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Drumright High School Band

Local museum research documents a female drum major, 1937 state victory and Chicago trip, a 30-city tour, and a 1946 Mexico tour.

Drumright High School Band festival preparation
Drumright High School Band festival preparation · Original source
Drumright High School Band national contest
Drumright High School Band national contest · Original source
Drumright High School Band and B School Band
Drumright High School Band and B School Band · Original source
Drumright High School Band Christmas parade
Drumright High School Band Christmas parade · Original source

People and leadership

The reviewed evidence for Drumright High School Band does not identify a director, bandmaster, organizer, or complete leadership succession.

Community and organization

Drumright High School Band is treated as a school, youth, cadet, scout, agency, or honor-band subject under the approved educational collection. Historical membership is described only to the level the sources establish.

Reading the evidence

The evidence for Drumright High School Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats 1936–1946 documented milestones as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

Questions for further research

For Drumright High School Band: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.

Dated evidence in this record
  1. 1934-03-01

    A March 1, 1934 article reports an 80-piece Drumright High School Band preparing for Tri-State, district, and state contests and documents uniform needs.

  2. 1937-07 – 1937-09-16

    A September 1937 article reports the Drumright High School Band placing sixth among nearly 60 bands at the Lions Club International Convention in Chicago and a high honor for its drum major.

  3. 1944

    A May 1944 Drumright newspaper announced a high-school band concert and separately described the Drumright B School Band as a 65-student feeder ensemble drawn from grades 4–8.

  4. 1957

    A December 1957 Drumright newspaper scheduled the Drumright high-school band and its B band to lead a local Christmas parade.

Sources

  1. dmulti.juvoweb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2025/12/Vol.-33.pdf
  2. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2177150/m1/1/
  3. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2177835/m1/1/
  4. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2089018/m1/1/
  5. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2412744/m1/12/