Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
April 17, 1963, Page 35

Parade route set

Kickoff for the financial campaign for the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival was set for April 23 by the committee in session Tuesday at Stacy'.

M. R. (Bud) Lackore, chief executive of the Mason City Chamber of Commerce, discussed with the committee a special seal to commemorate the event.

The committee decided that original communities which participated in the first band festival will be honored at this year's event with special reserved seat section and charter membership recognition.

Plans also were discussed for the presentation of the "Mac" award, highest award given to a school band director in the nation, to Paul Behm at the festival. Carleton Stewart was appointed by General Chairman Bob Douglas to make arrangements with the school authorities for the presentation.

Parade route for the Silver Anniversary Festival will follow the route set for the first time last year from KGLO to Federal Avenue and south on Federal to the Shopping Center.

The committee also discussed various parade arrangements. It was voted that no type of commercial float should have any part in the parade. Recognition prizes will be awarded floats and it is hoped that each of the original communities will enter a float.

Plans also were discussed for a Silver Anniversary float and a new float for Miss North Iowa. The committee also discussed the new robe for Miss North Iowa.

The engraved sterling silver bowl, gift to Miss North Iowa for 1963, and chain bracelets, gifts for each of the Band Festival Queens for 1963, were shown to the committee.

Behm was appointed chairman for arrangements of concerts in Central Park during the day. Arrangements also were discussed for each of the participating bands and for the guest band, last year's national championship band, Lockport, Ill., which is returning for this year's festival.

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
May 10, 1963, Page 10

Ludvig Wangberg is the director of the Clear Lake Drum and Bugle Corps and LuAnn Cookman is the drum majorette. Personnel includes (left row, front to back) Debbie Hinkle, Beth Ann Herker, Cal Post, Doug Bieber, Timmy Becker, Mark Doebel, Mark Andrews;
(2nd row) Jill Davis, Mary Reder, Candace Meyer, Marilyn Sears, Jerry Wass, Steven Whitehill, Leonard Meints, Randy Starkey;
(3rd row) Jan Berge, Diane Ward, Sally Kennedy, Steven Goranson, Bobby Jones, David Larson, Elvin Klein, Tom Humburg;
(4th row) Jo Berge, Jane Collen, Martha Johnson, Ron Short, Fredric Peterson, Ricky Renberg, Lowell Grimm, Bill Wistey;
(5th row) Luann Hansen, Martha Erickson, Sue Ramson, Gayle Nickerson, Galen Schram, Lyle Hill, Sterling Washburn, Randy Dennis;
(6th row) Jill Frisbie, Kathy Floy, Richard Gansen, Rodney Ott, Tom Denney, Dale Dorseth, Randi Anderson.

Not present were Jack Colburn and John Schramm. Miss Grace Anderson is the supervisor and principal of Lincoln School. All members are third and fourth graders.

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
May 28, 1963, Page 7

CLEAR LAKE - The Clear Lake High School marching band will be decked out in the new uniforms for the Memorial Day activities Thursday morning.

The appearance of the band is expected to bring out many hundreds of watchers. The uniforms are black with a gold overlay. Purchase of the uniforms was made possible through the support of the community in the Music Mothers fund drive.

Memorial Day activities begin with a 9:30 a.m. call to assembly at the lakefront. The Navy Mothers memorial service is at 9:40 a.m., followed by the parade to the cemetery for the program.

  Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
May 31, 1963, Page 5

IN NEW UNIFORMS -- Linda Budolfson, drum major, leads the Clear Lake High School Boys' Marching Band up Main Street during the Memorial Day parade. Linda and the band members are wearing new uniforms for the first time. The uniforms, black with gold overlay, were purchased with funds received from community activities sponsored by clubs and organizations. The Music Mothers spearheaded the drive.

  

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The "Mac" Award, highest award given to a school band director in the United States, will be presented to Paul Behm, director of the Mason City High School Band, at the North Iowa Band Festival as part of the Silver Anniversary event.

The award is given by First Chair of America Yearbook and American School Band Directors Association (ASBDA) in honor of the late A. R. McAllister. McAllister was founder and director of the Joliet Township High School Band, Joliet, Ill.

The trophy is a statuette of McAllister, cast in bronze standing on a base. The statuette is 12 inches high. Wording on the base states:

"MAC presented to Paul Behm for his effective efforts in maintaining the high ideals, music standards and professional leadership set by the late A. R. McAllister, eminent American bandmaster and outstanding leader in the music educational field of America."

Behm was a charter member of ASBDA. He is a member of the board of directors of the National Band Directors Association.

Behm joined the faculty of the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich. The enrollment for the camp's 35th anniversary season was 1,400 campers from 42 states and five foreign countries. Behm was one of 125 faculty musicians and artists from all over the country at the country at the National Music Camp.

Behm is head of the department of the high school band and orchestra in Mason City. He received his bachelor of philosophy degree from Creighton University in 1927. He earned his Master of Science degree in education and music from the University of Southern California in 1948. He has taken graduate work at the University of Iowa and the Vandercook School of Music.

The Mason City High School band director taught at Logan, Grinnell and Iowa City before coming to Mason City.

The "Mac" Award was first announced in November 1950 by Roy M. Martin, editor of First Chair of America. The award is publicized and presented through Forrest McAllister, son of the former Joliet band director and editor of The School Musician magazine.

The School Musician Magazine is the official magazine of the American School Band Directors Association, the National Catholic Bandmasters Association, Phi Beta Mu and the Modern Music Masters Society.

In the first announcement of the award, Martin wrote: "First Chair of America, the national honor yearbook for high school bands, orchestras and choruses, will present Mac Awards to high school band directors. It is proposed to make the Mac Award of equal importance to the school music directing field as the Oscar Award is to the movie field and the Emmy Award to the television field."

A. R. McAllister organized the Joliet, Ill., band in 1912, starting with 17 used instruments and 17 boys without any previous musical training. He developed the Joliet band into the finest high school music organization in existence.

He was defeated only once in competition during his career, this being in 1930 when Senn High School of Chicago won the national contest by six one-hundredths of a point. Even in defeat, McAllister showed his greatness and took the Joliet band to the headquarters of the Senn band and serenaded them in tribute to their success.

He came back in 1931 to win first place by five full points and went on to win first place three times in succession. His band was the only one to win both of the trophies offered by the National School Band Association.

McAllister organized the National School Band Association, serving as president 14 years.

His deep interest in school bands, high standards of musicianship, high moral characteristics of pride with humility, his determination that other people's ideas should be heard, considered and approved when worthy, all made him a great leader of the school band movement.

