As cream poured into coffee will rise to the top, so the Ennis High Marching Band elevates in the heat of competition. Hosting a University Interscholastic League contest for the first time since the early 1960s, which was at what is now the Lummus Intermediate School stadium, about 20 bands in Region 20, Class 5A and smaller, the mobile sound machines played to the audience and to judges.
Four of them, including Ennis, Ferris, Red Oak and Highland Park, were awarded First Division ratings. Meanwhile, Class 6A schools were moving to music in Duncanville.