Friday, August 19, 2022

 


Galena, Kansas All-School Band

1940s

The lower and upper school grades combined pupils to form a big-band sound. My cousin, Lewis Rice (at left with tuba) must have ushered my Aunt Margaret's nerves to tatters at home. 

Ca. 1947

1st Row: Jenkins, Bynum, Bankson, Cox, Rosenberry, Hulvey, Endicott, Archer, Hayward, Martin, Swain. 
2nd Row: Rice, Rosenberry, McGraw, Vanderpool, Poole, Link, Plyler, Abbott, Cantrell, Carter, Shryock.  
3rd Row: Harrelson, Williams, Ferguson, Hollingsworth, Price, Bullard, Waugh, Willis, Thomas, Moore. 
4th Row: Vogel, Himes, Wheelan, Messer, Wantland, Thompson, McMillan, Williams, Neeley, Tackitt, Booe, Thompson,