McAllister died in 1944. The "Mac" Award will be presented in his honor Tuesday to Director Paul Behm at the noon luncheon for the visiting bandmasters and their wives at the Hotel Hanford.

Lester Milligan, the honorary chairman of the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival, is the one to whom this year's high school musicians and band directors pay tribute - Mr. Band Festival himself.

A musician at heart, after the manner of an ex-piano-playing president, Milligan plays the piano as a hobby, for the sheer enjoyment of playing.

The North Iowa Band Festival, too, is one of his hobbies, started more than a quarter of a century ago - for the sheer enjoyment it would bring to thousands of youngsters in North Iowa and Southern Minnesota.

Family upon family in this two-state area know only too well what the North Iowa Band Festival has meant to youngsters - some who have grown up in the 25-year period and now have youngsters if their own coming to this annual event.

Not only the North Iowa Band Festival, but Aviation Day, the North Iowa Builders Exchange, the Building and Home Furnishing Show, the Centennial Anniversary of Mason City, the Iowa Centennial, the Community Chest, the Community Concert Association, the Mason City Chamber of Commerce and its Christmas parties, Kiwanis Club, the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Senior Citizens, even the Women's Division of the Chamber of Commerce have all been hobbies of his - steered by the man who likes to drive for the sheer enjoyment of it.

In the words of W. Earl Hall, consulting editor of the Mason City Globe Gazette and last year's general chairman of the North Iowa Band Festival's biggest celebration:

"If I were to be asked who has contributed the most to the growth and well-being of this community during the four decades I have served as editor here, I would have a ready answer:

"Lester Mulligan!

"Since that day in 1923 when he took over as secretary of our Chamber of Commerce, he has been a constructive influence hereabouts.

"His gift of leadership has been unique. He has led from behind rather than out in front of his troops. The idea spawned in his mind has been transmitted so unostentiously to the mind of others that about as often as not the recipient would regard it as his own brain-child. I know because more than once I have been on the receiving end.

"Lester Milligan has had and deserved the respect and confidence of our citizenry. His influence for the good has pervaded every segment of our population and our economy. I have yet to hear anybody speak ill of him. That's a commentary that can't be made of many men of action.

"Any institution of higher learning - most of his Alma mater - would be honoring itself by honoring one as worthy as Lester Milligan."

A native of Stanberry, Mo., the state where pianos are played as a hobby, Honorary Chairman Milligan was the only child of Robert H. and Anna G. (Cunningham) Milligan.

When he was 11 years of age, the family moved to Iowa, where he attended high school at Clarinda and Iowa Simpson College at Indianola, where he took a Liberal Arts course. He later attended the National Institute for Commercial and Trade Executives at Northwest University at Evanston, Ill.

While still in high school he was reporting school events for the Clarinda weekly newspapers. Following graduation, he went to work as reporter and advertising solicitor for the Clarinda Herald.

He worked for the Clarinda Herald and the Clarinda Journal during vacation periods while attending Simpson College. In 1918 he became secretary of the Greater Clarinda Club.

He entered the Chamber of Commerce field in Clarinda and continued with the work until his retirement, except for one year, 1921-22, when he was with the Loar Independent Chautauquas, Bloomington, Ill. He came to Mason City as executive of the Mason City Chamber of Commerce in March 1923.

Mulligan served as Community Chest executive from 1923 through 1946. He also served as secretary of the North Iowa Builders Exchange from the time it was arranged until his retirement. He also served as secretary of the Mason City Junior Chamber.

He was secretary-treasurer and bulletin editor of Iowa Chamber of Commerce executives and as officer of the American Chamber of Commerce executives six years and served as president in 1955.

A member of the Kiwanis, he served as secretary 28 years, s a member of the Shrine and Consistory, was a member and chairman of the Iowa Centennial Commission in 1946 and past president of the Mason City Community Concert Association. He is also a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and the Methodist Church.

Honorary Chairman Mulligan was married to Vera L. Merritt August 30, 1916, at Glidden, Iowa. They have a daughter, Mildred Jean Milligan, Mason City, and a son, Howard Merritt Milligan, Quincy, Ill.

Last December Milligan received a scroll honoring him for 40 years of service to the Mason City Chamber of Commerce, for his service to the many organizations of the city, and for his personal association with the Iowa Development Commission seeking to broaden Mason City's future industry.

Of all the many activities Honorary Chairman Milligan has enjoyed, the North Iowa Band Festival has been his prize. When Mr. Band Festival sat down at the piano to play, the heart strings of thousands of youngsters were touched and the people of Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota remembered.

This is why he is Mr. Band Festival on the Silver Anniversary of the one and only original North Iowa Band Festival, the outdoor event that has enjoyed a quarter of a century of sunshine, beauty and music!

Transcriber's Note: Lester Howard Milligan. born March 12, 1893, died in Mason City, Iowa, July 12, 1977 at age 84 years. His wife, Vera LuElla (Merritt) Milligan, was born August 17, 1891, and died at the age of 92 years on July 1, 1984. Their daughter, Mildred Jean "Millie" Milligan, was born January 29, 1927, Mason City, and died March 2, 2018 at the age of 91 years. Their son, Howard "Merritt" Milligan, was born March 16, 1918, Clarinda, Iowa, and died at the age of 73 years on October 5, 1991. They were all interred at Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery, Mason City, Iowa.

The Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival in 1963 marks a quarter of a century of music, which has seen Mason City become not only famed on stage and screen, but also the producer of the world's largest high school band festival.

That, of course, was last year's when Meredith Willson was honored by his home town. During the 25 year period many celebrities have been honored at this event, Karl King, the Bil Bairds, Carleton Stewart, Frederick C. Ebbs and others, of which Lester Milligan, this year's honorary chairman, is not the least.

To honor 25 years of success with the North Iowa Band Festival, this year's festival committee found a challenge - to follow up the biggest festival with one of the best. It will do its best - if no more than carry on a tradition of the outdoor event that has never been rained out in a quarter of a century.

The thousands of high school musicians and their families who will come to Mason City June 11 have little idea of the planning and work that goes into this huge show each year. But each community has come through with talent, beauty and showmanship that makes this committee proud of North Iowa's and Southern Minnesota's biggest joint event.

This is Mason City's big open house. It is everybody's show, including the merchants who make it possible, the townspeople the surrounding communities and all of the youngsters in the area. June 11 will be Band Festival Day in Mason City. Here are the people who have planned its Silver Anniversary.

