Thomas Carr Howe Community High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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JUNIOR TOOTERS AND GRACE NOTES The B Band is the organization which, under the direction of Mr. Robert Burford, trains less experienced pupils for the A Band. Helping to till in the ranks ot the marching A Band is a duty they always perform willingly. They also play for Open House and help with the Band's Evening of Music. lt is the ambition of every one of these musicians to be able to say someday, My uniform is number --. You should see how it fits, but l like it anyway. Those sweet-voiced ensembles that you heard in the Pleasant Run Revue were the Howe Octets. ' The girls sang l Dream of You With Julia Moore as soloist. I've Been Working on the Railroad was sung by the boys. Both groups also sang in the May Music Festival and the Evening of Music. Directed by Mr. Frank Watkins, they have sung for Com- munity Fund dinners, church organizations, the Veterans' Hos- pital, several lodge groups, and the Child Conservation League. B BAND BACK ROW-Marvelyn Downey, Nancy Trueblood, Fred Mertz, Dick Berkle, Glen Myers, Iohn Purcell. SECOND ROW-William Stafford, Rollyn Sias, Phillip Stevens, Don Kil- bourne, Zoretta Byfield, Robert Lacy, Gerald Wilson, Guy Doyal, Richard Blair. FRONT ROW-Earl Green, Don Meek, Charles Bronstrup, Richard Eickotf, Richard Paul, Ioann Hicks, Mary Lou Eade, Claude Stuart, Frank Lee. BOYS' OCTET Homer Pence, Mike Wagoner, Iohn Purcell, Alan Taylor, Phillip Stevens, Larry Phillips, Dave Cook, Henry Bobbe. GIRLS' OCTET Mary Ellen Dahl, Marilyn Hudson, Carol Simons, Christena Gainey, Frances Matthews, Patricia Cullings, Iulia Moore, Bobbie Ieanne Taylor. 1.9 S.. iff, x...

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MUSIC, MAESTROl One of the oustanding organizations ot the school is the Howe Choir, under the direction ot Mr. Frank S. Watkins. The 70 students enrolled in the choir were selected from the boys' and girls' glee clubs. During the year they sang tor Open House, P.-T. A. programs, Christmas assembly program, Music Festival, Senior Vespers, and Commencement. Outside performances included programs at Crispus Attucks and local churches, a Christmas program on the Circle, and the Easter Sunrise Service on the Circle. BACK ROW-Robert Horn, Iohn Somerville, lames Stewart, Henry Bobbe, lohn Lofton, Har- old Crawford, Roland Becker, Richard Dis- more, lohn Purcell, Homer Pence, Robert Baker, Richard Schelm, Edward Hail, Mike Wagoner. THIRD ROW--Alfred Powell, lerry Iones, Donald Rodenbeclc, Larry Phillips, lerry Keltch, Bruce Noll, Grant McBroom, Raymond Clark, Robert Suhre, Warren Roth, Richard Gilmore, lack Otto, lohn Essex, Richard Enochs, Robert Hellwege. SECOND ROWfMary Dahl, Doris Bade, Alice Hatcher, Margaret Collins, Mary Alice Spoon, Margaret Simmons, lanette Stafford, Carol Newcomer, Bobbie Ieanne Taylor, Carol Simons, Betty Kirkham, Martha Boite, Marianne Adams, Lavena Watson. Barbara Hall, Marilyn Cranston, Rita Miller, Carolyn Ealy, Marilyn Hudson. FRONT ROW--Margaret johnson, Marjorie Little, Alice Fath, lulia Moore, Ieanne Gott- berg, Marilyn Morrison, Ieanette Dixon, lanet Hook, Betty Cotton, Claire Vestal, Katherine Smith, Betty Payton, Nancy lohns, Patricia Cul- lings, Patsy Parrish, Christena Gainey, Barbara Pletcher.

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HERE COMES THE BAND! Here comes the band! were the familiar words heard as the band came out onto the field at the home football games. With their 48 marching pieces, they made quite a showing this year. The band's Evening of Music was given again this year in March. Other school functions for which the band played were their own as- sembly program, other assemblies, for which they often played a spe- cial number, Open House, the May Pageant, and Commencement. Patients in the Cold Springs Road Veterans' Hospital and Billing's Hospital were entertained by the band. ln order to create an incentive for younger school children to study instruments, the band members played at several neighborhood grade schools. Among some of their featured numbers were Repartee by David Bennett, with Barbara Weesner as piano soloist, and Andante Cantabile by Beethoven. From the first assembly program to Commencement, the boys and girls in the Howe band served the school to the best of their abiilty and worked to keep up Howe's reputation for good musicianship. ' A BAND BACK ROW-Ronald Cook, William Rawlin, Leo Terry, Walter Black, Richard Smith, lack Spearing. FIFTH ROW-Walter Miller, Homer Pence, Iack Edgington, Ronald Ioyce, Kent Demrnary, Dan Meininger, lack Rogers, Ernest Watson. FOURTH ROW-Donald Rodenbeck, lack Barker, Iames Ewing, Sam Hiatt, Kent Pierce, Allan Darling, Robert Mogle. THIRD ROW-Harry Ware, David Heath, Patricia Claxon, Fred Harbold, Dick de Langlade, Richard Dunn, Robert Vtfare. SECOND ROW-Robert Hoffman, George Gill, William Weber, Dave Cook, Dana Crapo, Robert Ebert, M. G. Le Vay, lames Kaye. FRONT ROW-Lois loslin, Phillip Stevens, Ioe Iohnston, William Duryea, Ross Gooch, Ieanette Ross, Barbara Weesner, Richard Keppler, Marilyn Morrison, Ioyce Mitzner.