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Nopper's Juvenile Band

Contemporary citations document Walter J. Nopper’s juvenile and 58-piece boy-and-girl Scout band.

Nopper s Juvenile Band Sunday-school parade
Nopper s Juvenile Band Sunday-school parade · Original source
Nopper s Juvenile Band 58-piece scout band
Nopper s Juvenile Band 58-piece scout band · Original source
Nopper s Juvenile Band corroborating size report
Nopper s Juvenile Band corroborating size report · Original source

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People and leadership

Walter J. Nopper recruited and trained the juvenile ensemble; the reviewed evidence does not yet supply a complete assistant or successor-director list.

Community and organization

Nopper's Juvenile Band is treated as a school, youth, cadet, scout, agency, or honor-band subject under the approved educational collection. Historical membership is described only to the level the sources establish.

Reading the evidence

The evidence for Nopper's Juvenile Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats 1920–1922 as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.

Questions for further research

For Nopper's Juvenile Band: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.

Dated evidence in this record
  1. 1921-03-31

    A contemporary Guthrie newspaper identifies Nopper’s Juvenile Band participating in a Sunday-school parade on March 31, 1921.

  2. 1922-03-23

    Two contemporary March 23, 1922 newspaper references identify Nopper’s Juvenile Band as a 58-piece boys-and-girls scout band.

Sources

  1. www.guthrieeyecare.com/post/the-scout-band-of-guthrie-1920-1922
  2. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc88619/m1/5/
  3. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc120646/m1/4/
  4. gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc88670/m1/5/