Originally published in The Vidette-Messenger of Porter County on March 5, 1946.
Kouts Music Boosters Run Into Man-Power Problem
By HERB STEINBACH
KOUTSーThe Kouts Music Boosters continue to function on behalf of improved musical education for the school pupils of their community, but the groups are not in as high a gear as they visioned when they organized early this winter.
This lack of an overall spark has been quite noticeable in recent meetings, and became more apparent than ever Monday night when the March meeting was held in the school building, with only 12 people present.
“It seems as though there are only a minority who are carrying on the work of the Music Boosters here in Kouts,” President Walter Newsom reported. “Our fund raising programs have been well patronized, but there are not enough people in the community who are taking an active interest in our business meetings.”
Junior Band to Play
In order to provide additional stimulus for a better turnout at the April 1 meeting, the Boosters have announced that the junior band, under the direction of Miss Muriel Wood, will make its public debut that night with a ½-hour concert.
Newsom states that a program by the junior band will help boost the youngsters’ musical enthusiasm, and at the same time it should attract more parents to the meeting.
The Boosters have approximately $300 in the treasury now, it was announced at Monday’s meeting, but the final report in the recent public dance proceeds was not complete.
This coming thursday, Mar. 7, another Booster project, showing of moving pictures to the public once a week, gets underway. The initial movie, starting at 7:30, will be “Pecks Bad Boy at the Circus.” a matinee for school children will be held that noon.
Sub for PTA
Pictures are to be shown at the school during five successive weeks. They are to be held on successive Thursdays, with the exception of the second show, “Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” which will be shown Friday, Mar. 15, because the Farm Bureau has a meeting scheduled at the school for Thursday, Mar. 14.
Not only are the Boosters helping spread musical education in the community, but it is becoming apparent that they are being looked upon as a P.T.A. pinch-hitter, inasmuch as the town has no Parent-Teacher association.
During the latter part of April the club will be called on to furnish a committee to help doctors and nurses who will make a physical checkup of children of preschool age who are to enter the first grade in September. President Newsom as yet has not appointed this committee.