Bob Douglas is general chairman of the festival. Lester Milligan is honorary chairman. Other members of the executive committee are Paul Behm, C. E. Blanchard, P. O. Brunsvold, Dan Klempnauer, Enoch Norem, Ray Seney, Carleton Stewart, John D. Vance, Doug Sherwin, Ken Kew, Carl Wright, Warren Krafka, Bud Lackmore, Ron Reynolds, Dr. L. W. Swanson and Jack Carlson.

Jim Bradley is the men's chairman of the queens committee. Mrs. William Turner, chairman, and Mrs. J. B. Chauncy, co-chairman, head of the hostess committee for the queens.

Serving as hostesses are Mrs. Les Johnstone, Mrs. William Oertel, Mrs. E. J. Hermanson, Mrs. C. W. Steneker, Mrs. Mrs. L. W. Lichtenberger, Mrs. Robert Logan, Mrs. Max Sawyer, Mrs. Don Casey, Mrs. Boyd Hook and Mrs. Art Fischbeck.

Serving on the men's committee are J. J. McDonald, Warren Clark, Jim Sheehy, Dick Morel, C. E. Blanchard, Joe Bittner, Bob Baker, C. W. Swartling, Bill Egli, Leon Barness, Jim Pearson, Bob Foster, Larry Frisch and Wally Bachman.

Dr. Ron Masters is parade chairman and Bob Jones, co-chairman. Don Friest is in charge of convertibles and Rod Wade, floats. Glen Haydon is in charge of radios. Bob Mcgee is in charge of concessions.

Jim Wright is in charge of policing the parade. Jo McCuskey is in charge of bands for the parade. Mrs. Paul Behm will be in charge of the bandmaster's noon luncheon arrangements.

Don (Red) Blanchard of KSMN will introduce the queens in Central Park. Master of ceremonies at the park will be Roman Crosklaus, president of the Toastmasters, and Dick Morel, Fred Fenchel, C. Clarke, Ted Enabit and Harold Younger.

Ed Gage is chairman of the judges for the queen candidates. Judges are Richard (Dick) Currie, Lions Club; Robert (Bob) Mott, Kiwanis Club; Fred Hart, Exchange Club; John Fieseler, Jaycees, and Murray Lawson, Rotary Club.

Stan Reynolds will be charge of telephones and communications. Herb and George Radio will handle the public address system for Central Park and Roosevelt Field. Chief Clifford J. Pierce is in charge of street decorations.

Mayor George Mendon is chairman of the committee for the platform and seats in Central Park. Tom Teas is in charge of distribution of tickets and supplies. Al & Dick will have the service truck. Rollo C. Keithahn is in charge of car parking. Charles Kraft is in charge of bleachers.

Chief Leo Risacher will be in charge of police duties. The 40 & 8 will be in charge of ushering, with Carson Peterson chairman. Byron Seymour will have the standby program in case of rain. Robert (Bob) Mott will be in charge of electrical connections in Central Park.

Leonard Rowland will be in charge of Boy Scouts; Paul Tantow, tent in Central Park; Combs Adverting, signs; Keith Sandborn will deliver checks to the bandmasters. Bill Wagner and the Rotary Club will be in charge of getting bands into the stadium at night.

The Lions Club will furnish ushers for Central Park. Kiwanis Club will furnish ushers for general admission to the night show; the Exchange Club will usher for the reserved seat platform. The Junior Chamber will be in charge of the queen's throne. Tyler Stewart will by charge of the flag raising.

Glen Haydon will be in charge of First Aid; Lein Snell, ambulances. A. E. Smith will be charge of communications at the night show. City Transit will have bus service for the queens. Harley Klemas and Maynard Nelson will be in charge of special shows at the theaters. John Calhoun is in charge of swims at the YMCA and Lucille Dustin at the YWCA.

Mrs. Paul McIntyre is chairman of the hostesses at the schools from the Mason City Woman's Club. Ken Kew will be master of ceremonies at Roosevelt Field. The North Iowa Citizens Band Club will assist in communications for the parade. Paul Behm is in charge of visiting bands.

