Warsaw High School - Ozark Echoes Yearbook (Warsaw, MO)

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Mixed chorus gives students an opportunity to expand in music. PlTOto by Wayne Jaclcon All eyes are on Joson Gronewold and Brad Campbell as they blend o sound of Christmas on the trumpet and tenor sax. Photo by Mrs. C The Jazz Combo: A new group was added to the music department. It was a jazz combo. This combo consisted of Fred Allen, senior, on the piano, Jason Gronewold, junior! on the trumpet. Brad Campbell, fresh- man, on the tenor sax, Bobby Hart, freshman, on the bass guitar, and Mike Higgins, senior, on percussion. I thought it was one of the neatest groups in Warsaw High School, and I thought it accomplished a great deal. I am glad they made it a class, stated Fred Allen, senior. They performed in such places as school assemblies, basketball games, and many contests. Not only did they play as a whole, but each one of them would play a solo, which lasted several bars. These solos introduced a new challenge to these students. When they would play their solo, they would im- provise. This was an art of making up his or her own melody, while the rest of the band accompanied them with back- ground chords. The improvisation hel- ped the student expand their playing ability. The jazz combo played a varied selection of music from slow jazz to snazzy jazz. A number of hours went into learning how to improvise. While most of it came naturally, there was still time needed to learn the pieces. A lot of time and patience went in to putting together the right people and just the right amount of talent to successfully have the group the jazz combo. S9

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SOUND- — Many students expand their musical abilities Of all the elective classes of- fered at Warsaw High School, many students chose to enter the field of music. Many people thought that music was just an extra-curricular activity, but was a fine art. Every student needs a fine art in order to graduate. To be in music, a student could enter either vocally or in- strumentally. Vocally, there was girls ' glee and mixed chorus. In mixed chorus, students learned the staff of the scale, listened to music on a tape or record, and sang songs out of a book. Girls ' glee sang and listened to vari- ous types of music. Junior, Rachelle Hurst, who is in a vocal m usic class, commen- ted, I liked to learn about an- cient music and where it originated from. Some people wanted to dis- play musical talents by playing an instrument. The jazz band, better known as the Jazz Cats, gave the students the oppor- tunity to do so. The Jazz Cats consisted of three trumpets, two trombones, two flutes, one tuba, one baritone, one tenor sax, a piano and drums. They learned jazz pieces, they also learned to improvise, and attended many contests. Melanie Wallace, eighth grader, expressed, I liked the Jazz Cats because it gave me a great learning experience. These classes, vocal and in- strumental were taught by two of the most musically inclined teachers. They really made the music department expand in the last year. Their vast knowledge and help enabled the students to reach their summit in music. The Jazz Combo entertains the audience playing Santa Ciaus is Coming To Town. Photo by Mrs. C. 88 music designed by jason gronewold The clarinet section brings out the instajmental beauty during a Christmas concert. Photo by Mrs. C. The men In the Madrigal blend well together. Photo by Mrs. C

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Brilliant I 4 Special students make plans for bright future tion in art, said Mary. Jeanie Shipman, senior, plan- ned to go to Blue Springs to help her husband Marion and work at Kumberland Gap on weekends. I- am interested in the early American way of life, so I ' m con- tinuing work at Kumberland Gap after graduation, said Jeanie. Plans for the future became a reality after graduation for some students. Kim Johnson, junior, planned to move to Kansas City and found a job after graduation. Her later plans included getting mar- ried and starting a family. Alisa Van Luvan, sophomore, planned to live a glamorous life after graduation. She was plan- ning to go to a modeling school on the plaza in Kansas City and getting married after she gets her career started. i . .•% Mary Walker, sophomore, KUmuBnSnClGdP ' planned to go to college after graduation but was undecided as to which one. She planned to major in art and after college get married. I am interested in art and I would like to further my educa- Tm continuing worl at 11 Robbie Peterson, junior, felt that he would have enough school and after graduation planned to go to California to work as a life guard on one of the beaches so he could take it easy for awhile. ' ■ ■Mr«. Sellere walchGj over Billy Davidson while ho Is hard at vyork . Photo by Brandon Boise Keading, one ol Mark N Ioulton ' s subjects, tokes up much of his day. Photo by Bronden Boise special education designed by leanna alien