Three or Four Reams of Paper
Precision Band Drills Require Work
By Jackie Wardell
Emerald Reporter
Tt takes hours of hard work be
ginning in the summer and con
tinuing until game time on a fall
afternoon to put the University of
Oregon marching band on the field
with the intricate maneuvers that
v, in praise at Stanford last Sat
urday.
Director Robert Vagner and his
staff meet early in summer term
to decide the themes of the after
noon performances and to select
the music to be used.
Once selected, the music must be
a> anged to suit the proposed for
mations and the expected person
red. Students in the music school
usually handle this phase of the
preparation—this year John Hen
drickson and Richard Ramsdell,
g aduate students in music, did
tup arrangements.
Miniature Field
The actual formations cannot
hr- completed until the band forms
i' the fall because the exact num
ber of members must be known
before the final routines are work
er out with models on the minia
ture football field in the music
shook
Routines on Paper
The routines are then transfer
red to graph paper and then onto
d i to paper. Each member has a
number, is assigned a particular
position on the field for each se
quence and receives a copy of the
sequence as well as mimeographed
copies of all the music to be play
ed. Three or four reams of mimeo
graph paper are used each game,
according to Vagner.
Band members first march
through the routines without mu
sir, then rehearse the music with
out marching and finally put the
t o together. “We try to have two
weeks between performances be
cause of the uncertainty of the
weather,” said Vagner. “With only
tucee practices a week a rainstorm
O' two could leave us with almost
no preparation,” he added.
Joint Performance
For this reason, the band, which
spent last weekend in California,
Viill put on a joint performance
w>h the Oregon State college band
| at Portland Saturday. "The rou
I tine will of necessity be simple.
We'll have only about half an hour
to practice together,” Vagner
stated.
Synchronizing the field routines
j with the public address system is
; also a major problem facing the
I band. In Eugene, the UO band has
| its own announcer, Estely Schiclt,
! music instructor in the Eugene
] public schools, who takes over
when the band takes the field.
The marching band avoids deli
j cate instruments such as the oboe
and concentrates on brass and per
! cussion instruments.
Figures with moving parts are
the hardest to work out, accord
ing'to Vagner. A great deal of co
ordination is needed for band mem
bers to march, watch cues, and
play difficult numbers at the same
time, especially if they are con
stantly changing from one selec
tion to another.
Two Routines
Vagner cited two routines used
in the Oregon-Montana game as
extremely difficult. One was the
fan which opened and closed as the
band played, the other was the
large tuba formed by the band
while 12 tuba players played and
did a dance step.
"Our main problem is lack of
interest by non-music majors in
joining the band,” Vagner said.
The average band member spends
three hours a week rehearsing be
sides the game afternoon. Most of
our work goes into planning so
that the students’ time won’t be
wasted, the director added.
He continued that a student
wishing to join the band but hav
ing conflicting classes on one or
j even two of the rehearsal after
! noons aft.en can arrange to miss
those rehearsals and still appear
in the formations on Saturday.
Substitutes always watch and
participate in the practices in case
of the illness of a regular member.
90 Members
This year’s marching band num
bers approximately 90 according
to Vagner. This includes the girls’
band. About 75 percent of these
members, as is the case every year,
are new students.
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TCBAS OX THE MARCH, as John Bigelow, squat! leader, steps the
Oregon band tuba section across the grass. The players, though hid
den behind their horns are, front left to right, I’hil Cass, (Jury De
Brokert, Lee Tucker, Francis Mayberry, Donald Thurber, Dwight
Knight, Koy Childs and John Hanson.
“Oregon State depends on the
entire student body for band mem
bers and we'd like to also,” Vagner
concluded. “As it is now we’re en
tirely too dependent on the school
of music.”
The band will have made four
trips tins year three to Portland
and the California trip. Raoul Mad
dox, junior in music, serves as stu
dent manager of the band on these
trips. He is assisted by Ray Wal
den, in charge of instruments, and
Charles Humphries, in charge of
uniforms. Ira Lee, brass instructor,
is assistant director and Richard
Stewart, graduate student in mu
sic, is student leader.
Activities Slate
(Continued from f>a<ie one)
nity council and the Interdormi
tory council.)
Mortar Hoard Cut Planned
' The sub-committee recommend
; ed two other measures:
1. That the Mortar Board Ball
! and the Military Ball be eliminated
i and that all class dances, with the
| exception of the Junior Prom, be
eliminated in favor of a single all
, class dance.
2. That groups visiting the Ore
gon campus be housed as a unit in
one or two fraternities or sorori
ties instead of alloting a small
number of persons to each house.
(Living organizations would pro
vide housing for a large number of
persons at one time and would not
then be called upon to furnish
housing until, their turn came up
again.)
The question of elimination of
the Mortal' Board Ball and the
Military ball will be referred to
Mortar Board, senior women's hon
orary, and Scabbard and Blade,
military honorary, before a stu
dent affairs committee decision.
The student housing suggestion
will be referred to Heads of Hous
es, IFC and IDC.
Committee Members
Members of the sub-committee
recommending the three measures
were Sarah Turnbull, president of
the Associated Women Students,
chairman; Pat Dignan, ASUO
president; Pat Ward, president of
Heads of Houses; and Clyde Fahl
man, chairman of the Student
Union board.