CAROLYN DICK Miss Hampton Carolyn Dick is Miss Hampton and the first entry in the 1963 North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was selected by the band. She has played in the concert band, marching band and instrumental groups four years. She also has been in the girls glee club, mixed chorus, vocal groups, and was cheer leader, assistant editor of the school paper, class secretary and co-editor of the annual and a National Honor Society member. She is the daughter of Charles S. Dick, an insurance agent.		CARNA MADETZKE Miss Elmore Carna Madetzke will be Miss Elmore at the Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She is a member of the band, chorus, F.H.A., F.T.A., G.A.A., Student Council and National Honor Society for three years. She has appeared in dramatics and is president of the band and F.H.A., vice president of her class and secretary of the Student Council. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Madetzke, R.F.D. 1, Elmore, Minn.		JOYCE ANN WEIDLER Miss Fredericksburg Joyce Ann Weidler will be Miss Fredericksburg at the Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band, of which she has been in the percussion section four years and played bell lyre solo two years. She is a member of the mixed chorus, girls glee club, girls trio and sextet, is a division one soloist and one of 64 selected voices in the Cedar-Wapsie Conference Chorus. First team guard in girls basketball, she also is a Student Council member, class officer, and on the newspaper and annual staff. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Karl Weidler, who farm near New Hampton.		VICKI SORENSEN Miss Goldfield Vicki Sorensen will be Miss Goldfield at the Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She was a twirler four years, played bass drum in the concert band and sang in the mixed chorus and glee club. Other activities included cheerleader, softball, journalism, junior and senior plays. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Sorensen, who farm near Goldfield.		LINDA WILKINS Miss Clear Lake Linda Wilkins will be Miss Clear Lake at the North Iowa Band Festival. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She is vice president of her class, editor of the annual and program chairman of the National Honor Society. She is treasurer of Hi-Tri, secretary of the choir, member of the Pep, Spanish and Science Clubs, golf team and band. She is drum majorette in the marching band, a cheer leader and member of the girls glee club and ensembles. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Wilkins, Clear Lake. Her father is sales manager of Northwestern States Portland Cement Co.
BARBARA JEAN KALKWARF Miss Aplington Barbara Jean Kalkwarf will be Miss Aplington at the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She is secretary of the band, saxophone soloist and member of the saxophone quartet. She is active in glee club, softball, basketball and track. She is part-time secretary for the principal, student director of the school play, librarian and member of the annual staff and an honor roll student. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Kalkwarf, who farm near Aplington.		VICKI GORNERT Miss LeRoy-Ostrander Vicki Gronert will be Miss LeRoy-Ostrander at the Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band of LeRoy-Ostrander High School. She is active in F.H.A., Pep Club, annual staff, National Honor Society, band and chorus. She is a music department representative in the Student Council and secretary of the Pep Club. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gronert. Her father is a bus owner and operator.		LU ANN GERLACH Miss St. Ansgar Lu Ann Gerlach will be Miss St. Ansgar in the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the band. An "A" student, she has been active in band, chorus and solos, both vocal and instrumental Division with I ratings. Homecoming Queen and Queen of Hearts, she also was Iowa's DAR Good Citizen. She is active on the school paper, speech, National Honor Society, cheerleader and class officer. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Gerlach. Her father is line superintendent for the Cedar Valley Electric Cooperative.		DELORIS DAHLE Miss Britt Deloris Dahle will be Miss Britt at the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the band. She is secretary of the band, plays cornet in the concert band and is a twirler in the marching band. She plays in the brass sextet and swing band, sings in the mixed chorus, girls sextet and girls chorus and was Miss Britt at the Algona Festival. She is a daughter of Clarence Dahle, service station operator.		KAREN JACOBSON Miss Bricelyn Karen Jacobson will be Miss Bricelyn at the Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was selected by the Bricelyn, Minn., High School band. She plays clarinet, drums and piano and sings in the chorus. She was cheerleader and editor of the school paper. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Malvin Jacobson, who farm near Bricelyn, she plans to attend Mankato State next year to study nursing.
JANE SCHMIDT Miss Titonka Jane Schmidt will be Miss Titonka at the North Iowa Band Festival. A senior, she was elected by the band members. A twirler in the marching band, she is also a member of the girls glee club, mixed chorus, girls trio and is a soloist. She is active in declamatory work and class plays, is a class officer and member of the library staff. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schmidt, Titonka. Her father is a farmer and electrician.		CAROL BOUTELLE Miss Northwood-Kensett Carol Boutelle will be Miss Northwood-Kensett at the Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the band. She is president of the concert band and member of the band, stage band, sax quartet, and All-State Band, concert choir and small vocal groups, G.R.A., declam and annual editor. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Boutelle, Northwood. Her father is a salesman.		LINDA ABELE Miss Klemme Linda Abele will be Miss Klemme at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She plays first cornet in the band, is a soloist and plays in ensembles and sings in the chorus. She is a member of the dance and pep bands. She was chosen Homecoming Queen. She is a daughter of Harold Abele, who farms near Klemme.		JUDY LEMKE Miss Dows Judy Lemke will be Miss Dows at the Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the high school band. She is a member of the marching, pep and concert bands and plays in the mixed quartet and clarinet quartet. She sings in the trio and mixed quartet and is a soloist. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. LaVern F. Lemke, who farm near Dows.		BARBARA FLO Miss Thompson Barbara Flo will be Miss Thompson at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She is active in basketball, marching band, concert band and dance band and was a member of small groups in the state high school music contest. She is editor of the school paper, on the annual staff and is a member of the Latin Club. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Flo, farm near Thompson.
RUTH A. DAVIDS Miss Buffalo Center Ruth A. Davids will be Miss Buffalo Center at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the band. She is in declamatory work, girls glee club, mixed chorus and concert band. She is a majorette in the marching band and is active in dramatics, Future Teachers of America and Language Club. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Davids Jr., who farm near Buffalo Center.		CLAUDIA ZIEGLER Miss Rapidan Claudia Ziegler will be Miss Rapidan at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A junior, she was chosen by the Rapidan Sportsman Club. She plays baritone horn in the band, sings in the chorus and with the madrigal singers, is a district music contest winner and declamatory winner. She also is active in G.A.A., F.H.A. and 4-H. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Ziegler, who farm near Good Thunder, Minn.		DOLLY JOHNSON Miss Alden Dolly Johnson has been selected to represent Alden High School, Alden, Minn., as Miss Alden in the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A junior, she was chosen by the members of the band. She has been active in the Student Council and as a cheer leader. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Johnson, Alden, Minn. Her father is a factory worker in Albert Lea, Minn.		JANIS MENNENGA Miss Belmond Janis Mennenga will be Miss Belmond in the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the band. She is in the band, chorus, National Honor Society, Student Council, Science Club and annual staff and was president of the junior class and Future Homemakers of America. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al Mennenga of Belmond.		DEANNE KUBLY Miss Ventura Deanne Kubly will be Miss Ventura in the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She is Homecoming Queen, president of the Pep Club, football cheerleader and active in basketball, band, girls glee club, mixed chorus, newspaper and annual staff and Student Council, a class officer and Sweetheart Queen attendant. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kubly, who farm near Garner.
KAREN HONSEY Miss Emmons Karen Honsey will be Miss Emmons at the Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She is active in the band, chorus, cheerleading, F.H.A., Student Council, and class plays. She was Homecoming Queen attendant and is a newspaper correspondent for the Albert Lea Tribune. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Honsey, who farm near Emmons, Minn.		DONNA LOU BARBER Miss West Bend Donna Lou Barber will be Miss West Bend at the Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival at Mason City June 11. A senior, she was elected by the band. She plays flute in the band, flute trio and flute quartet and sings in the chorus, girls glee club, vocal trio and solos. She is a member of the first team in basketball. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Barber, who farm near West Bend.		CAROL CAGLEY Miss Charles City Carol Cagley will be Miss Charles City at the Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the band, is a member of the mixed chorus. She wrote the CCHS DAMUCO Song. She is a member of the Office Education Club and the annual staff. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cagley, Floyd. Her father is an Oliver Corporation expediter.		SANDRA GARNASS Miss Manly Sandra Garnass will be Miss Manly at the North Iowa Band Festival. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She is in the concert and marching bands, a band officer and state contest soloist. She plays first chair solo cornet, is in the chorus, glee club and small groups, is cheerleader, in class plays, and is on the annual and newspaper staffs. A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Garnass, she is an honor student. Her father is postmaster at Manly.		SHARON SMITH Miss LuVerne Sharon Smith will be Miss LuVerne at the Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She plays in the concert band and is a twirler in the marching band. She is a member of the newspaper and annual staffs. She is on the softball team and is a varsity cheerleader. She has been active in plays. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Smith, who farm near LuVerne.
DIANE D. POOLMAN Miss Clarion Diane D. Poolman will be Miss Clarion at the Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She plays first chair tenor saxophone in the concert and also plays in the dance band and honor band. She is a member of the girls glee club, girls sextet, F.F.A. Sweetheart and cheerleader for wrestling team. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merle Poolman, who farm near Galt.		BARBARA PAULSON Miss Eagle Grove Barbara Paulson will be Miss Eagle Grove at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the Eagle Grove band. She is a member of the band, choir, Pep Katz, school paper, Future Nurses Association and the G.A.> She is editor of the annual. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Paulson of Eagle Grove. Her father operates a restaurant.		MARCIA STREETER Miss Lake Mills Marcia Streeter will be Miss Lake Mills at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the Lake Mills band. She is a member of the band and secretary, member of the mixed quartet and soloist, member of the chorus, Future Teachers, annual staff and newspaper staff. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Streeter. Her father is a meat cutter.		ROSALYN JENSON Miss Woden-Crystal Lake Rosalyn Jenson will be Miss Woden-Crystal Lake at the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A junior, she was elected by the band. She is a solo clarinetist in the band, in instrumental ensembles and won top awards in music. She is in the mixed chorus and girls glee club, softball and basketball, president of the band and student council, and student director of the junior play. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Jenson, who farm near Britt.		LINDA RYGH Miss Rake Linda Rygh will be Miss Rake at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the band. She is a member of both band and glee club and head majorette in the marching band. A member of the student council, she also has been former class president. She is a cheer leader and winner of the John Phillip Sousa award as an outstanding band member. She is a daughter of Lloyd Rygh, who farms near Bricelyn.
KAREN JENSEN Miss Ringsted Karen Jensen will be Miss Ringsted at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A sophomore, she was chosen by the band. She is active in basketball, speech, mixed chorus, girls glee club, band and ensembles, is the class president and is on the newspaper staff. She also is a member of the Ringsted Study Club. She is a daughter of Ervin Jensen, who farms near Ringsted.		SUZANNE WILLIAMS Miss Cresco Suzanne Williams will be Miss Cresco at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was chosen by the Crestwood High School band. She is active in mixed chorus, girls glee club, band, dramatics, journalism, swing band, small vocal groups and is an accompanist. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emryn Williams, Lime Springs. Her father is an automobile dealer.		ANN HAWF Miss Riceville Ann Hawf will be Miss Riceville at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival in Mason City June 11. A senior in the Riceville Community High School, she was elected by the band members. She is active in girls basketball, music and the band. She is a daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Herschel Hawf, Riceville. Her father is a minister.		PAMELA WESENBERG Miss Garner - Hayfield Pamela Wesenberg will be Miss Garner-Hayfield at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was elected by members of the Garner-Hayfield band. Her school activities include band, chorus, student council, speech, dramatics, future teachers, annual staff and editor of the school paper. She is a daughter of Mrs. Viola Wesenberg, Garner.		PATRICIA LERUD Miss Lyle Patricia Lerud will represent Miss Lyle at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by members of the Lyle band. Her school activities include F.H.A. officer, senior class play, band and National Honor Society. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert C. Lerud, London, Minn. Her father is an implement dealer.
