Punchard Girl's Band
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The Punchard's Girls Band, founded by music teacher Miriam Sweeney McArdle in 1940, was the only all girl's band in Massachusetts. The band continued as the Andover High School All Girls Band known for "its drilling precision and musical ability". The band members wore sky-blue West Point style uniforms with whie braid and gold buttons with West Point shakos with white plumes. An all boys band was started in the 1960s. The two bands merged in 1972.
See
- Andover a Century of Change:1896 - 1996 by Eleanor Motley Richardson, page 50 (974.45 Ric).
- The Boston Sunday Herald, April 14, 1963
- "School Scrapbook", 1961-1964 (Andover Room)
- "On the march: The early years of Andover's All Girl Band," Andover Townsman, March 8, 2007, p.32.
- "The band plays on: All Girl Band marches through the '50s," Andover Townsman, March 15, 2007, p.36.
--Eleanor 16:48, March 14, 2006 (EST)
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