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Grove City High School
Grove
City Boys Band - 1925-26
Click to enlarge photo and view band membership list. Rap! Rap! Sh-h-h!! The Boys Band of Grove City High School, under the capable and efficient leadership of Professor Edgar Stenger Hassler of the Grove City High School faculty, has made rapid steps towards a bright and flowery future. The Band first came into existence in May, 1917, with Professor H. M. B. Lehn at the helm. The band was backed financially by the Grove City National Bank and members of the Board of Education. Later, through the kindness of the Grove City Commercial Club uniforms were procured fro the aspiring young musicians. For the past two years daily rehearsals were held three times a week. A concert was given, much to the enjoyment of the audience and the fattening of the band’s funds. During the last summer engagements were filled at Jackson Center, Harvest Home, Stoneboro Fair, Slippery Rock Centennial, Mercer Fair, and the K. K. K. celebration at Mercer. Professor Lehn, who accompanied the band on these travels, was a living skeleton and a nervous wreck after the successful closing of the fair season. Besides this branch of the band’s activities they played for all football and basketball games and for community activities such as Decoration Day and Armistice Day. This band, the first school band to be organized in Western Pennsylvania, is hereby and forever wished a successful and profitable old age. - “Russ” and “Stewie”, ‘27 [Russell Sweitzer and Stewart O’Connor]
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from 1926 Pine Knot, Grove City High School yearbook, page 83
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