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

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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.

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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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BIGGER AND BETTER EVERY YEAR Bigger and better every year, has become the slogan of Mr. lohn Shepard and the Howe orchestra. With an enrollment of 40 members, they are establishing a fine reputation for themselves, and they hope someday to have a full symphonic instrumentation. STANDING-Ross Gooch, leanette Ross, Mr. lohn Shepard, directorg Ronald Ball, Claude Rinehart. SEATED-Phoebe Wright, lris Stone, lane Reed, Alice Hatcher, Beverly Hendrickson, The orchestra Was heard for the first time this year at the annual Open House. They presented their annual assembly program the day before Thanksgiving. They also played for a P.-T. A. meeting, the Foot- light Revelers' play, the senior play, the May Music Festival, the All- City Orchestra Festival at Shortridge, and Senior Vespers. ludith Rinheard, Iohn Shreve, Ed Hasse, Marion Crabb, Phyllis Ottinger, Paul lump, Walter Miller, Patricia Christenberry, Barbara Teague, Kathryn Merkel, Homer Pence, Robert Craig, loyce Mitzner, Donald Rodenbeck, Walter Black, Richard Smith, Ronald loyce.