Quincy High School - Pine Yearbook (Quincy, CA)

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FRONT ROW: Joan Tonnant, Piano; Mr. Schott, Director; Bob Eden. Drums; Freelene Johnson, 1st Alto Sax; June Grow. 2nd Tenor Sax; La June Green, 4th Tenor Sax; Marqaret DuPont. 3rd Alto Sax. BACK ROW: Graco Maunder. Bass; Marilyn Edwards. 3rd Trumpet; Maxine Herring. 2nd Trumpet; Bill Hartley. 1st Trumpet; Shirley Hagen, 2nd Trombone; Kirk Clements, 1st Trombone. Dance Orchestra Thanks to Mr. Schott. Q. H. S. had a good Dance Band this year. At the beginning of the year everyone had hla doubts, but after a few trying months the Dance Band began to take shape. The first dance which they played was one of our own school parties given by the Commissioners. They played an hour and a half; then Harry James. Glenn Miller. Tommy Dorsey, and other name bands took over for the rest of the evening. Their first out of town trip was to Greenville. where the Greenville and Quincy Dance Bands played alternately all evening. The Quincy Grammar School engaged them to play for one of their school parties. This was the first all evening job for the gang, and it was quite a task. The Dance Band, after a few weeks was engaged to play in Portola for their Sophomore Hop. This was one trip they will remember for a long time. Their drummer Bob Eden, had a hectic evening. They arrived in Pcrtola ready to play when Bob discovered his drumsticks were still in Quincy, or lost. After frantically searching for them, he finally got some from the Portola band, and the Dance Band began their evening's engagement. Immediately, a fuse blew and out went the lights, while Bobby knocked his bass drum off the stand. However they finally got started and completed a very successful night. On the 7th of April, the Band gave a dance, and the Greenville and Quincy Dance Bands were engaged to play alternately, but because of illness in the Greenville Dance Band. Quincy played most of the evening. The group was engaged a second time by Greenville for their Prom; this time the Dance Band went in formals and tuxedoes, and did a very creditable job. The last dance job of the year was the Portola Prom; again the group went formal. The members of the Dance Band enjoyed their playing more than any of their other activities, and feel well recompensed for the hours they and Mr. Schott struggled to become finally an enthusiastically received group.

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H. S. Band DIRECTOR MR. SCHOTT TRUMPETS: Maxine Herring Bill Hartley Marilyn Edwards Barbara Wentrell Dean Lawson Altalee Larison CLARINETS: June Grow Rita Blankenship Phillip Oels Patricia Bell Norma Sell Margaret DuPont Bob Dietrick Bob Eden Audrey Belmont Grace Maunder Bill Boone Noreen Pence OBOE: 4 Freelene Johnson BASSES: Keith Myers Bill Zion TROMBONES: Edward Delano Kirk Clements Shirley Hagen DRUMS: Tommy Eisenhuth Ellen Brown HORNS: Joan Tennant Mike Marchese Pearl Huntington Lois Stenberg SAXOPHONES: Lajune Green Margaret Brasier FLUTE: Emeline Wilson The band began this school year with two more members than the above roll: Jerry Cawdrey who played a trumpet, and Evelyn Brady, who played a horn. Evelyn had been a student of Q. H. S. for two and a half years. Jerry had come to Quincy at the beginning of the year. During the basketball season, the band played for nearly all of the games. Before the tournament, the band paraded down in front of the court house and back to school, playing a few marches. During Public School Week, the band presented a concert consisting of six pieces: A Santa Cecilia—March; Londonderry Air; Songs My Mother Taught Me; Black Eyes; Schubert's Serenade; Sir Galahad Overture. One of the outstanding parties of the year was given by the band. The decoration theme was music. Gold painted notes hung from the ceiling of colored lights. Trumpet players, trombone players, drummer, clarinet players, and a piano player made of paper, decorated the walls all aound the dance floor. The Greenville Orchestra, and Q. H. S.'s Orchestra played alternately all evening. Seven of the band students graduate this year. This leaves a hole in the band which we hope will be satisfactorily filled next year.

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FRONT ROW (Left to Right): Letitia Penman, Lajune Green. Shirley Kelton, Miss Bramble. Maxine Herring. SECOND ROW: Georgia Lee Wright. Marilyn Edwards. Elaine Mason. Lois Stenberg. Mardell Harvey. Grace Maunder. Pearl Huntington. Joan Tennant, Dona Hayes, Pat Morrow, Armadale Perry. Shirley Hagen. Audrey Belmont. THIRD ROW: Carrie Olivier, Dorothy Russell. Barbara Wentxell, Mary Green. Pat Bell, Altalee Larison. Rita Blankenship. Beryle Cox. Betty Moore. Dawn Stockton. Rosemary Robertson, Emelin Wilson. Phyllis Kidder. Wesleyne Lambeth. Margarot DuPont. BACK ROW: Ellen Brown, Anita Stapley. Margaret Morrow, EmUy Berry, Virginia Pierce. Margaret Brazier, Virginia Pigg. Freeleno Johnson, June Grow. Iris Sharp. Mary Lou Reid, Kitty Mason. Noreen Pence. Esther Ramelli, Taty Penman. G. A. A. The officers of the G.A.A. in the year of '45 were: President. Maxine Herring; Vice-President. Shirley Kelton; Secretary. Mary Ann Carter; Treasurer; Lajune Green; Commissioner, Letitia Penman. This year wc.s the most successful year for the G.A.A. They took part in the interclass games all year long, and gave one of the three top parties of the year. The motif of the party was Hallowe'en, including. of course, a cornfield on a spooky Hallowe'en. Cornstalks were stacked around the dance floor and amusing drawings of owls, witches, etc., covered the walls. A graveyard on the red velvet curtains covering the stage, and a haunted house in the background on the blue curtains covering the bleachers heightened the gruesome effect. In order to get to the dance floor, everyone was compelled to crawl through the Hall of Horrors.” with icy hands to shake, and crawly spiders going down necks, to say nothing of crawling on hands and knees through the long tunnel. The guests were entertained by a ghost story told by Freelene Johnson, two dances by local girls, and a reading by Erma Bemhisel. Everyone wore his oldest clothes, and throughout the dance sat on the floor, where they were served cider and sandwiches. All of the classes took part in the girls interclass basketball games. The Seniors won all their games. The Juniors beat the Freshmen and the Sophomores beat the Juniors and the Freshmen. In volley ball interclass games, the Juniors beat the Seniors, Sophomores and Freshmen. The Sophomores beat the Freshmen. The girls also participated in the Ping-pong and Badminton Tournaments. Freelene Johnson was the school champion in Ping-pong. The G. A. A. members are all quite pleased with their activities of the year and hope to go or. as one of the more important groups of Quincy High.