Rochester High School - Manitou Ripples Yearbook (Rochester, IN)

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Wg! IVA., Mo , , 'ii f' -'l f yn, f, I 12 , I ff by 'Q f 4, ACT III In the third act of MANITOU RIPPLES, we give you the activities of R. H. S. They are many and variedg there is an activity to suit the taste of each student. The clubs do fine work around the school and community, the plays afford many hearty laughs to their spectators, and the music department gives a great deal of listening pleasure to the stu- dents and citizens of this community. ACTIVITIES

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This 1944-1945 school year was one jammed with activity for our R. H. S. band. Fifty-three members and six baton twirlers named these officers early in September: Captain, Dick Ross: Lieutenant, Tom Aylesworth: Drum Major, Wallace Ewer: Ser- geants, Dick Beery, Kathryn Felix, Luanne Zimmerman: Twirling Sergeant, Rose Mary Huxley: Color Sergeant, Russell Heyde: Cor- porals: Iolene Messman, secretary: Frederick Van Duyne and Robert Rouch, equipment: Janis Thacker and Bud Babcock. librar- ians: Genevieve Kestnsr and Anna Nelif, uniforms. The director was Ronald E. Melton, and honorary faculty sponsors were Orvan V. Van Lue and Miss Dale Lichtenwalter. Parade engagements included Armistice Day, November 11, Band Parents Fall Festival, November 21, and 4-H Achievement Day, December 9. Then came the basketball schedule of home games for which band and twirlers provided a new routine of varied intermission entertainment for each appearance. Fountain Lake Fanfare was the band's theme: and just before the varsity game got underway, the National Anthem accompanied Presentation of the Colors. Members of the Color Unit were Russell Heyde, Ralph Miller, Charles Rogers, and Wendell Bearss. Baton Twirlers, Rose Mary Huxley, Betty Leckrone, Jane Sisson, Engrid Peterson, Cath- erine Carruthers, and Phyllis Shultz presented floor show exhibi- tions, once with the aid of a kindergarten twirler, Gretchen Jane Melton. Students tapped toes and sang such tunes as these with the band: Louisiana Hayride , Great Day , Basin Street Blues , Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy , Don't Fence Me In . For the First time a mid-winter concert was presented january 21, with john D. Melton, Director of Instrumental Music at Morton School, Hammond, and a brother of our director as guest conduct- or and flute soloist. Other soloists were Dick Ross, cornet, and Tom Aylesworth, marimba. A Thanksgiving Convocation was furnished by the band No- vember 22. Hymn-singing by the student body with band accom- paniment and playing of chorale prelude and postlude selections by the band combined to make an impressive service. As usual, the Third Annual Spring Concert provided the high point of the year, May 6. It was our extreme good fortune to have as guest conductor Nilo W. Hovey, Director of Bands at Arthur jordan Conservatory of Music in Indianapolis, a nationally recognized authority in instrumental music education. Soloists were Dick Ross, Cornet, and Lois Gilger, alto saxophone. Attendance was estimated at one thousand persons who contributed generous- ly to a free-willing offering. To fulfill community requests for program numbers, three stand- ing quartets were organized: Brass, Dick Ross, Robert Rouch, Dick Beery, Richard Cook: Saxophone, Lois Gilger, Janice Spohn, Rosanna Ross, Virginia Goss: Mixed Clarinet, jean Spohn, Joan Schafer, Gordon Hedges, Russell Heyde. Ten members were entered in the Manchester College Winter Clinic band March 16, six of whom were awarded first chair posi- tions through tryouts. In M. C.'s 1944 summer clinic, June 15-25, seventeen bandsters were enrolled from here, and Mr. Melton was clarinet instructor and director of small ensembles. Senior band members are Tom Aylesworth, Frances Castleman, Jack Kern, Genevieve Kestner, Dick Ross and Frederick Van Duyne: senior twirlers are Rose Mary Huxley, Betty Leckrone, Engrid Peterson, and jane Sisson. An all-city junior band of fifty-nine members, grades five through nine, and a group of seventeen third and fourth graders studying tonettes represent provision for replacement of graduat- ing players. Twirlers Leckrone and Sisson held weekly class les- sons in baton twirling for thirty grade school aspirants, In the band picture are the following people: First Row: Genevieve Kestner, Gordon Hedges, Jack Kern, Wallace Ewer, joan Mullen, Betty Jo Vernon, Luanne Zim- merman. Second Row: Joan Shafer. Russell Heyde, Barbara Jarrette, Gerald Damas, Al- berta Glassley, Frances Castleman, Janice Miller, Gerald Neff, Janice Spohn, Lcis Gilger. Third Row: Willidean Cumberland, Carol Mitchell, Dick Ross, Bob Rouch, Char- les Kestner, Dick Clay, Glen Bryant, Marjorie Denton, Charles Rogers, Wen- dell Bearss, Ralph Miller, Rosanna Ross, Iolene Messman, Francis Babcock. Fourth Row: Janis Thacker, Dean Tim- bers, Anna Neff, Virginia Goss, Gloria Ensign, Lois Baker, John Dick Van Lue, Fred Baker, Robert Timbers, Richard Cook, Dick Beery. Standing: Kathryn Felix, Frederick Van Duyne, Charles Helt, Nancy Newell, Carolyn Read, Frances Bearss, Phyllis Shultz, Mr. Melton, Tom Aylesworth.