I want to thank Buddy (SLHS '47) and Billie (SLHS '56) Blair who let me scan the pictures that appear in this blog entry. They show the SLHS Drum & Bugle Corps which played and marched at football games from 1928 to 1940. These photos show the Corps in its final year 1940. We couldn't identify all the girls, so I've posted a clipping from the 1940 Sugar Land - Rosenberg game program, which may help identify the subjects. (If you recognize anyone, please let me know.)
The first photo below shows Muffet Guenther Gideon (SLHS '41). The second photo shows Muffet and two twirlers. Buddy thinks the third picture shows the Corps officers.
We're not sure about the first photo. The second shows the entire Corps. (I don't see Daniel Prikyl although he's listed in the program.)
The first photo below shows Beanie Blair Petrosky (SLHS '42) in her Corps uniform. (You'll see her in a band uniform in the next entry.) The second photo shows Hattie Mae Woods, who was the faculty sponsor for the Corps. (You'll see a second photo of her in the next entry, too.)
The third photo has been a puzzle for some time. The quality isn't real good, but I think that's Harry Thompson at the microphone. I can't identify the other two men in the foreground. That is the Drum & Bugle Corp in the background. (Their uniforms help identify them.) At first I wondered if this was a bond drive or some sort of patriotic event held at the football field during WWII, but that's not possible since the Corps was converted to a band in the fall of 1941. I think this may be the opening ceremony for the football field in 1939. SLISD added lights and stands to the field that year, so they may have held a ceremony to mark the new changes.
