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1937 The Ranger Annual
Northwestern State Teachers' College

The College Orchestra

The Northwestern Little Symphony Orchestra was organized at the beginning of this year under the Directorship of William F. Deusinger. The start was made with a modest group of about fifteen members. It has grown in a few months to forty members with a good instrumenation which at present includes flutes, oboe, bassoon, clarinets, cornets, trombones, and piano.

The orchestra looks forward with confidence to a continued growth, an enlarging of the insturmentation, the music library (which already contains numerous works by classic and modern composers), and the acceptance of engagements, local and outside of Alva. The director of the orchestra plans to make the Northwestern Little Symphony one of the outstanding college orchestras in Oklahoma.

Several new orchestra instruments such as, bass viols, violas, and cellos were added to the already large number of band and orchestra insturments owned by the College. All of these insturments as well as brass and woodwind are available for use by students qualified to hold membership in the insturmental organizations and in the various instruction classes for string, brass, woodwind, and percussion.

Officers of the Northwestern Little Symphony are as follows:

• President -- Ollie Bowers
• Vice President -- Gideon LaPlante
• Secretary -- Ben Harrover
• Librarian -- Edward Leighton

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