Sumner High School - Sumarian Yearbook (Sumner, IL)

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-..-,xw-rg x -sf-. I .L '--JJ.: V I.. 4 . .. - The first music activity for ,the year 1952-1955 occurred Gctcber 17 when the Southland Quartet appear- ed through the sponsorship of the Band Parents Associa- tion. Chl: group of parents is dedicated to the task of raising wcney to support the band by purchasing unih forms and y7A6P items, Having this quartette to put on some gooo qnlpel music was one way of raising funds. A few lays later, Octoter 20, the Samuels Music Co. put on an instrumental display for the purpose of getting new beginning students. New and rebuilt in- struments wcre bought by students in the grade school. The band gave its first public appearance with the first home basketball game of the season, November 7. The game season included about a dozen games at home which for each one the band played. A German band was organizedtn supnlemert the other ensemble groups - brass sextotte and clarinet trio. The personnel is as follows: German band First clarinet Second clarinet Cornet Trombone Tuba Brass Sextette First cornet Second cornct French horn Baritone Trombone Tuba J , 'TL :, Clarinet icir Q-'I 'rr f-114 - ,YL ,s wk 171 J gil :tctncy V - an - .494 -dl ' 1-C'l.J r 'v F' .. . . - -, ' Qne Jarman bail QLGYQG for P play on Novcwtgf 40, i Donna Mean JoAnn, Fortney Dan KcVickar Larry Vowells Terry Povle Jerry Poole Myra Jones Nancy Miller . Gilbert Deimel Larry Vowells Terry Poole first time Qt the 7'c4or