Port Huron High School - Student Yearbook (Port Huron, MI)

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Music Has Grown in Size and Sound Music at Port Huron High School began as a definite port of the curriculum in 1910. Before that time, bits of singing took place very infrequently. In 1902, Miss Edna Fraser became the first supervisor of music in the Port Huron area. Formal music education was first started at that time. In 1919, credit was given for Music Apprecia- tion and Orchestra, to augment credit in Vocal which had already been establishea. Instrumental music became popular when Mr. Ernest Straffon joined the high school faculty. The Port Huron High School Band grew in size and excellence under the direction of Mr. Straffon. Upon the arrival of Eric Payton, the Band almost tripled in size. Shortly after that, the concept of the Morching Machine was brought about. In 1972, The Marching Machine went to Germany for the summer Olympics. TOP — The 1 923 Orchestra. CENTER — The 1957 Bond. ABOVE — The 1 927 Orchestra. BOTTOM RIGHT — The 1975-76 Big Red Morching Machine. RIGHT — Eric Payton Director. 6

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The Lighthouse Ha§ Changed Too The school newspoper, THE LIGHTHOUSE, has grown and changed with the passage of time. Founded in 1 923, the paper has been published for 34 of the 52 yeors since. Beginning as a monthly, it was composed and printed outside the school. In the Depression years, the paper stopped publication, resuming in the late ‘30 s os a dittoed publication. Today, the paper is composed completely within the school and only the printing is done professionally. More than one thousand students have been members of THE LIGHTHOUSE staff. 5

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m t- « | A A - « ft m $L HH p th fc V V V V i £ u u. t e t jf f -. • t f JCT n - 4 ’ i «• «•», V , I A 1 1 4 it i Vi i a , ‘ 3 ‘ 5 f vf ? v ; TOP — The 1934 Choir. TOP CENTER — The 1 937 Cho.r. BOTTOM CENTER — The 1957 Choir. BOTTOM LEFT — The 1975-76 Choir. BOTTOM RIGHT — James Crum- back, Director.