Vines High School - Odyssey Yearbook (Plano, TX)

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Here's ThaT Rainy Day, a Jazz hiT from The semi-circles made The song impressive To 1950's, was The ballad for The season. An see and here. InTricaTe arrangemenT of moving arcs and WE BUG? El? DEBBIE IT was a quarTer To 9:00 on a clear, warm Thursday nighT in SepTember. The Vines fooTball players and Their opponenTs had IefT The field for haIf-Time when ouT of The easT came a group of nearly 440 people. Dressed in purple and whiTe, They came bringing The gifT of music. They called Themselves The Vines Band. As mysTerious as These people may have appeared, They were acTually a group of ordinary 9Th and TOTh grade Vines sTudenTs. The 1983-1984 Vines Band was under The direcTion of Jerry Finnell and Fred Velez wiTh Flag Corps insTrucTor, Robin Ross. The band's quesT To bring The gifT of music began in The deep heaT of summer and conTinued ThroughouT The school year afTer school. AfTer many hours of pracTice, The firsT performance neared. ExciTemenT was building only To be desTroyedr when H was discovered ThaT Vine's firsT home game had become a non- home game in Sherman. However, Two weeks IaTer The big momenT came. The firsT show, a success, filled The sTadium wiTh good vibra- Drummer Todd Cook was a m . Tions and was a True indicaTion of The 4983-84 season. unusual shof watching The bznlagdirggfgf

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I ML Jerry Finnell has been band director for eight years. He has led post bonds to CI- most a perfect record of first division rot- ings in marching, concert and sighT-reod- ing. In his firsT year at Vines. Mr. Fred Velez directed The Concert Bond and was assis- fon'r direcTor of me marching band. Velez come from Wilson Middle School To find teaching on the high school level mighf Ieod To eating notebooks. Georgi Kelly looks up for o minuf while doing her homework befor school in The bond room

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Members 9f The 4983-84 Vines Flog Corps McKenzie, Melinda Primm. lve'rfe Morull, Schlopfer,Chrisfy Fry,TriCio Clark,Mic GFGIC-GDTOII'IS Sharon-McGee and Lisa Pel- Anna Spengler, Carolyn Wilson, Teresa Kennedy, Koy-Iyn Yearsly, Anne Pre Iegnnl, and Stephanie Houghey. Jennifer Martin, Heidi Brestin, Susan Schulik, Diana Amy Hawkins, Ann Horner, Cindy Ler The Vines High School Marching Band made its debut in lofe September of Vine home game. Excitement builds inside of Vicki Cobb before a game to the point where she can't stop grinning. k