Three majorettes wearing shamrock hats and twirling batons march in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on State Street. Source: Mart Studios, Chicago
Happy Fourth of July! Here is a special treat for everyone. On July 4, 1978, the 11-year-old Illinois Boys Baton Twirling Champion performed on Bozo’s Circus. The show aired on WGN, a local Chicago station. It was preserved by The Museum of Classic Chicago Television, also known as Fuzzy...
Rural New Mexican Norm Crider was born in 1938 and influenced a generation of French and Italian baton twirlers. Here are 15 facts about the late international champion and college feature twirler. 1 Born in 1938 in Lordsburg, New Mexico, he spent most his childhood in Southwest New Mexico....
Shirley Skriven, 15, for two years National high school baton twirling champion, scores another triumph at the World’s Fair of 1940 in New York when she appears stih the Morgan Park High School Bankd of Beverly Hills, Chicago (Source: Leo Casey, Director of Publicty, World’s Fair of...
The following information was discovered on an expired website page on an Internet archive. It was not easy to find or navigate. But, we’re glad we were able to preserve this in an easily accessed location, especially the images. The article was written in 2005. We added the subheads. We...