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1st North Iowa Band Festival
Tuesday, June 23, 1936

Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa

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Clear Lake will send two musical organizations, both under the direction of John Kopecky, to Mason City to participate next Tuesday in the North Iowa band festival.

Members of the Clear Lake band, shown in the top photo, are from left to right, front row - Betty King, Jean Bailey, Minerva Jane Branson, Flornetta Hatfield, Lawrence Secory, Earl Conklin, Charles Barlow, Bill Nichols, Bernice Farran,Berdean Beckner, Roger Erickson; second row - Arnold Luker, Wilbur Wulf, Louis Kofoed, Dean Brox, Gilbert Luker, Jeanne Beckner, Marguerite Winnlle, Kathryn Pramer, Barbara McCoy, Betty Patterson, Margaret Thomas, Willis Comstock; third row - Raymond McGowan, Roger Davis, Naomi Pine, Betty Porter, Kasheen Estergard, Kathryn Hughes, Lorraine Anderson, Jeannette Wilson, Doris Jensen, Clarence Lavelle; top row - Joyce Hushaw, Herbert Cobb, Patricia Hushaw, Helen Lomen, Homer Cobb, Bill Kennedy, Gordon Coyier, Clayton Pittman Paul Anderson, Kathleen Newman, Adolph Luker.

In the Clear Lake junior drum and bugle corps, left to right, shown in the bottom photo are: Front row - Donald Lane, Naomi Luther, George O'Brien; second row - Bobby Compton, Clyde Lantz, Donald Newman, Naida Lee, Doris Erickson, Shirley Bisgrove, Virginia Fankell, Lawrence Secory, Junior Saliger, Arlene Wood, Francis Gagnon, Jack King; third row - third row - Wilber Schemell, Florine Luther, Clifton Comstock, Harry Freeman, Betty Thornbury, Junior Nelson, Floretta Hatfield, Billie Lou Barlow, Donald Swanson, Wesley Robbins, Donald Jacobson, Donald Loman, Dorothy Compton; top row - Wallace Edgar, Marlyn Lane, Bernadete Mullarky, Norma Skogaard, [illegible] Ann Olson, Wayne Knutson, Kenneth Knutson, Alberta Hatfield, Wayne Skogaard, Ralph Secory, Marilyn Butz, Donald Thompson. (Photo by Lock Kayenay Engraving.)

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A crowd estimated at 5,000 enthusiastically applauded the 650 musicians taking part in a massed band Tuesday night at Roosevelt stadium, bringing the North Iowa band festival and Iowa State Bandmasters' convention to a close. Musicians are shown seated in a huge semicircle around the bandstand on which the municipal band was seated at the time the photograph was taken. Aisles of the stadium were packed and hundreds stood on the fence. In taking this picture, one of the photographers wore a hood for protection as 11 times the amount of flashlight powder ordinarily used on a large interior scene was set off, the report being heard well above the music played at the time. (Photo by Lock, Kayenay Engraving.)

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Among the outstanding floats was that of the Music Mothers, showing "Musical Progress." Jacqueline Hanson and Bonnie Zack are holding trumpets on the float of white. A large lyre is behind them. This float was designed by Mrs. Frank Hanson and Mrs. H. E. Kennedy. (Photo by Lock, Kayenay Engraving.)

Before entering the stadium at the Roosevelt field Tuesday night for the closing band festival event, several of the bands engaged in maneuvers for ther mutual enjoyment. The Osage band, as shown above, in green and white uniforms, marching in formation.

Photographs courtesy of The Globe Gazette

Transcriptions by Sharon R. Becker, July of 2018

 

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