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The documented story
The yearbook supports a separate school-band identity, but instruments, complete roster, and independent band page require verification.
People and leadership
Harold J. Hedges is identified as orchestra director; band directorship is not established.
Community and organization
Atoka School is the documented institutional context; relation to the orphanage school band is unresolved.
Reading the evidence
The formal name and relationship to the mixed orchestra remain qualified.
Questions for further research
Recover the original yearbook page and verify the band’s roster, instrumentation, and director.
Dated evidence in this record
- 1936 – 1937
Atoka School Band is distinguished from the mixed Atoka School Orchestra in 1936–37.