Co-Directors The band program in the Carbon County School District of Price the and result progressive the Helper, Utah, an organized, of quality is effort to up-grade of instrumental! music through the use of team teaching. The team enterprise of the Price-Helper area is unique in its organization. Here is a cooperative venture of professional equals. The concept of a senior teacher with an assistant was rejected in favor DERRAL L. SIGGARD Woodwind B.S. of the equality of partners. With specialized training in the woodwind, brass and percus- Utah sion Specialist State choirs director University of the band, takes each responsibility GLEN Brass for the perfection of his choir. Band With the elimination of the national band to some College extent. Mr. Williams contests and remained Band,. has, for many years, been the pride of appointment of E. M, (Toot) Willams as band music-loving residents of the cosmopolitan area in marching at the National Band Contest in Band of the Intermountain Price became the home the festival in Price. curtailed State with A Heritage The “Band with a Heritage,” the Carbon High School the Eastern Utah communities in Carbon County. Since the director in 1924, the band has had dramatic support from the of Carbon County. In 1933, the band won national honors was Idaho M.S. Utah State University The Chicago. attended FIFIELD and Percussion Specialist B.A. M.S. Utah State University A. as Festivals and by the advent of World director of the band 1937, War for 30 annually 72 bands I, the band years until movement 1954. Mr. Alvin Wardle directed the band from 1954 to 1959. In 1959, the current directors, Glen Fifield and Derral Siggard, were appointed as co-directors of the band. Under their direction the band movement has enjoyed continued growth in both quantity and quality. The Tournament of Bands which has been beld annually since 1959, has for the past several years featured more than 400 band students. This event annually draws a capacity The crowd Carbon of over Band has 1,300 spectators. consistently won top ratings in region music festivals. In January, 1963, it was selected as the clinic band for the mid-winter clinic of the U.M.E.A. For three years the band has been selected to perform at the Weber Inaviational Concert Band Festival. At the Region VY Concert Band Festival in 1965, the band was given a I plus rating. On this occasion the adjudicator, Dr. Harold Goodman, Director of Music Educaton at BYU, commented: “‘Ths is undoubtedly one of the finest bands in the Western United States.”? On January 15, 1965, the Carbon High School Band was awarded the Outstanding Community Service Award by the Price City Chamber of Commerce. As a marching band, Carbon’s “Dino” Marching band is ranked among the finest in the Western States. In parades or on the football field spectators have learned to listen for the distinctive commands and driving drum cadences that are unique with the Carbon High School Band. January 1, 1966, Carbon’s 120 piece marching band had the unique honor of appearing in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, California. The big “Dino” band has been selected to represent the state of Utah at the International Lion’s Convention in Chicago, July 1967.