Woodstock School Band with Clarence Olson ca 1934

Woodstock School Band with Clarence Olson ca 1934

This photo shows band members in their uniforms and with their instruments. Betty Dietz Hayes has identified every person, starting with Clarence Olson, Director; Wayne Calahan, Superintendent, and Harry Abraham, Principal.

Clarence Olson was the very respected band director for both Central School and Woodstock High School bands from 1929 until his death in 1953. Clarence Olson school is named after him.

The students in the photo:
First row: Gordon Boone, Irvin Tucker, Hazel Shales, Floyd Eckert, Bill Gancar, Loraine Dirrenberger, Grant Rassmusen, Lewis Soenksen, Jim Nevins, Elward Sherwin, Bill Dodge, Ralph Knutsen, Allan Smith, Modelle Morris.
Second row: Henry Smith, John Schuett, Edwin Belcher, Fred Drummond, Evelyn Baymiller, Jack Nevin, Raymond Youngberg, John Coe, Jim Ogle, Betty Dietz, Joyce Sayler, Ellen Paulson, Bib Diggins, Audrey Paulson, Molly Joslyn, Garry Austin.
Third row: Bill Frame, Frances Hansen, Gracia Knaack, Marjorie Thomas, Wilbur Kiefer, Russell Andrew, Dorothy Petit, Irv Walters, Ed Monroe, Oral Eckert, Lyle Huffman, Sam Herdclotz, Dick Howell, George Hesselgrave, Slade Austin.
Fourth row: Gene Judson, Elcon Seagrist, Jim Botts, Carl Smeltzer, Lowell Nienstedt, Melvin Belcher, Grover Wilkerson, Marian Woolf, Carl McBroom, Russell Leverans, ?Woolf, ?McBroom, Ed Gorenfla, Jim Tryon, Jim Phillips

The date is estimated by comparing another band photo dated 1934. The students are wearing the same uniforms and appear to be about the same age.

Jan Parker

ca 1934