BETTY WALK Miss Kanawha Betty Walk will be Miss Kanawha at the Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. Her school activities include mixed chorus, girls glee club, clarinet trio, pep band, clarinet quartet, Jinx staff, all-state quartet, class play, cheer leader, girls quartet, Homecoming Queen. She is the daughter of Mrs. Fred Walk and the late Fred Walk of Kanawha.		MARGARET RICE Miss Rockwell - Swaledale Margaret Rice will be Miss Rockwell-Swaledale at the North Iowa Band Festival. A senior, she was elected by the band. She is National Honor Society secretary, Student Council secretary, member of the concert, marching, pep and dance bands, flute and drum ensembles and band president. She is in the mixed chorus, basketball, declamation, dramatics and clubs. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mr. Carrol E. Rice, who farm near Swaledale.		JANICE HILL Miss Ayrshire Janice Hill will be Miss Ayrshire at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A junior, she was chosen by members of the school band. Her activities include band, chorus, F.H.A., basketball and M.Y.F. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hill of Ayrshire. Her father is postmaster of Ayrshire.		RITA HANSON Miss Ruthven Rita Hanson will be Miss Ruthven at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the school band. She is active in basketball, mixed chorus, band, co-editor of the newspaper, on the annual staff and is a member of the clarinet trio and quartet. She was a Homecoming attendant in her junior and senior years, student council representative, Harvest Queen candidate and junior class secretary. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Hanson, who farm near Ruthven.		CARYL LARSEN Miss Swea City Caryl Larsen will be Miss Swea City at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the school band. She is active in chorus, girls glee club, girls quartet and trio, is an accompanist, has Division I rating in clarinet and voice, is active in speech and band and is drum major. She plans to major in music in college. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey C. Larsen who farm near Armstrong.
BARBARA JEAN DURBIN Miss Hubbard Barbara Jean Durbin will be Miss Hubbard at the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the high school. She is active in the mixed chorus, girls glee club, marching band, concert band, Dixieland Band, Crazy Six, Pep Band, dance band and small groups. She is president of the mixed chorus and vice president of the band, editor of the annual, president of the Pep Club and in class plays. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Durbin, who farm near Hubbard.		CAROL HENRIKSEN Miss Armstrong Carol Henricksen will be Miss Armstrong at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was elected by the band. She is in band, basketball, mixed chorus, girls glee club and speech. She took Division I ratings in the state speech contest and also in the state music contest with a flute solo. She is governor of Hawkeye Girls' State. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Henricksen who farm near Armstrong.		PAT QUARN Miss Osage Pat Quarn will be Miss Osage at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She plays trombone in the concert band, is drum majorette, on the student council and member of the National Honor Society. She also is a member of Thespians and Hi Times, has been in class plays and is a cheerleader. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loren Quarn, Osage. Her father is a contractor.		MICHELE PALMER Miss Twin Rivers Michelle Palmer will be Miss Twin Rivers at the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the band, of which he is head majorette. She is in the mixed chorus and girls glee club and is a soloist. She has participated in G.A.A., girls athletics and is a cheerleader, student director of plays, member of the annual staff and had an entry in the annual science fair. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Palmer, Bode. Her father is a Standard Oil agent.		BETTY SCHRADER Miss Wells Betty Schrader will be Miss Wells at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the Wells High School band. She is trombonist in the band, is a feature editor on the school paper and writes school news for two newspapers. She was a Homecoming Queen attendant and is one of the honor students of her class. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Schrader, who farm near Easton, Minn.
MARILYN CALKINS Miss Alden, Iowa Marilyn Calkins will be Miss Alden, Iowa, at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She plays flute and has received several Division I solo ratings in the state contest. She sings in the mixed chorus and girls glee club and in ensembles and has several Division I ensemble ratings. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer D. Calkins, who farm near Iowa Falls.		PEGGY WARD Miss Meservey - Thornton Peggy Ward will be Miss Meservey - Thornton at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She is active in the band, pep band, basketball and softball. She was on the honor roll four years and is in the pep club, newspaper staff, speech, class plays, annual staff and student council and is a class officer. She is a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Frank Ward. Her father is an osteopathic physician.		VICKY EZARSKI Miss Corwith - Wesley Vicky Ezarski will be Miss Corwith - Wesley at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 at Mason City. A senior, she was elected by the band. She is a cheerleader and twirler and in the Pep club, pep band, concert band and saxophone quartet. She is also active in basketball, soft ball, girls track, glee club, mixed chorus, annual staff and class plays. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ezarski who farm near Corwith.		ANDREA WOODRING Miss Plainfield Andrea Woodring will be Miss Plainfield at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was chosen by member of the Plainfield Community School Band. She is active in the band and mixed chorus and participates in small groups, and is a pianist. She plans to attend Gates College in Waterloo and become an airline stewardess. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Woodring, who farm near Plainfield.		KATHLEEN HAALAND Miss Frost Kathleen Haaland will be Miss Frost at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was chosen by the Frost High School Band of which she is a member. She also is in the chorus, is annual editor, an honor student and member of the National Honor Society. She also participated in publishing the school paper. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Haaland, who farm near Frost, Minn.
CATHY ROTH Miss Ackley - Geneva Cathy Roth will be Miss Ackley - Geneva at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A junior, she was elected by members of the band. She plays alto saxophone in the band and is in the mixed chorus, girls glee club and small groups as is a soloist. She is in the drama club and National Honor Society. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roth, Ackley. He is a druggist.		MARJORIE BAUMGARD Miss Burt Marjorie Baumgard will be Miss Burt at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was elected by the band. She plays clarinet in the concert, marching and pep bands and in small groups in contests. She also participates in vocal groups and is on the honor roll. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Baumgard, Burt. Her father is a blacksmith.		PAM HOLT Miss Northeast Hamilton Pam Holt will be Miss Northeast Hamilton at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was elected by the band. She is a fine student in school, active in instrumental music, basketball, track, newspaper and yearbook. She is a daughter of Agnes Holt, Blairsburg, who will teach next year in the Northeast Hamilton School.		NANCY WING Miss Albert Lea Nancy Wing will be Miss Albert Lea at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was chosen by the band members. She plays flute and piccolo in the school band and orchestra and also is a pianist. She plans to major in music at St. Olaf College. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Wing, Albert Lea, Minn. Her father is a mathematics instructor.		JULIANN OLSON Miss Spring Valley Juliann Olson will be Miss Spring Valley at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was chosen by the Spring Valley High School Band. She has participated in the band, chorus, girls ensemble, National Honor Society, newspaper staff and is a class officer. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Olson, who farm near Ostrander, Minn.
CALISTA DANKBAR Miss Bancroft Calista Dankbar will be Miss Bancroft at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was chosen by members of the band. She plays baritone in the band, is a graduate student in piano, member of the chorus and several Catholic youth organizations. She is a daughter of Bernard Dankbar, Bancroft, who is employed at Welp's Hatchery.		REBECCA ALLAN Miss Allison - Bristow Rebecca Allison will be Miss Allison - Bristow at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was chosen by members of the Allison - Bristow Community School Band. She is active in the band and as a cheer-leader. She has worked as a nurses' aide and plans to attend the University of Iowa next fall to become a nurse. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Allan, Allison. Her father is owner-operator of the Chevrolet-Olds Garage.		ROXANN BALLWEBER Miss Keister Roxann Ballweber will be Miss Kiester at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was chosen by the Kiester High School Band. She is interested in social work and feels there is much to do for others. She is interested in working with people in all walks of life. She is a daughter of Dixie Ballweber, Kiester, Minn.		COLLEEN CRABTREE Miss Ellendale Colleen Crabtree will be Miss Ellendale at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A junior, she was chosen by the Ellendale High School Band. She is a member of the band and ensembles, vice president of F.H.A., and is a pianist. She plans to take nurses training in Rochester, Minn., after graduation. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Crabtree, who farm near New Richland, Minn.		DIANE MENNEN Miss Dumont Diane Mennen will be Miss Dumont at the North Iowa Band Festival. A senior, she was chosen by the band. Her activities include baton twirler in the marching band, tympani player in the concert band, mixed chorus, girls glee club, guard on the basketball team, member of the annual and newspaper staffs, vice president of the student council and football homecoming queen. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mennen, who farm near Dumont.
LINDA FICKEN Miss Nora Springs - Rock Falls Linda Ficken will be Miss Nora Springs - Rock Falls at the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the band. She plays first chair clarinet in the band, is in the clarinet quartet and All-State Band, girls basketball, secretary-treasurer of her class, student council representative, member of the annual staff and valedictorian of her class. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Ficken, who farm near Mason City.		KATHY McCABE Miss Canton Kathy McCabe will be Miss Canton, Minn., at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was chosen by the Canton High School Band. She is a member of the band, chorus and F.H.A. and is the band secretary. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gene McCabe of Mabel, Minn. Her father is a storekeeper.		BEVERLY ENGEBRETSON Miss Sheffield - Chapin Beverly Engebretson will be Miss Sheffield - Chapin at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was elected by the band. She is a member of the band and small ensembles and plays bass clarinet. She was co-editor of the annual staff two years. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Engebretson, Sheffield. Her father is a carpenter.		PATRICIA BRAY Miss Garrigan Patricia Bray will be Miss Garrigan at the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She is a member of the band, cheerleader, annual staff, in the play cast three years and winner of the drama award, winner of several speech awards and a National Catholic Honor Roll graduate. She is a daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Bray, Algona. Her father is a medical doctor.		CAROL ANN JOHNSON Miss Boone Valley Carol Ann Johnson will be Miss Boone Valley at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the Boone Valley Band of Renwick. She is a member of the marching and concert bands, mixed chorus and brass sextet and is a cheerleader, active in speech and the senior class play. She is a daughter of Lewis S. Johnson, who farms near Hardy.
SARA JANE GREEN Miss Greene Sara Jane Green will be Miss Greene at the North Iowa Band Festival. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She is a twirler in the marching band, plays string bass in the concert and dance bands and violin in the Wartburg Symphony, She has Division I ratings for solo work and was in the All-State Orchestra. She is in the National Honor Society, participated in debates and plays and district champion two years. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Green, Greene. Her father is a contractor.		CARMEN COOK Miss Lakota Carmen Cook will be Miss Lakota at the North Iowa Band Festival. A senior, she was elected by the band. She is a member of the band, first chair clarinet with Division I rating in state vocal solos and speech, first team forward in basketball and participated in softball and golf. She was elected Iowa Homemaker of Tomorrow, is on the honor roll, representative girl of her class and valedictorian. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cook, Lakota. Her father is superintendent of Lakota Consolidated School.		JANICE ANDERSON Miss Graettinger Janice Anderson will be Miss Graettinger at the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was elected by the Graettinger band. She is active in the mixed chorus, concert and marching bands, and was Graettinger's queen for the Estherville Band Festival. She is the class secretary, president of the Pep Club, active in F.H.A. and softball and Homecoming Queen. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Anderson, who farm near Graettinger.		JULIE BRANSTAD Miss Forest City Julie Branstad will be Miss Forest City at the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A senior, she was chosen by the Forest City High School Band, chorus, girls glee club, madrigal singers, "Spotlight Singers," instrumental and vocal ensembles. She is a class officer, cheerleader and member of the FTA and Latin Club. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nels Branstad, Forest City. Her father is a lawyer.		JOYCE SUTER Miss East Chain Joyce Suter will be Miss East Chair at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was chosen by the band. She is active in the band and choir, is business manager of the annual and reporter on the school paper "Hi-Lites." She plans to attend Mankato State, Mankato, Minn., and become a teacher in secondary education. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Suter, who farm near Guckeen, Minn.
		KATHLEEN AGENA Miss Algona Kathleen Agena will be Miss Algona at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11. A senior, she was selected by the Algona Community School band. She is first chair flute in the band, in the symphonettes, modern choir, girls chorus, mixed chorus, F.H.A., Cadettes, debate and forensic activities. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Agena, Algona. Her father is a banker of the Iowa State Bank.		DIANN WILKANS Miss Cal Community Diann Wilkans will be Miss Cal Community at the North Iowa Band Festival. A senior, she was chosen by the band of the Coulter, Alexander and Latimer community. She is active in the concert band, swing band, pep band, instrumental and vocal small groups and is a majorette in the marching band. She is a member of the mixed chorus, girls chorus and varsity choir, annual staff, class play and student council. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wilkans, who farm near Alexander.		SANDRA LOU STEENE Miss Glenville Sandra Lou Steene will be Miss Glenville, Minn., at the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival June 11 in Mason City. A junior, she was chosen by the Glenville High School Band. Her extra curricular activities include band, chorus, newspaper staff and annual staff, and she is a cheerleader. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Steene of Glenville.