Music Honorary
Holds Annual Sale
Members of Mu Phi Epsilon, pro
[ fessior.a! music honorary, are car
rying on their annual magazine
sales campaign, according to Lois ;
Ann Schmidt, chairman.
Many nationally-known maga
zines are on the subscription lists,
and several may be purchased at
special Christmas rates, Miss
Schmidt added.
Anyone wishing subscriptions
may contact Lois Ann Schmidt at
Ann Judson house or any Mu Phi
member.
Proceeds from the sales, which
are carried on by chapters all over
j the nation, go to the national Mu
| Phi headquarters to be used in fi
| nancing such things as the Mc
i Dowell colony, music summer
I camp.
Oregano Retakes
Continue Monday
Makeup and retake pictures
will continue Monday and Tues
day, Jody Greer, Oregunu asso
ciate editor, has announced.
Dress for makeup pictures
must he the same as previously
worn by respective living organi
zations to maintain the unity of
the page. Miss Greer said.
IJving organizations having
pictures taken on these days
may have sittings at Kennell
F.llis from !> a.m. to 5 p.m. on
the day scheduled.
No appointments have to he
made before going down, Miss
Greer stated.
laving organizations and tin
day scheduled for retakes or
makeups are as follows:
Monday — Carson hall, Ann
Judson house, Campbell club,
Highland house, Philadelphia
house and lichee house.
Tuesday — Phi Delta Theta,
University house, Alpha, Gam
ma, Sigma and Merrick halls.
'Salesman7 Tryouts
Start Next Week
Tryouts for “Death of a Sales
man” will be held Monday and
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the labora
tory theater, Villard 102.
This modern drama contains
some very strong dramatic roles,
according to F. J. Hunter, instruc
tor- in speech, who will direct the
production. The play, which is the
third University theater produc
tion, is scheduled to run Feb. 6, 7,
10, 11, 12 and 13.
Ducks to Meet OSC
(C tintwiicd I nun Ixu/e one)
field will probably be Ctece Hodges,
right half; Novikoff, fullback; and
Ted Anderson, left half.
Beavers Have Had Trouble
The Beavers, coached by Kip
Taylor, a graduate of Michigan,
and consequently a staunch single
wing man, have had rough sailing.
They lost most of their stars from
a pretty fair club in 1951 and have
been depending heavily on Sam
Baker, their big fullback, to carry
the load. Baker almost single
handedly defeated the Webfoots a
year ago at Eugene.
k or more sports news, the start
ing lineups and team records,
please turn to pages four and five.
$U Currents
Music Listening
Hours Announced
The hours for the Peter Henson
Howard music listening room in
the Student Union are as follows:
Monday 2 to 5 p in., 8 to 10 p.m.
Tuesday 1 to 5 p.m., 8 to 10
p.m.
Wednesday 2 to "> p.m.
Thursday 1 to 5 p.m., 8 to 10
i p.m.
Friday 2 to 5 p.m.
Sunday 2 to 5 p.m., 8 to 10
, p.m.
There will he Tuesday night rec
I ord concerts as announced. Anyone
wishing to use the room at any
i other lime should call Klaine Cut
ting at 5-9041.
* * *
Community Sing
To Be Held Sunday
A community sing, led by Char
lotte Johnson, student teacher, will
take place this Sunday in the Stu
dent Union commuter's lunchroom
fiom 7 to 7:30 p.m. Mary Sweeney
will be at the piano. This is an in
formal affair for those who like to
sing all types of music, according
to Dorothy Anderson, chairman of
the music committee.
Mixer Cancelled;
Movie Scheduled
The Fishbowl mixer scheduled
for Dee. 5 has been cancelled so
that a movie may be shown at that
time. The regular Sunday time for
the movie was unavailable on this
weekend, reports Jackie Steuart,
chairman of the SU dance commit
tee. The next mixer will tie held
sometime during the first weeks
of winter term.
e Campus Briefs
0 Pre-Nursing Club will meet
at noon Monday at Wesley house.
Members will bring sack lunches.
Henrietta Doltz, head of the nurs
ing department, will be the guest
speaker.
0 .Malroni Buchanan was the
only patient admitted to the cam
pus infirmary Thursday. Other pa
tients confined there are Craig
Weathford, Don Traux, Stuart Ol
son, Howard McGinnis, Ernest
Bergstrom, Gary McManus. James
Massey, Phil Singleton and Bar
bara His ley.
Dismissed Wednesday evening
and Thursday morning were Don
ald Wilkinson, Ernest Sellers, Julie
Fuller and Lucille Swaggert.
9 Then; will !><• a meeting of all
Amphibian members Monday night,
at 8:30 at Gerlinger pool.
9 The Outing Club of the Wom
en’s Recreation Association has
scheduled an overnight hike to
Walker's Barn, leaving Gerlinger
Hall at 1:00 p.m. Saturday. The
club will climb Mt. Pisgah.
9 The volleyball tournament of
the Women’s Recreation Associa
tion is now over except for the
finals between Rebec and Highland
which will be played after Thanks
j giving. The winner must win two
out of three games.
9 The psychology club will hold
a business and social meeting at
8 p.m. Tuesday in the Student
Union. All faculty members and
graduate or upper division psychol
ogy students who plan to attend
are asked by the department to
call extension 576 before 4 p.m.
Monday to make reservations.