“Diggers” Sons and Daughters
The success of the Monash Band at the South Australian Public Schools’ Bands’ Championship at Glenelg was popular with the people that witnessed the colourful parades. There was quite a medley of colours among the 11 bands that competed, and the dapper drum majors and their mascots presented quite a professional and finished appearance as they led their charges down the main streets of the Bay to the oval. Monash Band, which carried off the aggregate points, was composed of 25 girls and four boys. Most popular with the public, Monash looked extremely neat in their white pleated skirts (Scottish effect) and maroon jackets, and red and white pillbox caps set jauntily on their girlish locks. All the girls and boys in this band attend the Monash School, but many of them will be leaving to join the Berri Secondary School shortly. Nearly all are daughters and sons of returned soldiers who have settled on the Murray in comparatively recent years. The Mail (Adelaide), 4/12/1937.
Monash, Monash, Mon Mon Mon,
Are we any Tres bon bon?
Tickle-oh, the piccolo,
Tootle-oo the flute,
Mon. . . Mon. . . MONASH!
Back row: Darcy Nielsen, Betty Evans, Shirley Luby, Jewel Whitelaw, Betty Soderberg, Blanka Tassie, Fay King, Erica Hammond
3rd row Beryl Soderberg, Phyl Millington, Barbara Worman, Bill Millington (Lieutenant and Bass drummer), Audene Whitelaw (Captain), Bruce Hocking, Megan March, Connie Hallam
2nd row Mr. MacAvenna, Judith Cox, Gwenda Harding, Pat Barry, Maureen Fisher, Normie Brown, Joyce McLaren, Stan Dyer, Audrey Cook, Mary Bollenhagen, Phyllis Dyer, Mr. Kuss
Front Cynthia Bigg (side drummer), Bill Harris (cymbals), June Traeger, Gwenda March, Adriene Lock, Brian Lock (Drum major), Betty Henwood, Janet Bigg, Yvette Maddern, Lloyd Wuttke, John Johanson (side drummer)
