappy tempo of a Sousa's Band to the low, sweet strains of a Philharmonic Symphony. Members of the band are: Flutes: Evelyn Albers, Joy Dirksen, Eilah Vogelsang, Car-maline Montgomery, and Joan Hackler. Bassoons: Avis Busby, Alice Charlton. Bass Clarinet: James Bruce. E-flat Saxaphones: Dorothlyne Pinchon, Norma Heiken, Patsy Samuelson, Henry Stockeri, Richard Bolam, Robert Faux. B-flat tenor Saxaphones: John Bolam, Albert Heiser, Robert Warner. Alto Clarinet: Barbara Kit- chell, Billie Jean Jent. B-flat Clarinet: Norma Cooper, Wilma Fornoff, Lorene Maxwell, Marcia Hinds, Marilyn Hinds, Charlene Clarke, Eleanora Cappi, Mr. Clarence Roth Mary Lou Andrews, Marilyn Albrecht, Marjorie Reed, Helen Noreiul, Ellen Geer, Imogene Morrison, Ilene Palmer, Dorothy Waechter, Robert Rushford, Ina Lee Skinner, James Stolley, Richard Stolley, Arthur Valie, Ilene Vogel, Kathleen Flynn, Connie Golianis, Patricia Hamaan, Virginia King, Richard Leiby, Mary Maltby, Donna McKinley, Dorothy Meintz. Cornets: Donald Bailey, Lois Hanscomb, Gene Hartman, Ruth Johnson, Phil Kriegsman, Dorothy Neavear, Robert Orr, Betty Schmidgall, Leroy Sunderland, Louis Taylor, Dan Williams, Harvey French, Edward Gallagher, Robert Gerzetich, William Hill, Leslie Kepner, Arthur McSchool-er, Gerald Oilman, Richard Seeyle, Carolyn Waltmire, Harold Yokum, Barbara Hill. Trumpets: Richard Koobs, Marjorie Latham, Aileen Wood-mancy. Baritones: Ruth Lohnes, Paul Moorhouse, Dale Runyan, Marvin Crum, Bette Jean Soldwedel. Trombones: John Sommer, Ted Johnson, Wilma Ambrose, Robert Miars, Joanna Shroeder. Sousaphone: Delbert Kirk, James Moses, Mary Ellen Wallace, Clyde Phillips, Everett Fischer, Lyle Carter, Eugene Taylor. Percussion: Randall Dobbins, George Doren, James Wallinger, Ronald Shelling, Kenneth Rau, Ada LaVerne Hild. ‘■VA1 iVi i iY■ A iV iViViV AY W

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