1934 Hamilton School Band - Marsden Allred Band Instructor

Does anyone recognize the bandmembers by name?

(photo sent in by Lee R. Christensen) Thanks Lee.

As I remember them;

1^st row left to right;  Gordon Brunger trumpet, unk but I think a Seely, unk, , unk, Croft Larsen snare drum, Perry Peel bass drum, unk, Frank Nielsen trumpet, ,  unk unk.

2^nd row left to right:  - Fowels clarinet, Don Johansen clarinet, Kenneth Jones clarinet.  _ Anderson clarinet, Buddy Christensen clarinet, Phil Squire clarinet little Boyd Seely clarinet and Wayne Peterson clarinet .

Back row:  - Anderson sax, unk, Micky Nelson sax, unk, Beth Lund sax, Unk bass horn, unk, unk, Rex Christensen trombone, Shroal Erickson trombone and I think Don Burnside trombone.

   Marsden Allred director.   

Elmer Fillis  gave me some help I d ing this group years ago but I’ve lost his notes and again forgotten some of them.  We had two Boyd  Seelys one a year ahead  of me and one a year behind.  Little Boyd was a year behind.  Of the two Andersons the clarinet player was the youngest brother of Reese Anderson who may have been teaching in your day.  The sax player was son of Andy Anderson and they had  left town by your day. 

By my count and guess ,six of this group are sixth graders, six are fifth graders and the rest forth or maybe even third graders.  And  Marsden got “music” out of all of us>!     lee