Transcriber's Note: Biographies for the following queen candidates were not available:
Miss Blue Earth, Lavonne Klein; Miss Clarion, Diane Poolman; Miss Cylinder, Betty DePue;
Miss Ledyard, Carol Dontie; and Miss Rockford, Jean Vorhes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  The line of royalty for Miss North Iowa is as follows:

1938		Miss Shirley Morgan		Sheffield.
1939		Miss Marjorie Smith		Clarion.
1940		Miss Charlotte Anne Foss		Belmond.
1941		Miss Alberta Joslyn		Clear Lake.
1942		Miss Bethel Lashbrook		Osage.
1943-45		No Festival Was Held		The War Years.
1946		Miss Marilyn Fowler		Greene.
1947		Miss Elaine Broessel		Monona.
1948		Miss Shirley Eyler		Clarion.
1949		Miss LaDonna Gleiden		LuVerne.
1950		Miss Kay Cayou		Livermore.
1951		Miss Audrey Madson		Hampton.
1952		Miss Gwendolyn Johnson		Ventura.
1953		Miss Jacqueline Maulson		Manchester.
1954		Miss Judy Spangler		Corwith.
1955		Miss Sandra Knight		Rockford.
1956		Miss Phyllis Merritt		Osage.
1957		Miss Sue Tenold		Northwood.
1958		Miss Jan Clark		Bancroft.
1959		Miss Joyce Ann Schutter		Buffalo Center.
1960		Miss Dorothy Schott		Joice.
1961		Miss Elaine Douglas		Osage.
1962		Vicki Ross		Britt.

