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OF MELROSE PARK, ILL! OIS
PAUL STONE AND HIS MILITARY BAND
Front row, left to right :-Betty Jane Kalasardo. Senior Majorette; Janet Evans, Junior Majorette; James Good, Howard Agster, Joan Evans, Junior Majorette; Mr. Harry Schuett, Dl'um Major and assistant director. Second row, left to right:-Larry Steffy, Delores Schuett, Richard Hanson, Gordon Anderson, Delores Woehler, Richard Samuels, Robert Thorn, and Robert Geraci. Third row, left to right:-John Kaschycke, Jr., James Lowden, Louis Voss, Jr., Vincent Rossi, Arthur Bergeron, Wilbert Samuels, Jack Mohr, Rear row, left to right:-Robert Stockmann, Ralph LaOombe, LeRoy Steinhebel, Wilbert Triebes, Bud Gearing, Lois Wendt, June Voss, and Paul Stone, Director. Band members not in the picture: June Eilert, June Hoffert, Thomas Bumond and Charles Agster.
PAUL F. STO E
Paul F. Stone was born at 714 N. 14th Avcnue, on FebI'uary 4, 1913 in Meb'ose Par!,:, 111., where he was raised and educated. At the age of 17 years he conducted his first band whose inh'oductory performance was befol'e the St. Paul's school of Melrose Park, in the yeal' 1930, On April 21, 1930 he marl'ied Miss Louise 'Vhetstone of MelI'ose Park, Illinois. He opened a studio at 1716 Lake str'eet in 1936. The ages of the children in the band range fl'om 6 to 17 years. The band has played in the Chicagoland Music Festival seven times holding 4th place in the festival six times. At pl'esent they hold 4th place. The band has played approximately 150 performances in the past 3 , years. The Mi ses Joan and Janet Evans, twin majol'ettes, are but six years old, the youngest in the country.
JOAN and JANET EVANS