October 12, 1973 press release for Band Day at Central Methodist College (now Central Methodist University)

October 12, 1973 press release for Band Day at Central Methodist College (now Central Methodist University)

Central Methodist University

3p, typewritten on Central Methodist College (now Central Methodist University) Office of Public Information letterhead, describing preparations for Band Day to take place on October 20, 1973.

Central Methodist University

October 12, 1973

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OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION: 8I6/248-3131 OR 816/248-3391, EXT. 323

JIM STEELE, Director HOME PH. 816/243-3370

Oct, 12, 1973  For Immediate Release

Central Methodist College
To Host Annual Band Day

FAYETTE, Mo. --  More than 25 Missouri high school bands participate in the 10th annual band day to be held Saturday (Oct. 20) at Central Methodist College. The event will get underway at 9 a.m. with a Fayette followed by field competition from 10:15 a.m. to  1 p.m

Approximately 2,000 students are expected to be on hand along with more than 100 parents and chaperons. An estimated 60 busses will be used to transport the various bands to the CMC campus. This year's band day is expected to be the largest in the history of the college.

Keith House, director of bands at CME, is in charge of the event.

Band Day at Central Methodist started in 1964 with nine bands participating and until 1971 was held in conjunction with CMC's homecoming. With additional bands taking part each year, the logistical and scheduling problems involved with having both events at the same time had become impossible to handle.

Following the field competition, the college will provide lunch for the high school students and their chaperons. The visitors will then be guests of CMC for the 2 p.m. football game which will see the Central Eagles pitted against the William
Jewell Cardinals.

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Band Day 1

Trophies will be presented at 1:50 p.m., just prior to the kickoff. The band with the most points will perform at the halftime show along with the CMC Marching Eagles.

As in the past, trophies will be given in both street marching and field performance. Bands will compete in categories as determined by school enrollment - A (small), AA (medium), AAA (large), and AAAA (extra-large).

Three trophies in each category will be given in the street marching, with the groups to be judged on performance of music, column movement, and block-band appearance. Trophies also will be awarded for the field competition with judging to be based on marching and precision, shows, and music.

Also to be awarded will be two special trophies; one for the best drum major and another to the group presenting the best “band front." The band front is interpreted to mean the flag bearers, drum majors, twirlers, pom-pon corps and other who march ahead of a band.

The band with the largest total points from both the street marching and the field competition will be awarded the grand champion trophy which can be retired after it has been won three" consecutive times. Park Hill High School from Kansas City retired the grand champion trophy in 1971. A new one was begun last fall and was again won by Park Hill. '"In short," remarked House, “Park Hill is the school the others will be trying to beat."

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BAND DAY 2

Band day judges this year are: Robert Scott, band director at Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield; Charles Emmons, chairman of the music department at the University of Missouri-Columbia; Ron Curtis, assistant director of Marching Mizzou; and John A. Roberts, dean of CMC‘s Swinney Conservatory of Music.

High schools participating this year and their respective directors are: Blair Oaks, Sam White; Drunswick, Gerald Edson; Gallatin, Murphy Tetley; Glasgow, Jay Jacobs; Hardin, David Holsinger; Keytesville, Dean Davison; New Franklin, Naomi Reed; New Haven, Lawrence Smith; Norborne, John White; Slater, David Caputo; Westran (Huntsville), Paul Craig; Fayette, Jim Johnson; Maryville, Lee Schneider; Monroe City, Ken Tebow; Montgomery County, Bob Holdin; Paris, Tom Lima; Richmond, Ken Seward; DeSoto, Ben Stewar; Francis Howell (St. Charles), Al McCune; Fulton, Lisle Mbore; Hickman Mills (Kansas City area), Dave Mitchell; Meramec Valley, Marvin Corbin; Park Hill (Kansas City), Bill Mack; Washington, Gene Hunt; Oak Grove, Doug Watts; and Concordia, Dale Pollard.

Nine of the band directors participating are Central Methodist graduates.

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