West Muskingum High School - Tornado Yearbook (Zanesville, OH)

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West Muskingum High School Majorettes are, from L to R: Kathy Baker, Karen Williams, Pam Schuster Cindy Jones, Cathy Mittchell, and Suellen Perone. Majorettes The 1968-69 West Muskingum High School Majorettes did a fine job of leading their band on to victory in state contests as well as boosting the morale of the football and basketball teams during the respective seasons.

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VEST V297 MMM sd h ,. Marching Band After a week 's vacation in June, the 1968-69 West Muskingum Band hit the road to success, Practicing twice a week, the band marched to victory in the many parades and festivals held during the summer months. In July, West was invited to compete in the American Legion Convention Parade in Columbus and took fourth place in the two and one half mile procession. As a result, West will participate in the 1969, 4th of July ceremonies in Columbusg and as guests of the American Legion will go to Cleveland for the State Convention and 50th Anniversary celebrations and contests on Iuly 18 and 19th, 1969. In August, the band went to camp to work toward a successful football seasong and successful it was - September - the trip to the Marietta Band-o-Rama proved rewarding as a dress rehearsal for the Zanesville Bonanza of Bands, Out of the 10 bands entered in Class A, West came home with the third place trophy, Marching season rounded out with the trips to Dennison University, Baldwin-Wallace College and the Parade of Champions in Cambridge,

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One of the year 's genuine highlights was the presentation during the first week in May of My Fair Lady - the truly great musical by Lerner and Lowe. The show was a combined effort with the students of both the instrumental and vocal departments working under the direction of six teachers. Mr. Gibson and Miss Folan directed the vocal and instrumental efforts, respectively, Mrs, Herreman designed the sets and super- vised their detailed painting while Mr. Finley designed the lighting and was in charge of the set construction. The dramat- ic coaching was done by Miss Judy Nehls, a student teacher in speech. Also, Mrs. Atkinson helped coordinate make-up and Mr. Ledfort served as a technical advisor The complexity of scene changes, the size of the cast, and the challenge of the music and staging made My Fair Lady the largest undertaking in the school's history. And, the dedicated efforts of the 130 students involved made it one of the most impressive and satisfying productions this area has seen, Later in the show Doolittle comes to the home of Professor Higgins in search of his daughter or rather her ransom In explaining his plight he leaves Higgins, Pickering and Mrs Pearce completely dumbfounded I don t eat more than the