Ventura Junior High School - Log Yearbook (Ventura, CA)

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'45 t- On the gridiron, the concert stage, and in parades the Ventura junior high band has been a huge success this year, During the football season, they executed marching maneuvers never before attempted on our football field, The stunt that most of us will remember was a novel idea, Out of an airplane formed by the band, Reginald James, dressed as a Mariner pilot, pursued a Yellow-jacket, Oxnard high's symbol, and finally caught him, killing him with a flysprayer, and mournfully carried him off the field to the dirge of taps. Another outstanding performance of the band was given when the combined junior college and junior high bands gave a brilliant exhibition of marching at a junior college night game. ln the Armistice Day parade and at the Christmas preview, the augmented band of eighty-five members marched down the street in arrow-straight ranks and played music that would have done credit to any band. To climax the year's work, the band gave a brilliant performance at the annual musical assembly, held in the middle of April. Among their attractions were the difficult overture, William Tell , a trumpet sextet playing the Herbert Clark composition Flirtations , a twirling stunt in which the advanced members of the twirling class performed expertly, a novel comedy ocarino quartet, which set the entire audience to roaring with their discords and original arrangemements of their music. The band has been led in the past year by Lee Howell. i361

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Q, f UANET lillllU ANU lllllllTEllill The Ventura iunior high dance band has been a very active organization during the year i938-39. It has furnished music for all the school dances and the lettermen's hop, A selected group, who were afterward highly commended for their work, played dinner music at the Ventura Chamber of Commerce ban- quet. Their outstanding performance of the year was given in the Variety Show. Membership in this organization is wholly optional. The members are selected on the basis of their ability and desire to become dance musicians, They receive no compensation, except the musical experience. The music is furnished by the A, S. B. The 'orchestra is composed of sixty students from the seventh to the tenth grades, and it, as well as the dance band, is under the direction of Lee Howell. This musical group has participated in all of the assemblies and outstanding events this year. They also furnished the musical background for the Mariners' Variety Show. The orchestra deserves to be highly complimented for their fine performance given in the annual musical assembly, in which both the orchestra and the band performed. After playing the brilliant strains of the NC-4 march, they proved their ability to play difficult symphonies by giving a superb interpreta- tion of the Dance Macabre and Beethoven's Fifty Symphony in C Minor. As a novel presentation, a bottle band played a humorous version of Old Folks at Home, i i371