Tossing Above Silo Joyce Rice grew up on her family’s farm in Greenfield, Iowa, where she practiced tossing her baton higher than the silos. According to an article in the Creston News at the age of 17, she was named the “best baton twirler in the world”, after “defeating...
Three majorettes wearing shamrock hats and twirling batons march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on State Street. Source: Mart Studios, Chicago
Such a fabulous picture of Buddy Ronald “Ronnie” Lowery (1953-2018), feature twirler for Northeastern Oklahoma A&M, 1968. Lowery was 18 and a college freshman at the time as well as the five-time reigning Oklahoma baton twirling champion, as reported by the Oklahoma Times. In addition to...
Patsy Bedford Kaufman was a Winters, Texas Blizzards Baton Twirler in 1952. This was reportedly the first year the twirlers wore these short costumes, which featured fur trim. Where is Winters, Texas? Winters, Texas is located south of Abilene, Texas and northeast of San Angelo, Texas, so I bet...
The remaining original Purdue Silver Twin, Sharon J. (Roeske) (Wendt) Wesch, Ph.D., died in February. She and her sister Karon made their debut as the Purdue Silver Twins in the fall of 1960. Karon died in 2003, at the age of 60. The Silver Twins were created by the late Purdue Band Director Al G....
