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UNIVERSITY LAIL
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, JANUARY 5. 1948
Band Heads Miami Show
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Coast for the presentation.
The band drew large crowds to the rehearsal park for its Wednesday morning and afternoon practices. 300,000 See Parade
The peak of the Spirit of Youth celebration was reached at the Orange Bowl parade New Year's Eve. Three hundred thousand spectators cheered the two and one-half hour parade, in which the Jayhawkers had a leading role. The band, headed by Oakley Pittman, assistant director, Charely Byers, field drum major, and twirler Bill Sears was the second musical aggregation in the colorful procession, closely following a lead-off drum and bugle corps of the Miami American Legion post. The Legion bass drumhead was inscribed with the legend "national champions."
Jayhawker cheerleaders danced and strutted along in front of the band, and led the group in K. U. songs and cheers. Bill Sears was, as usual, at his best with the baton.
Most Miami observers rated the Kansas organization as one of the best in the parade, and some went so far as to label the K. U. musicians lops in the Orange Bowl celebration.
Sir In Trailer Next
Directly after the band was the K. U. Sigma Phi Epsilon semi-trailer, bearing signs and red-shirted, madly yelling Sig Eps. In direct accord with a truck-front sign reading "Snow Georgia Tech," the cowboy-hatted Jayhawkers showered spectators with cold, wet snow by the handful.
Eighteen more bands, most of them high school organizations, were intertwined with the daily decorated floats of the parade. The floats, mostly representative of Miami business houses, bore Florida beauties, attired in their scantiest best and reached the acme of originality.
On the next-to-last float of the parade was the beautiful and vivacious queen, Jennene Biegger, a University of Miami student. The final float was that of equally gorgeous Fat Fordyce, representing the Spirit of Youth theme of the celebration.
10. 999 Parade Seats Sold
A street dance was held after the parade.
Tickets for the 10,000 bleacher and box seats in choice spots along the boulevard, selling for $1.50 and $2.50 respectively, were all gone 24 hours in advance, and the bulk of the crowd of 300,000 was forced to shove and fight its way to the front in order to obtain the more advantageous positions.
The main highlight of the Orange Bowl was yet to come—the game. The Kansas band arrived early and played through the team warmups.
The combined bands and majorettes of the five Greater Miami high schools filled the field before the game, playing in unison the national anthem and the Orange ballad this time to Henry Fillmore, author of the march; and to Fred McCall, who wrote and directed the game pantom.
Snow fell on the Orange Bowl for the first time in history, but this blizzard was white paper confetti, and fell only during the halftime program.
Band Starts Ceremonies
The halftime ceremonies were started by the Jawhawk band. Floraladed by the public address announcer as "the famous University of Kansas marching band, one of the finest in the country," the KU musicians took the field to put on the opening show.
It yes the first time in Orange Bowl history that any organization he I been awarded a solo performance in the halffime ceremonies, but the Jayhawk musicians lived up to the advance publicity, and drew roars of approval from the crowd when it retired to watch the remainder of the program from the west end zone.
Champion baton twirler B111 Sears was the center of attraction with his sky-scraping tosses and his double-stick routine as the band marched onto the field.
Form K. G. M
The first formation was a huge "K" facing the south stands. The band played the Kansas alma mater and then 10 Kansas cheerleaders long both sidelines led the crowd in the famous Rock Chalk chant.
The band next formed a capital "G" and played the Georgia Tech "Ramblin' Wreck" song, much to the delight of the Atlanta spectators. The final formation was a large "M" followed by a spell-out cheer of Miami in tribute to the host city.
The first member of the multi-band pageant to enter the field was the Greater Miami Boys' Drum and Bugle corps, with the Miami American Legion color guard following with the United States flag. Four high school bands—Ponce de Leon of Coral Gables, Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami Andrew Jackson—took their places. The drum majorttes of the five Great Miami high schools entered in one group, and drew appreciative whistles from the spectators.
Girls In Formals. Too
After the Miami High school band took its place in the formations, 200 members of the girls' glee clubs of the five Miami high schools, dressed in pastel formalms, entered the field, and formed colorful circles in the four corners and the center of the rectangle. In the center of each circle was a gaily decorated floral wheel, anchoring hugh gas-filled rubber balloons.
The Mahi Shrine band was the final one to enter from the east end. The Miami Edison High school band and their marching cadets, along with the Cavaliettes of Ponce de Leon High school, completed the formation by entering from the player ramps in the center of the stands.
Ah. The Queen
Then came the queen! The festival ruler, accompanied by the theme girl, entered on a chariton drawn by four cadets and moved slowly around the field during the program. As the queen entered, she released several pigeons which fluttered gaily over the ensemble. At the same time, the glee club girls raised their balloons on colored streamers, lending a maynole effect.
The Miami Andrew Jackson swing band took the spotlight, playing "Let It Snow" with Miss Jean Head of Miami Edison as the vocalist.
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Confetti was thrown from the upper deck of the stands during the song, and the wind currents flurried it into the appearance of a real snowfall. The balloons were released and soared out of the stadium, trailing the colored streamers.
At the climax of the pageant there were over 1,300 performers on the playing field.
The K.U. band reassembled at the west end of the field and marched across to its position by the east end zone as the final bits of the ceremonies.
Band Plays Concert
The band made its final public appearance at a Thursday night concert in Bayfront park before a large audience. Mr. Henry Fillmoe, author of the Orange Bowl march, and the familiar Klaxon march often used by the Jayhawkers, conducted the Kansas musicians in these two numbers.
After the band had played his two numbers, Mr. Fillmore told the assembly that the K.U. band was "the best band ever to play in Miami," and that it was the best rendition of his two marches that he had ever heard, "as good as you'll hear anywhere."
The band members, their job of production done, relaxed Friday with a tour of Miami, Miami Beach, and Coral Gables, leaving Friday night on the K.U. special for Lawrence. Weary, but with the feeling of a job well done, the band group left behind some 300,000 friends gained by its superb accomplishments.
VA Wants To Make Dividend Payments
The Veterans Administration wants to make National Service Life Insurance dividend payments as soon as it can be determined that the fund contains a surplus, according to Mr. S. L. Derby of the local Veterans Administration. "It will also be necessary to determine the amount and to whom it should be paid." Mr. Derby said. Mr. Derby pointed out that the deadline for reinstating the insurance without a physical examination expires Dec. 31, and went en to explain that even though a veteran did not carry N.S.L.I while in service, he may still apply for it. In the latter case a physical examination will be required.
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