Stanley High School - Scroll Yearbook (Stanley, WI)

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OUR JUBILEE YEAR Our school band has recently celebrated tts twenty flfth anniversary and there has smce been manlfested con slderable rnterest rn tts ortgtn growth and achtevement The hlstory of a communtty band tn Stanley takes us back to the years before 1970 when a Mr Swanson very capably dnrccted a Stanley Band Thts band added color and zest to local celebratlons but ceased to funct1on for lack of publrc support In 1921 an effort was made to rev1ve thls band A Mr Metcalf appeared on the local scene wrth a plan to or ganlze bands tn a number f near by communmes and to pool the expenses rnwolved He was an artnst not a pro moter Farlmg to get adequate support he folded hrs tents and left He has smce won natlonal dnsttncnon as a com poser of band muslc and as a leader rn the band movement wh1ch has swept across Amerxca tn the last twenty flve years One of the problems that plagued htm here was the recrutttng of new members for the band Many of those who had played rn the Stanley Band were gettxng old and could not grve the ttme requlred for band work Mr Met calf pomted out thrs fact and stressed the need for brtng mg young people into the organlzatton He felt hlgh school was the place rn whrch to recrult them and the schools en couraged htm tn that matter Thus the schools became as socrated wxth the band movement Stanley Hrgh dtd pro vrde a room for band practlce and an hour for tt and a srzeable group of young people became mterested and through that tnterest much progress was made Wtth h1s goxng tnterest nn band as a school proyect substded local ly However tt was thrlvrng elsewhere and about thus ttme a Mr Arnold worktng tn a school ln southern Wtsconsln organized an all gtrl school band The response to thrs or ganxzatton was rmmednate and eager and the group re cetved much favorable publicity some of whlch roused the crttzens of Stanley to new efforts In 1924 Mrs Boesel nee Goldene Sterlmg jomed the faculty here She taught musxc ln the grades 1n the mornlng Engltsh tn the high school tn the afternoon and chorus rn the evenrng One of her projects was a kxddy band made up of flfty chtldren from the prxmary grades When thus group all dolled up rn brrght coloured untforms and equrpped wlth a varrety of toy muslcal rnstruments appeared at a school program the publlc response was enthuslastlc so much so that she enllsted the and of several local crttzens especlally that of Mr W H Brtdgeman and the Stanley Republlcan and rnaugurated a campargn that ended ln the organtzatton of a school band and funds to support rt Mr Charles Harrls was the fxrst mstructor and rn hrs regxme a number of out standmg band musxctans were developed and excellent programs presented Thrs was the growrng parns perlod for the band and 1ts needs were many To meet those needs a mothers club was organlzed whrch gave generous ly of tts ttme to secure funds for unxforms and equrp ment When only two months old the band made nts first publrc appearance at the all school Chrxstmas pro gram December 17 1927 On january 31 1928 the band gave ltS fxrst real concert The program lncluded such numbers as Amertca My Fanth Looks Up to Thee Here We Go Waltz, and March of the Boy Scouts It agatn made commencement week rrng wrth musrc that ear In 1933 Mr Malcom Hamel took over the dnrectton of the band whxch at the ttme came under the control and management of the school admmlstratton It became an rntegrated unxt of the currrculum wnth proper txme and place allotted to xt and funds provtded for rt rn the bud PEP BAND The Pep Band IS Just the kxnd of organnzatron needed to create enthusnasm Its members all a part of the school band generously boost the morale of the school at all pep fests and home games by means of their well played mustc The Instrumenttl must furntshes musrc for all occas1ons 1' A ten prece dance orchestra has been formed to play for socnal actrvxtres as well as for the Varnety Show and Annte Get Your Gun Thls orchestra has already prov ed nts value at school dances get It soon was seen that the band was worthwhnle educa tlonally and that tt enrtched the lrves of all concerned wrth rt It soon served to false favorable attxtudes toward school actrvxtres as well as to grve the members a good medlum through whtch to use more effecttvely such leisure time as they possessed As xt gamed IH sktll pomp and pageantry xn tts publxc appearances rt earned ICS rtghtful place nn peoples mmds and hearts For the past two years the Stanley School Band has operated wtth new faces and new leadershrp Evtdcnce shows that nt ts gomg strong reaching and tnfluencmg a large number of young people and carrymg out a worthy program All success and honor to nt May xt carry out the tradttxons of a glortous past C W D 41 H , A -I - . . ,rl fv- . . . ' l - . R 2 'z ' ' .- ' - , . . , Y .. . . lhdl' 1' :- . 1. . '3 rf hd Nd . n ., x Q l'1 . . C y ' n 1 a . ' '

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froth-'-'53 nd BAND PERSONNEL Saxopbonex Pam jankoslu Nancy Thorpe joan Haugen Ida Mae Jandrt Marjorie Krueger Dick Wiles Drums Nancy Elliott Bill Grabon Louis Schumacher 'Dick Swanson Bats Clarinet Beatrice Meyers B Clarmels Sonja Broberg Sandra Milligan 'Lora Lee Gibbs Marilyn Swanson Patti Curtis Diane Gibbs Jerri Ann Webber Betty La Marche Sharon Maves Beverly Gilday Ann Steivang Karen Veeser Hugh Hayes Lawrence johnson Flutes Gretchen Solie Connie Broberg Dido Overgard Horns Lucille Pozdell Ixeldaray Stangret Carol junker Marjorie Broeren Bane: Don Broeren La Vern Gruber Bill Potter Comets Jerry Wiles Deanne Thorpe Mary Huus Gordon Long 'Neil Richards Clayton Aumann Pat Zier Duane Hanold Dick Krueger 'Keith McCaffery Frances Smxglz Barilonex Mitzi Elliott ,Ioan Hagen Gladys Heian Marilyn Sneen Trombone: Kirk Milligan Karen Henderson Anna Mae Gruber Richard Heian Carolme Gilday Roger ohnson janet Jacobson ' Not on picture wma HWS SCHOOL 3 B59 COICFT . Dugqtof D Blix -'Aan ni' l in-xr' l ' 1 and or X u. x uw al Veena o'i1w so HIV 'ful-l 4f 'rrl'g lwglri 'L .-!5 L Cree- ' ,,' ml'- ' tu-OX-- ' k :X dm., noni, turf lc . H- dl 1 -Lies: .11 ., .. f'.r1f' ng.auHSwr1U l. n-- - ' V ry ' a bar of WCW ,,,,.4-en-N v L H1- ,Da crm: ,uri r.11!-N E , 55. B nl' ' press ' so fhvrpiv me . r mn-a 3 K 'f ' 'V .rand - Rnd .Agua-' Mn! ans . lsr!! ,ar- ni-mv S lla' nl! The members of the senior band derive benerit from the opportunities for social contact which such membership affords The ability to accept respon sibility the spirit of co operation and leadership, poise before an audience, and self discipline are a few of the worthwhile character traits developed through membership. Fulfilling an obligation to the school and the public, members of the band perform in two formal concerts a year, the Christmas Program and the music festival at Eau Claire, as well as on Clover-belt Pre- Festival, at all home football and basketball games, at Homecoming, Fall Festival and Memorial Day parades, and summer concerts. Two concerts were given this year in neighboring schools. with

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VALUES In God s hlgh heaven and m Hxs earth These thmgs I hold of matchless worth Health and a task the dreams of youth Beauty and law and love and truth in--'IHQK 42 7 7 , . TNR hx F. o ,, s f S4 t fa jxgk ,- , lv 'll X .N , xi, ' I Q. , . 11 :R , ,M I VL