LEWES HIGH SCHOOL BAND
1943
From the 1943 Lewes High
School Beacon year book Christine Dunlap gives us the
1943 Band under direction
of Miss Mary Fox.
With only 39 members
the band gathered for the fists session last fall in the music
room
and elected officers.
Hilliard Palmer was elected president, Bill Hastings, vice
president,
Christine Dunlap,
secretary treasurer, Jim Short and Tom Morris, librarians.
Under the
capable direction of Miss
Mary Fox, the band practiced diligently and on December
7, 1942 made its first
appearance when it played at the Christmas Fair held by the
PTA
in the school auditorium.
Since then several musical numbers have been learned including
overtures and patriotic
marches which will be part of a spring concert Miss Fox has in her
plans. Everyone in the
band enjoyed working with our new teacher and had a successful
year. Member are ;
Clarinets, Bill Hastings, Betty Guerin, Ervin Lang, Bob
Maull,
Sarah Carpenter, Phyllis
Jefferson, Sara Rckards and Maclyn Culllum.
Flutes, Joann Greenspun
and Alfred Graves.
Trumpets, Peggy Hocker,
Jack Morris, James Short, Paul Hudson, Heaster Bennum, Jack
Lynch and Louis Michalski.
Trombones, Hilliard
Palmer, Bill Hocker, Doug Connor, Halsey Knapp.
Saxophones , Marilou
Willard, Tom Best, Alfred Best, Bill Joseph, Ralton Dennis.
French Horn, Kathleen
Baynum and Jim Palmer.
Tuba, Gene Perry
Bell Lyre, Norma Lee
Stauffer
Drum Major, Kenny
Mitchell. Drums, Bill McCabe, Donald Marsh, Jim Lehman, and
Joe Hudson. Bass Drum,
Paynter Lynch and Jack Freeman.
Baritones, Tom Morris and
Christine Dunlap.
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