Today we go inside North Penn High School, in different decades, for a look at students associated with the marching band and marching unit.

The first photo was submitted by Margaret Adams of Lansdale, who said she does “not know much about this photo. I believe it’s from the early 1960s.”

In it you see girls marching through the gym, carrying flags and rifles, as students look on from the bleachers.

“I think my husband, Robert Adams (now deceased), trained the girls in a gun drill at North Penn High School.”

So perhaps someone out there can add some information — or perhaps you’re in the photo!

In the next photo, which appeared in The Reporter in 1984, we see a section of the North Penn Marching Knights being directed by Steve Frederick.

In the accompanying article, by the way, it was noted that Frederick, “who stands about 6 feet tall, is a giant in his students’ eyes.”


Hope you enjoy that trip down memory lane, Steve!

But getting back to the Knights in 1984, the feature was written about the band because it had just returned from the Great Bands of the Orange Bowl competition, where it was crowned “grand national champion.”

In a separate competition at the event, the band front also took first prize.

The article noted that 200 bands had applied for four open slots at the Orange Bowl competition, so it was quite a feat just to be chosen, much less take the top prize.