Union High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Union, OR)

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THE BOBCAT Paqe 21 The Prescott Technique System has been introduced to the band this year.which lias helped improve the technique of the players. In the spring of 1941 the pin for the outstanding hand member was awarded Lucille Hutchinson, with David Johansen and Eleanor Richards receiving chevrons. A medal presented to the band for outstanding work by the Buescher Band Instrument Company will be awarded to the most valuable band member at the close of the 1942 school year. Band members will 1m judged on musicianship, cooperation and service to the band. The band and groups of members in ensembles again entered the 1942 La Grande sectional contest receiving a Division 1 rating. Soloist Bob Pike, trombone, and David Johansen, cornet, also received Division I rating. The clarinet quartet. Nadine Tucker, Barbara Galle, Betty Counsell, and Lucille Hutchinson received a Division 2 rating. As a result of the band's winning a first division rating at La Grande they entered the national competition at Spokane May 8 and 9. The solists also entered. At the La Grande sectional contest in April. 1941, a Division 1 rating was awarded to the Bolxat Band. I’nion featured two instrumental soloists at the 1941 Sectional Contest. Bob Pike, trombone, and Jerry Bateman, sousaphone, who both received Division 2 rating. PERSONNEL 7ariiie j—Lucille Hutchinson. Barbara Galle. Betty Counsell, Nadine Tucker, Norma Mathews. Julia Halsey, Muriel Cline. Lorraine Mathews, Betty Lou Curl. Margaret McCauley Cornets David Johansen. John YVortman, Carolyn Wilhycombe, Darman Jones, Betty Smith, Ronne Sands, Richard Westenskow, Dorothy Godsey Trombones—Bob Pike. Earnest Bates. Robert Lerwell. Byron Ruddell Ran tones- Eleanor Richards, Ehrman Bates, Eileen Shepherd Hasses Jerry Bateman, Allan White. Beth Hall Percussions- Duane Bateman. Marvin Gulkison, Frank Orton, Cleora Mansfield Saxophones Beverly Gipson, Leora Nice. Let ha Mills. Carolyn Davis. Robert Dodd Thelma Mills, Bill Schoening Hass Clarinet Robert Baum 'lutes Mary Lindsay, La Faye Cline Oboe—Donna Lou Bingham Horns—Donna Bateman. Vivian Gray, Stuart Zaugg, Donna Van Housen. Joan Galle Drum Majorettes Eleanor Richards, Barbara Galle. Bett Counsell Directors—Mr. Don Covey, Mrs. Don Covey. Ass’t.

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THE BOBCAT Paqe 20 BAND Left to right. First row; Orton, Gilkison, Mansefield, D. Bateman, Counsell. B. Galle, Richards. Second row; Mr. Covey, Jones. Johansen, B. Smith. Hutchinson. Tucker. N. Mathews. L. Mathews. Curl. M. Cline. McCauley. Halsey. Bingham. Third row; Godsey, Westenskow, Zogg. Wortman, Withvcombe. Nice, L. Mills. Davis, Gipson, Lindsay. L. Cline. Fourth row; J. Galle, Van Housen, Gray, I). Bateman. Baum. Dodds, T. Mills. Schoening. Fifth row; Pike, Bates, Ruddell, Lerwell. Mrs. Covey. Sheppard, H. Bates. Sixth row; J. Bateman. White, B. Hall. BAND NEWS With an enrollment of forty-eight, the Union High School Bobcat Band has completed a busy, successful season with over seventy-five public appearances. The beginners’ band was composed of twenty-five pieces. A new instrument, an alto clarinet. was purchased for the band with money allotted by the school board. The band paraded for all home football games, played for high school “pep” assemblies and performed a field maneuver during the half-time period of one home football game. The Union School bus, bulging with band members, instruments, and equipment, has been a familiar sight to residents of the community this year. The season began the second week of school with the band’s participation in the colorful Westward Ho Parade at the Pendleton Round-Up. The group played for the Union County fair in October. November 11. the band accompanied the football team to Adrian and took part in the Armistice Day Services there. They participated in the Basketball Jamboree at Elgin, and also accompanied the team to Cove and Elgin. On December 22 the organization presented their annual winter concert. On the program were concert numbers by the entire band, clarinet and brass sextets, solos, and numbers from the beginners’ band. February 19 was the date of the third-annual Gvm-Jam. An effective marching maneuver was presented during the half-time period. Funds from both the concert and Gym-Jam were used to defray the band’s operating expenses.

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THE BOBCAT Paqe 22 GLEE CLUB Left to right. Front row: Keys. Stein. Mills. Halsey. Curl. Tucker, Bateman. Lindsay. Galle, Ham, R. Turner, Counsell. Mr. Wall. Second row; Scroggin, Johansen, A. Turner. Evans, Richards, Morrison, Lay, Brown, Aston, Gray, Mallory, L. Mills. . n Third row; White, Vaughn, Terrall, Thomas, Dodds, Pike, Bates, Baum, Wort- man. Orton. Last year the Glee Club received two “excellent” ratings and one good” rating when they appeared at the music contest in La Grande on April 26. The Mixed Glee Club and Girls’ Glee Club received “excellent” ratings with the boys’ group rating as “good.” The numbers that were chosen for this year’s Spring Contest were: 1. “My Heart Is a Silent Violin”—Oscar J. Fox 2. Madame Jeanette”—Alan Murray 3. “Cherubim Song” (No. 7—Bortnyansky This year the Glee Club decided to use only one group because of the lack of time and singers. They used the mixed chorus and came back from La Grande with an excellent” rating. The Glee Club had a very successful season although they appeared only a few times before the assembly and once before the Women’s Club. An operetta was not attempted because of the lack of time to prepare and lack of lead singers.