Strafford High School - Torch Yearbook (Strafford, MO)

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Music contests highlight the year A I- rating was earned at the sub-district festi- val at Ozark by the clarinet quartet. Julia Kirk- up, Tony Miner, Barbara McCubbin, and Barbara Campbell made up the quartet. There were nine solo entries at the sub-district music con- test at Ozark: Janet Handley fvocalj, Patsy Bumgarner fvo- calj, Judy Cobb fvocaly, Julia Kirkup fclarinetj, Carol Da- volt fvocaly, Madelyn Schnick fstring bassj, John Jackson Qcornetjg Jeannie Lawson fviolinj, and Patsy Gibson, seated fpianoj. Five of the nine went to the district at SMS: Jean- nie Lawson, Patsy Bumgarner, Patsy Gibson, John Jackson, and Carol Davolt. Jeannie Lawson was the only entry earn- ing a Ig this entitled her to go to the State Meet at Columbia. - 19 - r 11- Julia Kirkup accompanies the girls' quartet, composed of Barbara McCubbin, Judy Cobb, Patsy Beesley, and Jeannie Lawson, as they practice for the district meet at SMS. The girls earned al- at Ozark. JOHN FERGUSON, music in- structor, received his B. Mus. at Drury College and has done advanced work at Tulsa Uni- versity. This completes Mr. Fcrguson's first year at Straf- ford. He is sponsor of the Sen- ior class and Drum Corps.

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Jean Lilc, Linda ner, Charlesetta Janice Boyd, Caroline Cours- Lewis Payne, Elaine Schnick, er, Mary Ann Yarbrough, Da- Elkins, Wayne A fragrant smell of cedar and joyous faces cast a spell as the girls' glee club, composed of sixty-four girls, blended their voices in the Christmas program, After the Christmas program the girls' cho- ,ff rus began rehearsing for the music festival at Ozark, The girls made a II rating at Ozark, The thirty-five boys in boys' glee club sa. , 4' ,F l spent most of their time in practicing the mixed chorus songs, The mixed chorus, consisting of Hold that note! Rosemary Switzer and Brenda Jones rehearse a song for girls' seventy-five members, made a II - at the sub- district music festival at Ozark. glee club, FIRST ROW: Marilyn Comstock, Linda Forrester, Beatrice Stever, Jean Coble, Barbara McCubbin, Patsy Beesley, Jean Lile, Linda Maggard, Dana Forrester, Brenda Jones, Patsy Gibson, Janice Mal- icoat, Janet Handley, Carolyn Reed, Tony Miner, Charlesetta Wil- lis, Mary Smith. SECOND ROW: Berneice Brown, Grace Hoyer, Margaret Compton, Alice Smith, Janice Boyd, Joyce Rogers, Sha- ron'Trogdon, Paula Allen, Eileen Hammond, Barbara Campbell, Julia Kirkup, Leslie Potter, Caroline Coursey, Alice Russell, Rob- erta Morton, Donna Coursey, Nancy Bodenhamer, Zenith Jones. THIRD ROW: Patsy Bumgarner, Edith Belknap, Peggy Crist, Ruby l-Ienslee, Elaine Schnick, Donna Rowden, Martha Bishop, Luella Toothman, Paulette Rookstool, Virginia Brashears, Mary Ann Wolf, Estell Andrews.