Music
Memorial Day Parade starting at the Wayne-SimonKenton School around 1956. The person carrying the flag is Lee Peanut Hedrick, a life-long farm hand of Robert Murphy on Point Isabel Rd in Wayne Twp. Peanut carried the flag for over 30 years. Due to health reasons, Dwight Bentley placed a chair in the back of his pickup truck for Peanut's last trip leading the parade. Peanut also drove a Wayne Twp School bus for over 30 years and was a veteran of World War I.
Left: Patty Easter, John Myers, Anne Moore, Karen Gullet, Gladys Davis, Rosalee Smith, Bobby Walker, Cathy Bowermaster, Jim Larrick, Wayne Arnold.
Right: Bobby Sweetman, Donald Danes, Marilyn Ellis, Carmen Compton (?), Mary Swisshelm, Rosemary Georges, Betty Shaffer, Gary Thatcher (?), Carol McClary, last two faces are hidden.
Right: Bobby Sweetman, Donald Danes, Marilyn Ellis, Carmen Compton (?), Mary Swisshelm, Rosemary Georges, Betty Shaffer, Gary Thatcher (?), Carol McClary, last two faces are hidden.
Wayne Twp School (later named Simon Kenton Schools) put a priority on music education.
With the arrival of Helen Milner, the music program expanded and diversified. There had always been an underlying assumption at the school that ordinary farm kids could develop musical talent, both as members of ensembles and as soloists.
Mrs. Milner correctly assumed that a few of her music students would turn out to be extraordinary.
She gave individual instruction at school and she mentored promising students closely from the very beginning. She prepared her best student musicians to participate in the Clinton County Music Competition. As a result of Mrs. Milner’s encouragement and instruction, Simon Kenton was always well represented at the county-wide Competition (as the News Journal article below documents).
With the arrival of Helen Milner, the music program expanded and diversified. There had always been an underlying assumption at the school that ordinary farm kids could develop musical talent, both as members of ensembles and as soloists.
Mrs. Milner correctly assumed that a few of her music students would turn out to be extraordinary.
She gave individual instruction at school and she mentored promising students closely from the very beginning. She prepared her best student musicians to participate in the Clinton County Music Competition. As a result of Mrs. Milner’s encouragement and instruction, Simon Kenton was always well represented at the county-wide Competition (as the News Journal article below documents).
1958 Boys' Ensemble
Click on the video box below to see and hear
the Kenton Song Birds (GG, Judy Hawk, Charlotte Clement)
sing the Kenton Fight Song.
the Kenton Song Birds (GG, Judy Hawk, Charlotte Clement)
sing the Kenton Fight Song.
Below is temp version of Kenton High Boy
sung by GG and Charlotte.