Lawton High School Band Program | Oklahoma Musicians

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The documented story

The 1940 yearbook documents band activity, girls’ participation, and a drum-majorette boys-band presentation beyond the separate 1939 all-girls photograph. The image is evidence of the depicted occasion or group, not proof of a founding date or continuous operation.

People and leadership

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

Community and organization

Lawton High School Band Program 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 Lawton High School Band Program does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Active by 1938; present lineage as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

Questions for further research

For Lawton High School Band Program: 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

1938 – 1939
The 1940 Lawton yearbook reports national and Texas State first-division ratings in 1938, Oklahoma State recognition, a 1938 boys-band reference, and a 1939 drum-major reference.
1940
The 1940 Lawton school-band booklet documents the Lawton Boys Band as a period school-band program. The Boys Band is not assumed to be identical to the All Girls Band or every later Lawton band reference.
1971
A Lawton Constitution article dated April 19, 1971 reports Lawton High band activity at a public arts festival, describes the band as prize-winning, and notes an invitation to represent Oklahoma at a future Mardi Gras event.
1978
An April 8, 1978 Lawton Morning Press Arts for All Festival schedule includes a Lawton High School percussion ensemble.
1981
A September 5, 1981 Lawton Morning Press article describes Lawton High band activity during a football halftime performance.