{"id":3919,"date":"2025-07-25T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:24:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T19:24:50","slug":"first-parsons-school-band-circa-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/first-parsons-school-band-circa-1948\/","title":{"rendered":"First Parsons School Band, circa 1948"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">from the photograph collection of B. R. Jennings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/first_school_band.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/first_school_band-1024x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/first_school_band-1024x630.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/first_school_band-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/first_school_band-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/first_school_band-1536x945.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/first_school_band-1320x812.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/first_school_band.jpg 1786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"pic_center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>left to right:&nbsp; Thomas Graves, Mary Nell Luna, James Myracle Bowman, Billy Ralph Durham, Jerry Laster,<\/em> <em>Alfred Tate Rogers, Glenn Wallace, Jack Hays, Bowman Rains, Joe Louis Luna, Billy Ray Jennings<br><\/em><em>standing:&nbsp; Director: Ms. Gussie Tate<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This band was composed of a group of students from Parsons who took private lessons from Ms. Gussie Tate from Decaturville.&nbsp; Ms. Tate taught from <i>Jenkins&#8217;s Beginners Band Book<\/i>.&nbsp; The band was not a school sponsored group but they did play at school functions.&nbsp; It was a precursor to Parsons school bands that developed in later years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the photograph collection of B. R. Jennings left to right:&nbsp; Thomas Graves, Mary Nell Luna, James Myracle Bowman, Billy Ralph Durham, Jerry Laster, Alfred Tate Rogers, Glenn Wallace, Jack Hays, Bowman Rains, Joe Louis Luna, Billy Ray Jenningsstanding:&nbsp; Director: Ms. Gussie Tate This band&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"tngenwebproject@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/author\/tngenwebprojectgmail-com\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/category\/yesterdays\/school\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">School<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">School<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 months ago","modified":"Updated 9 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 25, 2025","modified":"Updated on July 25, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 25, 2025 3:23 pm","modified":"Updated on July 25, 2025 3:24 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3923,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}