Southside High School - Southerner Yearbook (Fort Smith, AR)

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Q 59' and lift it seems to be the motto ofsenior Steve and juniors GingerAllen and Carol Jones as they paper for Band Queen funds. Deep in concentration fleftj is Laura Stanulis and deep in conversation fbe- lowj is Linda Gilham and Carol Perry as they talk of fund raising projects. Band Queen tickets, cake, doughnut, rummage, and yard sales, raffles on all sorts of things, paper and bottle drives were a few of the methods used by this year's Band Queen contestants and their committees in order to raise money to gain the title of 1977-78 Band Queen. For the past 14 years senior girl band members have been given the opportunity to run for Band Queen. The girl who, with the aid of 20 band mem- bers, is able to raise the most money during the drive is crowned Queen in a pre-game ceremony at the first home football game of the season. This year Suzanne Westerman, escorted by senior drum major Bill Dempsey, was crowned by Stan Cate, band director, in a ceremony before the Southside!Conway game. The five other girls vying for the title this year were Donna Joyce, Shirley Lairamore, Marcella Morton, Sherry Pryor, and Kathi Roark. Another record breaking amount of 310,500 was raised by the band this year. This money was used to pay for uniform bills, buy new music, pur- chase new instruments, repair the older horns, and charter buses for out-of-town trips. This year the band also used the money that was raised from Band Queen to finance a trip to Texarkana where they performed as the Arkansas Representative Band in the Four States Band Mas- ter Convention held last January. X, I 0 3 A , Band Raises Record tg, Amount of 510,500 H Enjoying the brass and glass table won in a raffle are Jan- et Didion and Pam Turner. All dirxndvles and smiles is Su- zanne esterman, escorted by Bill Dempsey, as Stan Cate crowns her.

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F W, 1. Shrouded in fog, Mr. Stan Cate watches the early morning practices in preparation for the Fayetteville game, September 23. 2. Kim Myers, Terri Hunter, jun- iors, and Steve Jenkins, si tior, sit for instructions as to when to be at Northside. 3. Mr. Richard Peer, band direc- tor ofthe sophomore band, aids marching band members to remember their entrances during practice for the Northside-Southside game in October. 4. Band members strive for perfection in their diamond drill formation for the homecominggame againstRussellville onNovember 4. 5. Caruth Alexander, junior, practices rudiments for the upcoming All-Region tryouts. 6. Lance Perry, Billy Bob Dempsey, seniors, and junior David Green, demonstrate the wrong way to unload a flintlock pistol at the band's annual Halloween party. 7. Senior bass players Tommy Hough, Alan DeWitt, David Keeny, and David Bohen- kamper, sophomore, maintain a brisk step as they go into concert formation in expectation of the first game against Conway on September 9.8. Some band members also doubled on flags rduring football season. Here they perform to the theme song from the movie Rocky at the Texarkana game, October 14. K X Southside represents Arkansas Rot Four-States bond convention f HWhen I'm playing in band, I feel different from when Iam in any other class. An intense pride in what I am doing and a desire to do it Well comes over me. I suppose thatts what itls all about, thatts what it takes to be in band. I strive for perfection and never settle for second best? Ask Steve Young, sophomore, about band and this is what he'1l tell you. In a sense, this is the way many of the members feel. Lance Perry, senior, puts it this way: I am proud to be a part of this great association, especially on out-of-town trips when We get to represent our school. And this year Lance and his colleagues received an oppor- tunity to display their talents on behalf of, not just Southside, not just Fort Smith, but the entire state of Arkansas. This convention occurred in Texarkana, Texas, on Janu- ary 6 and 7. Its full title was the Midwinter Conductors Conference of the Four States Bandmasters Association. However, most people just refer to it as Four States. At this convention, one band was invited from Arkansas, one from Louisiana, one from Oklahoma, and one from Texas. They were chosen, according to Mr. Richard Peer, sophomore band director, by a group of composers and directors who heard about them and their reputation as a band by word of mouth. Concerts were prepared and given in front of an audience that consisted mainly of band directors from all over the four-state area. Southsidels sophomore and symphonic bands played back-to-back with a group from Shreveport, Louisiana. Keith Bateman, sophomore, looking back on Four States, fcontinued on page 523 Concert formation attained, the band pours out Police Story at the Texarkana half-time show.