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El Reno High School Band

The 1938 Boomer yearbook documents a 43-student band led by Tom Shirley with Earnest Potts as drum major. It describes games, parades, halftime marching, a January 16 concert and an October 23 Weatherford marching-contest prize. The years 1938 and 1937 for those dates are inferred from school-year context. This does not identify the separate 1938 cowboy-band photograph ERL.506.

Community
El Reno
Historical setting
Oklahoma
Ensemble
school / high-school wind-brass-percussion band
Earliest reviewed evidence
1937–1938 school year; 1937-10-23 marching-contest activity
Later reviewed evidence
1938-01-16 — formal concert; additional 1937–38 games, parades and contests
People named in the sources
Tom Shirley (director); Earnest Potts (drum major); Band Mothers' Club (uniform support)

What remains uncertain

Relationship to the unidentified 1938 cowboy marching band / ERL.506 is unresolved; a shared identity is not established from visual proximity alone.

High for formal school-band identity, 43-student photo-caption roster, director, drum major, visible instrumentation and 1937–38 activities from a contemporary school yearbook; medium for inferred calendar years; no support for identifying ERL.506.

Yearbook roster

G. W. Warlick, Sam Weach, Jewel Lord, Bob Feistel, Edward W. Bell, Ira Goddard, Chris Bargeliotes, David Wright, T. C. Shacklett, Kenneth Wheeler, Daniel Carter, John Rector, Edward Von Tungeln, Jack Rhodes, Edward Novy, Frank Waldo, Burrel Gambel, Raymond Urton, Charles Turner, J. P. Neal Jr., Stuart MacSwain, Billy Douglas, Bobby Woodhouse, Bob Myers, Leon Lucas, Jimmy Smith, Billy Palmer, Dixon Noe, James Burmeier, James O'Neal, Clinton Leach, Jack Wellborn, Virdin Royse, Gene Campbell, Herbert Little, Harry Porter, Dean Thompson, Ned Daniels, Tommy McGill, Albert Houle Jr., Kenneth Sain, Wesley Shaw and Earnest Potts

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