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Lawton High School Band Program

Also documented as: Lawton High School Band · Lawton Boys Band · Lawton Drum Majorette Band

LawtonActive by 1938; present lineagePublic-school band-program family
Documented history with gaps
Master record196

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Documented overview

The 1940 yearbook documents band activity, girls’ participation, and a drum-majorette boys-band presentation beyond the separate 1939 all-girls photograph.

Documented history with gaps. The record supports a public history, with important limitations stated on the page.

History

Identity and chronology

The 1940 yearbook documents band activity, girls’ participation, and a drum-majorette boys-band presentation beyond the separate 1939 all-girls photograph.

Leadership

The reviewed evidence for Lawton High School Band Program does not identify a director, bandmaster, organizer, or complete leadership succession.

Sponsorship and participation

Lawton High School Band Program is treated as a school, youth, cadet, scout, agency, or honor-band subject under the approved educational collection. Historical membership is described only to the level the sources establish.

Student ensemble family.

Activity

The 1940 yearbook documents band activity, girls’ participation, and a drum-majorette boys-band presentation beyond the separate 1939 all-girls photograph. The image is evidence of the depicted occasion or group, not proof of a founding date or continuous operation.

Why this band matters

Documents a large southwestern Oklahoma school program and gendered band/pageantry structures before World War II.

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

  1. Documented evidence

    The 1940 yearbook documents band activity, girls’ participation, and a drum-majorette boys-band presentation beyond the separate 1939 all-girls photograph.

    Source 1

Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The evidence for Lawton High School Band Program does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Active by 1938; present lineage as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

What remains unknown

For Lawton High School Band Program: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.

Evidence

Sources

1 of 1 listed live source link resolved during the September 3, 2026 audit.

  1. The Gateway to Oklahoma History itemhttps://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2204515/m1/10/

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