 

  

LOOKS LIKE FOOD - Preparations for feeding the Lockport, Ill., High School Band are in full swing at the YWCA. Mrs. Frank Alhelm (left), a board member, and Mrs. Leo Benson, second vice president, prepare vegetables while Mrs. J. W. Hanley, president, bends over a kettle. The Lockport band will have all meals except breakfasts at the YWCA by arrangement with the Mason City Chamber of Commerce, the Band Festival sponsor. They will be quartered in Willowbrook area homes as they were last year and will be served breakfast in the homes Tuesday and Wednesday mornings.

  

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Caravan welcomes Miss North Iowa

Clear Lake - Linda Wilkins, the newly-crowned Miss North Iowa, received a rousing welcome when she arrived in her home town Tuesday evening after the North Iowa Band Festival.

The welcoming committee included an honor guard with the colors, formed by members of the VFW Post, which was in session Tuesday evening. The firing squad fired volleys intermittently to add to the celebration.

A caravan of cars, including two bus loads of band members, escorted her car to the Junior High School Auditorium where she was introduced. Supt. E. O. Berge made a brief introduction after which Miss Wilkins said she was certainly happy to have represented Clear Lake in the festival.

The new Miss North Iowa, who was graduated two weeks ago from Clear Lake High School, ranked sixth academically in the class of 90. She was one of the graduation speakers, using the topic of the use of freedom for posterity. A member of the National Honor Society, she received the Danforth Award for Citizenship on Awards Day.

Her father, William Wilkins, sad the family had "nine memorable happy years in Clear Lake, which will always be a very dear part of our lives." Wilkins expressed gratitude to "every one in the school system for everything they had done for our daughter and all the members of the band who have been so kind and generous."

"As a band we are very proud of you," said band director Ludvig Wangberg. Linda was drum majorette and played the tympani. He and Robert Logan, assistant director, expresses confidence that they knew she would be crowned Miss North Iowa.

The band returned to Clear Lake immediately after the stadium show and escorted by police, marched through the business district, where they were joined by the color guard. The band returned the 10-mile distance to Mason City to greet Miss Wilkins after the TV show, then escorted her back to Clear Lake.

