Ready to Help the Boys
Elizabeth City’s own bandmaster is going to give his services as director of the boys band until the first of the year. Leslie D. Waldorf knows music and is enthusiastic about his job. He takes a lot of pride in his new task of training 50 boys to be lowers of horns and beaters of drums.
Hopeful of the day when they may be masters of their instruments sufficient to make trips to nearby towns resplendent in stunning uniforms, and carrying a bright and polished horn, the boys of the newly organized band are eagerly awaiting the arrival of instruments and the beginning of rehearsals under the direction of their enthusiastic leader, L.D. Waldorf.
Mr. Waldorf has obligingly offered his services free as director of the band until the first of the year, when he will start on a very nominal salary, barely enough to pay him for his time. But the money is not the reward Leslie Waldorf wants. For eight or 10 years he has dreamed of a band for the boys of Elizabeth City. He has carried this dream in his head, as hopeful as the boys themselves but never before has he found an opportunity to put it into reality.
It will be a big day for Mr. Waldorf when he sees a band of his own making, able to furnish music for the Fourth of July races, the Fair, and sundry excursions of this section. The boys are to furnish their own uniforms, to be all white, consisting of a pair of white duck pants, a white shirt, white shoes and stockings, a white coat, and a regular band cap. Mr. Waldorf believes his boys will be playing real music by January 1.
Already $1,275 has been subscribed to the band, which lacks $225 of being the amount necessary. There are 15 boys on the waiting list, anxious to join the band, and $2,000 could be easily used. The city gave $300, the Elks $60, and the boys themselves raised the remainder. Other orders have promised to make contributions later.
The band has 71 members, 56 of which can enter, while 15 remain on the waiting list. The boys and the instruments they will play are named herewith:
Coronets: Melvin Davis, Burgess Perry, Thomas Williams, Raymond Willias, Ernest Provo, Cyrus Aydlett, Lorimer Midgett, Julian Aydlett, Journeay Aydlett, Blacknell Cooke, Elliott Morgan, Wilfred Hopkins, Jack Perry, Paul Willey.
Clarinets: Joe Kramer, William Perry, Allan Bell, Aubrey Gallop, Merrill Griggs, Wesley Sheep, Vernon Chappell, Byron Sawyer.
Saxophones: Roscoe Foreman Jr., Wilson Sanders, Wilburn Smith, Hugh Sawyer, Bradford Sanders, Tom Weeks, Clay Foreman, Walter Cohoon, Selden Mann, Blucher Ehringhaus Sam Twiford, Robert Taylor, Carl Blades.
Flute: Marion Seyffret.
Piccolo: Richard Job.
Altos: Robert Williams, Tyler Sawyer, Claude West, Edward Dunstan, Oscar Meggs, William Anderson, Keith Saunders, Howard Johnson.
Baritones: Francis Jacocks, Horace Wise, Frank Snowden.
Trombones: Jehue Hickman, Robby Lewis, James Ferebee, William Gordon, Burrus Tillett, Littleton Gibbs, Elbert Mann, Woodrow Fulcher.
Basses: Kennedy Hontz, Robert Koontz.
Snare Drums: Aubrey Heath, William Spruill, Randolph Dozier.
Bass Drums: Bobby Fearing Charlie Hules.
Cymbals: William Midgett, George Little.
The Kiwanis-Rotary Committee are: E.F. Aydlett Jr., Chairman; Frank Kramer, secretary-treasurer; A.T. Hawley, publicity director; W.C. Sawyer, drive leader; A.R. Nicholson, J.T. Stallings, S.B. Parker, G.F. Seyffert.
The Band Officers are L.R. Foreman Jr., President; Jehue Hickman, Vice-President; Wilson Sanders, Secretary; and Melvin Davis, Treasurer.
From the Elizabeth City Independent, Friday, Sept. 12, 1924
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