Valley Forge High School - Archive Yearbook (Parma Heights, OH)

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They Say It With Their Music Orchestra members rehearse a performance. Mr. Robert Cowden, the orches- tra director, feels that, The orchestra this year is the finest in Valley Forge's historyf' There are sixty-eight members this year as compared to thirty-two members when the orchestra was first organized. In addition to giving a fall concert, and two spring concerts, the orchestra also played in the State Orchestra Contest and at Baccalaureate Exercises. Selected members of the orchestra took part in the Lake Erie League Festi- val in February. Officers for 1964-65 were Cheryl Swanson, presidentg Jan Hern, vice-president, Cathy Basen, sec- retary, and Marty Cool, treasurer. ORCHESTRA BRASS, HARPS: Bright, Cappallo, Oben- auer, Cool, treasurer, Roush, Holden, Ryan, Kapela, Swanson, presidentg Black, Dziedzicki, Barry, Tinay, Beattie. FLUTES, OBOES: Hern, Haburchak, Mackert, Bray, I-lartman. CELLOS: Hruby, Epstein, Bertonaschi Zingheim, Santell, Wessler. PERCUSSION: Schultz Shibley, Goodyear, Hartman. STRING BASSES: Rind- fleisch, Petitto, Zimmer, Stevens, Schumann. CLARI- NETS, BASSOONS: Kreutzer, Cameron, Hasselschwert, Dregalla, Basen Sollberger, Rea. VIOLAS: Ratzloff, Vitcha, Brand, Cira, Beal, Titus, Reecl. VIOLINS: Broggi- ni, Krafcik, Hosic, Kubit, Schultz, Brown, Garrett, Kling, Sipko, Patla, Schulze, Chappell, Armbruster, Hannan, Bubuli, Schaedel, Wallace, Stead.

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SYMPHONIC BAND FLUTES: Mackert, Haburchak Hosic, Ingersoll, Stevens, Dehn, Jones, Hern, Guenther Dieball. CLARINETS: Dregalla, Hasselschwert, Boyda Strawhacker, Hruby, Moser, Ferencz, Jerome, Lanzer Dimas, Bittel Groencke D'ubasaks. TENOR SAX , , J , TROMBONE: Vensky, Harper, Valent, Barry, Dzied- zicki, Black. ALTO SAX, BASSOON: Calkins, Liguori Anderson, Gibson, Rea, Sollberger, Basen. HARP? Beattie. OBOE: Duke, Michalske. BASS CLARINET ALTO CLARINET: Muha, Voelkel, Kreutzer, Ferretti Chesney, Ammiller. TYMPANI, PERCUSSION: Schultz Hartman, Goodyear, Schultz, Shibley. TRUMPETS Shibley, Leiby, Black, Smeyak, Niemi, Obenauer, Cool Mehrling, Langston, Slivka, High, Gerace, Schwarzer FRENCH HORN: Gerding, Roush, Chaffin, Ryan Holden, Zizka, Swanson. TUBA, BARITONE: Monoc Kispert, Thumson, Tinay, Coyner, Slade, Zizka, Hoelter Mr. Petrella. leads a rehearsal of the Symphonic Band. The Symphonic Band, under the direction of Mr. David Petrella, performed concerts in December, March, and May. Selected mem- bers of the band competed in the Greater Cleveland Solo and En- semble Contest, and the entire band participated in the Ohio Music Education Association Dis- trict 4 Contest. The band was selected by the North Central Auditions Committee to perform a concert and demonstration at Indianapolis, Indiana. A perform- ance at Commencement Exercises completed the year. I a u s

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They Play To Please and To Entertain DANCE BAND BOTTOM ROW: Vensky, Harper, Gibson, Holden, Smeyak, Mehrling, Obenuaer, Cool. THIRD Hruby, Boyda., Djubasak, Geotz. SECOND ROW: Tinay, ROW: Valent, Barry, Dziedzioki, Black, Hartman. Woodwinds keep music in the air.