Accession number
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2011.091
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Catalog Number
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2011.091.001
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Object Name
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Scrapbook
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Date
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1953
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Creator
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Thompson, Marabeth Naremore
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Title
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Bossier High School band scrapbook 1953
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Scope & Content
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Scrapbook from 1953 Bossier High School band trip. Compiled by Marabeth Naremore Thompson, class of 1956. Includes newspaper clippings, postcards from cities and hotels, matchbooks from restaurants, maps, a trip itinerary, rooming list, bus list.
The Bossier High Band attened the Lions International convention held in Chicago from July 8 - 11, 1953. According to newspaper articles in the scrapbook, the band left Bossier City July 6 and began an 11 day concert tour with stops at Michigan City, MI; Toronto, Canada; Niagara Falls, NY; Cincinnati, OH; and Savannah, TN. The band also played at a White Sox vs. Cleveland Indians game at Comiskey Park on July 10, 1953. The band was under the direction of Kenneth L. Green and was sponsored by the Louisiana Lions Clubs. The band was selected by the state organization to represent Louisiana in competition with dozens of other amateur bands from all over the nation and foreign countries.
From 90 - 105 band members traveled to the convention (number differs in newspaper articles). Accompanying the band was director Green; Bossier High School principal, Emmett Cope; school board member W.M. Waller; parish superintendent of education, R.V. Kerr and Mrs. Kerr; Mr. Judson W. Naremore of the Bossier Band and Trust Company and Mrs. Naremore; assistant director, Mr. Charles Raley and his wife Mrs. Raley; teachers, Miss Rebecca Hall and Mrs. E.T. Nix; and nurse Miss Fane Ruth Ahearn.
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People
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Adams, George B., Jr.
Ahearn, Fane Ruth
Beauregard, Ernest
Bickham, Clifton
Blackburn, Dixie
Bohn, David
Boyd, Marsha
Bridges, Irma Jean
Brown, Carol
Brown, Gloria
Bundy, Barnie Lewis
Burnham, Albert
Carter, Gail
Chaney, Ray
Cockrell, Robert
Collins, Lowell
Cooper, James
Cope, Emmett Earl
Coppedge, Charles H.
Corbin, Dickie
Cox, Adair
Cox, Suzanne
Davidson, Buddy
DeGueurce, Frances
DeLoach, Betty
DeYoung, Barbara
Drake, Jimmy
Dyson, Cordia Bruce Naremore
Dyson, Ted
Eliasson, Jeannie
Ellenburg, Janet
Ellington, Jerry
Forman, Nancy
Frolick, Willie Joe
Glover, Ann
Gothard, Johnette
Green, Kenneth L.
Grigsby, Richard Paul
Hall, Rebecca
Harrison, George
Hester, Gloria
Hollaway, Barbara
McCowen, Carolyn Horton
Howard, Shirley
Jones, Dorothy
Jones, Loretta
Kelly, B.T.
Kerr, Nettie Smith
Kerr, Robert Vance
Klein, Kirby
Land, Alice
Lattier, Barbara
Laughlin, Ramona
Lee, Leonard
Marlor, George
McCain, Floy
McCall, Mary Frances
McCranie, Richard Wise
McDowell, Bennett
McDowell, Nelda
Miller, Bennie
Moore, Larry
Moore, Patsy
Moore, Pete
Motes, Nancy
Mulkey, Ella Jean
Murray, Bobbye
Naremore, Judson Waller
Naylor, Barbara
Nix, Billie Jo White
Palmer, Kathryn
Parkerson, Shirley
Patrick, Pat
Payne, Ronnie
Perdue, Pierre
Peterson, Linda
Phillips, Martha
Price, Jean
Pugh, Barbara
Raley, Charles
Raley, Charles (Mrs.)
Ray, Elton
Ray, Harold
Ritter, Jimmy
Robinson, Linda
Sanders, Jerry
Scoggin, Margie
Stahl, Neita
Staley, Jann
Stewart, Elmer E.
Stokes, Ray
Stringfellow, George M.
Stroops, Sylvia Lynn (Dr.)
Talley, David
Taylor, Carey
Taylor, Marilyn
Taylor, William
Thigpen, Bobby
Thompson, Marabeth Naremore
Tucker, Hazelee
Underwood, Letha
Waldrop, Elaine
Waller, Mary Margaret
Waller, W.M.
Walpole, Pete
Westmoreland, Mary Elizabeth
Wheeler, Sondra Kay
Whorton, Larry
Williams, Anita
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Search Terms
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Bands
Bossier Bank and Trust
Lions Club, Bossier City
Bossier High School
Bossier High School Band
Bossier Parish Schools
Travel
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Inventoried date
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2024-01-22
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