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El Reno High School Drum and Bugle Corps

The 1938 Boomer documents a separate 37-student girls' drum and bugle corps organized and directed by Tom Shirley. Sara Ann Preston was drum major and Eunice Cormack assistant sponsor. The corps provided music and marching exhibitions and attended festivals and contests. It remains distinct from the school's concert/marching band.

Community
El Reno
Historical setting
Oklahoma
Ensemble
school / girls' drum and bugle corps
Earliest reviewed evidence
1937–1938 school year — organized after Tom Shirley's arrival
Later reviewed evidence
1937–1938 school year — marching demonstrations, music, festivals and contests documented
People named in the sources
Tom Shirley (director and organizer); Sara Ann Preston (drum major); Eunice Cormack (assistant sponsor); Band Mothers' Club (uniform support)

What remains uncertain

Separate from the El Reno High School Band / the separately documented band; relationship to the unidentified 1938 cowboy marching band / ERL.506 is unsupported.

High for separate corps identity, 37-student photo-caption roster, director, drum major, visible percussion/bugles and 1937–38 activity from a contemporary school yearbook; exact appearance dates and outcomes beyond the captioned year remain unresolved.

Yearbook roster

Eileen Davis, Maxine Hubbs, Marilyn Hoffman, Frances Bratton, Ethel Womack, Dolores Harrison, Geraldine Donnellan, Marguerite Lakin, Vesta Mae Hendrix, Alberta Shumate, Anna Marie Wied, Odell Smith, Corrine Orr, June Mae Barnes, Lillian Gilbert, Katherine Newsom, Dorothy Todd, Margaret Garrett, Cleola Taylor, Virginia Mitchell, Carol Perso, Helen Turner, Sara Ann Preston, Pearl Pennybaker, Opal Todd, Barbara Douglas, Ethel Julian, Margarett Ann Rice, Hazel Harrison, Eleanor Davis, Helen Brown, Benicia Wier, Doris Barlow, Mary Helen Anderson, Alice Virginia Lowe, Dolene Hebberd and Betty Jean Imboden

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