Following the program at the school, a horn-honking procession of automobiles went to the Wilkins home, 519 W. 17th St., where friends joined in a gala reception. Mrs. Wilkins, who was named Mrs. Homemaker of Minnesota in 1951, served coffee.

The Wilkins family has been active in community activities since moving to Clear Lake from Minneapolis nine years ago. Mrs. Wilkins served as president of Music Mothers the last year and headed the campaign to purchase new uniforms, which the band wore in the parade.

Mr. Wilkins is serving as chairman of the building plans and construction committee for the Congregational Church.

Linda's brother, Todd, has completed his freshman year at Cornell College. Her other brother, William Jr., was graduated this spring from Cornell. He will be married Saturday to Miss Susan Bower.

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Milligan, Behm honored at bandmasters' luncheon
By Carl B. Wright
Globe-Gazette Staff Writer

It was a day for champions Tuesday at the bandmasters luncheon of the Silver Anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival:

Lester Milligan, Mr. Band Festival himself, founder of the festival and its director for 25 years.

Paul Behm, director of the Mason City High School Band and winner of the national Mac Award for highest service among high school directors.

Joyce Rice, champion baton twirler of America.

Meredith Willson, who was last year's honored guest at the festival.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IT WAS ANNOUNCED AT THE LUNCHEON, THAT WILLSON, NATIVE MASON CITYAN AND AUTHOR AND COMPOSER OF "THE MUSIC MAN" WOULD RECEIVE THE EDWIN FRANK GOLDMAN AWARD FOR HAVING DONE THE MOST FOR BAND MUSIC IN THE LAST YEAR.

Paul Yoder, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., president of the American Bandmasters Association, here for the leading of the massed bands at the night show of the festival, announced the decision of the board at the noon luncheon.

The award probably will be presented to Willson at the next national convention of the bandmasters in San Antonio, Tex., Yoder indicated.

John Philip Sousa, in whose band Willson was a piccolo player, was the first to receive the citation. He was the first life-president of the organization. The citation is given to those who have rendered the most service in the cause of music, according to Yoder.

"Last year's wonderful 'Music Man' Marching Band Competition at the North Iowa Band Festival did more for the marching bands of America than any single event that has happened in America in many a year," said Yoder.

"It was obvious that sound was the major factor in the Lockport, Ill., marching band winning first place.

"The emphasis on marching bands this year has been placed on music rather than marching precision alone. Standards have been raised throughout the country by these bands because they knew the award was given on the sound of the band."

Yoder said that in the last year he had noticed that the entire band program had been elevated by this competition.

In reference to Iowa, Yoder said he had long been a dues-paying member of the Iowa Bandmasters Association and an active member. He lauded Karl King, world famed composer, whose music can be heard whistled all over the world.

Iowa has one of the leading band music publishers in the world, Barnhouse of Oskaloosa, said Yoder. He also paid tribute to Frederick Ebbs, director of the University of Iowa band, who also has been a guest of honor at the North Iowa Band Festival.

"Willson has been a tremendous influence in band music through his 'Music Man'," said Yoder. "Mason City also is to be congratulated for Paul Behm's 'Mac' Award, the highest given in America to a school director, and to Henry Paine, the new director of the Mason City Municipal Band.

"I hope Earl Hall stays wit the paper as consulting editor, for he has been a good friend of music. It is the only paper in the country that I know of that has a weekly band page."

"My warm congratulations and best wishes go to the wonderful gentlemen who fostered this successful festival. The success of this is due to the spirit of all of you. You are all in there pitching for the next fellow, all the way up and down through the bandmasters and all the bands.

"I am so proud of you and very happy to be here again. I am surprised at the spirit show at this wonderful festival, following the big on last year. And I give my deepest respect to Lester and Mrs. Milligan.

Enoch Norem, retired associate editor of the Globe-Gazette, and long-time associate of Milligan, presented the citation to Milligan, Mr. Band Festival.

"Judging from the telegrams received and the remarks made, there is no doubt that the North Iowa Band Festival is one of the greatest events ever conceived in the history of North Iowa," Norem said.

"The one person who more than anyone else has been responsible for the success of this has been Lester Milligan. All of us who have worked with him have known what a tower of strength he is."

The award, composed of a montage of festival pictures and a picture of Milligan reads:

"Silver Anniversary North Iowa Band Festival Award presented to Lester Milligan for his silver anniversary of the North Iowa Band Festival, in recognition of your leadership and organization genius that have made this musical event the greatest of its kind in America. Thousands hereby express their deep appreciation for your skilled and dedicated services these 25 years. You are hereby designated at Mr. Band Festival."

It was dated June 11, 1963, and signed by Dr. L W. Swanson, president of the Mason City Chamber of Commerce, Roger Baxter, vice president and Robert Douglas, general chairman of the North Iowa Band Festival.

Telegrams of congratulations were received by the festival from Meredith and Rini Willson, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Shelton, and Bob Quinn, publicity man for Warner Bros., who was here last year for the "Music Man" festival, and from U.S. Senator Jack Miller.

Roy M. Martin, Greenwood, Miss., flew to Mason City, to present the "Mac" Award to Paul Behm, director of the Mason City High School Band.

"The dignity of man depends on his individual accomplishments and the glory of recognizing these accomplishments," said Martin in presenting the award, given by the "First Chair," national organization of bandmasters, in memory of A. R. McAllister, nationally known bandmasters of Joliet Township schools.

The "Mac" Award is a bronze statuette of McAllister mounted on a block, with the inscription: "'Mac' Award presented to Paul Behm for his effective efforts in maintaining the highest ideals, music standards and professional leadership set by the late A. R. McAllister, eminent American bandmaster and outstanding leader in the music educational field of America."

Ernie Caneva, whose Lockport championship band was here to perform for the day, also is the holder of a "Mac" Award.

The 15 bands of the original band festival were honored with certificates. O. K. Conklin, Fredericksburg, is the only director who had attended all of the 25 festivals. This year there were 18 bands from Minnesota in the festival.

Carleton Stewart, former honored guest of the festival, acted as master of ceremonies for the luncheon. Also appearing on the program were Chairman Robert Douglas, Dr. L. W. Swanson, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Mayor George Mendon, Ernie Caneva and Joyce Rice.

Music representatives also here for the day were Mahlon Collins, Chicago, and Bob Robertson and Charles Gableman, Elkhart, Ind.

Photographs courtesy of The Globe Gazette

Transcriptions by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2018