Upper Kennebec Valley High School - Boreas Yearbook (Bingham, ME)

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MUSIC in BINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL This year there are 84 in our choir, which holds rehearsals each Thursday afternoon. Our band has 39 members. For the first time officers were elected. They are: President, Dale Miller: Vice President, Franklin Woodard: Secretary, Wayne Quintg and Reporter, Io Ann Shaw. Dale Miller, clarinetist, represented Bingham in the Kennebec Valley concerts at Skowhegan and Waterville. The outstanding event of the year was the Eastern Maine Music Festival, held May 5 It was a distinct honor for our school and town to serve as hosts. Sponsored by the Lions Club, with the assistance of practically every other organi- zation in town, the Festival was a great success. For one day the population of the town was doubled, with 2000 musicians and 1000 friends as guests. After the 58 auditions for vocal groups and soloists in the forenoon, Qin which our school placed well in its three selections, Moonlight Bay, Stout-hearted Men, and Bless This House J, 25 band units, marshalled by Mr. Steven Shaw, paraded from Mos- cow Elementary School past the Judges' Stand in Bingham. There were bands from An- son, Augusta, Albion, Bingham, Belgrade, China, Dexter, Dover -Foxcroft, Fairfield, Farmington, Freedom, Gardiner, Athens, Harmony, Guilford, Hartland, Madison, North New Portland, Oakland, Waterville, Winslow, Greenville, Unity, Phillips, Skowhegan, Solon, and Charleston. We were proud almost to tears to see our little Bingham Band, led by its snappy Ma jorettes, swinging bravely along at the head of the colorful parade, followed by much larger bands in elaborate uniforms. ln the evening a composite chorus of 167 voices, under the baton of guest conduc- tor, Dr. Pichierri, gave a concert at the Quimby School Auditorium. Students from our school included in the chorus were: Nancy Cahill Anita Beaudoin Kenneth Laweryson Jean Bemis Theressa Lagasse Aurelien Roy Janice Quint Douglas Cahill Merle McCollor Jacqueline Michaud Dale Laweryson Keith Davis Michael Read David Read was featured as trumpet soloist. This was a day we shall never forget, an event which happens once in a lifetime. We wish to express sincere thanks to our director, Mrs. Marion Knight, for all she has done for music in our schools. Jacqueline Michaud '57

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tudmf Zouncil Front row: A. Beaudoin, A. Belanger, W. Quint, B. Atwood, N. Belanger. Second row: Mr. Hall, G. Tibbetts, L. Clark, J. Bemis, K. Davis. Hand Front row: L. Bray, D. Begin, C. Fosythe, C. Sl1'out, G. Tibbets, I. Carl, M. Hill, J. West, W. Shaw, S. Sterling, R. Steward, J. Guay. Second row: J. Shaw, G. Kimball, L. Miller, J. McCollor, R. Kershner, R. Rollins, D. Miller, J. Mathews, J. Michaud, N. Bushey, N. Michaud, N. Cahill, B. Lavasseur, Mrs. Knight. Third row: R. Austin, C. Beane, B. Bushey, F. Woodard, R. Kershner, W. Quint, S. Frith, D. Laweryson, L. Malloy, P. Corbin, C. Waugh

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Wzarus Front row: D. Miller, C. Bigelow, M. Read, J. Demko, S. Frith, D. Robertson, W. Quint, N. Michaud, L. Clark, F. Austin, D. Laweryson. Second row: Mrs. Knight, N. Bushey, L. Roy, B. Bigelow, C. Hovey, B. Durgin, M. Wing, J. Shaw, P. O'Neal, T. Lagasse, I. Connors, S. Pelletier, L. Chasse, J. McCollor. Third row: P. Foster, J. Lagasse, B. Atwood, J. Laweryson, D. Cates, R. Smith, U. Cyr, B. Woodard, C. Waugh, D. Smith, P. Fortin, D. Ellis, E. Leavitt N. Bumpus, N. Robinson. Fourth row: K. Fournier, N. Cahill, M. Wing, M. Pullen, N. Bel- anger, E. Moore, D. Bennett, J. Quint, M. McLaughlin, B. Levasseur, A. Beaudoin, A. Bel- anger, J. Michaud, J. Bemis, J. Mathews. Fifth row: H. Davis, E. Hunnewell, A. Cates, R. Rollins, K. Laweryson, R. Kershner, F. Woodard, R. Bossie, M. McCollor, D. Cahill, A. Roy, K. Davis, G. Tibbetts, D. Bossie, R. Kershner. juli is' Front row: C. Hamlin, W. Adams, S. Frith, M. Read, J. McLaughlin, R. Rollins. Second row: R. Kershner, H. Pinkham, E. Hunnewell, G. Stephenson, G. Tibbetts, N. Steward, D. Bossie, Mr. Dingley.