Valdosta High School - Sandspur Yearbook (Valdosta, GA)

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Rhythm, Melody Add Tuneful MISS JANE MEEKS plays the melody to Hi Ho, Nobody Home for a chorus class. Miss Meeks received her B.A. in humanities, with emphasis in music, from VSC. She teaches fifth and sixth period choral classes. Every school day the VHS band building re- sounds with throbbing rhythms and melodic voic- es as the band and choral classes practice. In these two music programs, musically gifted students find outlets for their talents. Miss Jarte Meeks guides the two choral groups in the study of part singing and theory and in singing for personal enjoyment. Chapel programs and two concerts give the choruses opportunities to perform before audiences. Band classes learn a varied repertory of classi- cal and marching music. They play at football games, parades, and special concerts. As an innovation this year, a pep band added life to winter basketball games. Judy Powell and Barbara Burch, sixth period glee club librarians, sort and file new musical scores. 28

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to Perfect Useful Skills MRS. TOM MOODY times her class in a 5-minute exercise for speed and accuracy. Mrs. Moody attended Georgia Southern College where she received her B.S. in education. She teaches typing I and II. Gene Tucker puts his DE training into practice as he sells school supplies to David Bennett in the Southern Stationery and Printing Company's retail department. Typing students Tommy Dove, Joy Smith, Barbara Loeb, and Faye O'Quinn catch up on their homework before school one morning. 27

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Note to Curriculum Band members Ted Minnick, Richard Bland, Fred Baugh, Jimmy Norton, Terry Scruggs, Mike Tyson, and Phyllis Thomas race to put away their instruments before dashing to classes. In a last minute practice session, drum major Richard Bland directs the blast off of a rocket formation. Hands uplifted, MR. FRANK BUTENSCHON prepares to lead the band during fourth period practice. Mr. Butenschon was graduated from Auburn University with a B.S. in music education.