The documented story
The yearbook supplies school identity, leadership, roster, activities, and approximate calendar dates.
People and leadership
Tom Shirley is identified as director and Earnest Potts as drum major; Band Mothers’ Club supported uniforms.
Community and organization
El Reno High School is the documented institutional context.
Reading the evidence
The band is distinct from the separate El Reno High School Drum and Bugle Corps and unidentified cowboy-band photograph.
Questions for further research
Recover the Boomer pages and preserve the 43-name roster with source spelling.
Dated evidence in this record
- 1937 – 1938
El Reno High School Band had forty-three students under Tom Shirley with Earnest Potts as drum major and documented football, parade, concert, halftime, and contest activity in 1937–38.