Nancy Webber played clarinet in the Porterville High Panther Band under the direction of the from 1975 until 1979 when she graduated, but she was also an Orange Blossom marching in the band from 1978 to 1979,as well.

She donated her Orange Blossom boots to the revitalized the exhibit that features Buck Shaffer and the Panther Band at the Porterville Historical Museum, and sewed a complete Orange Blossom outfit circa the late 1950's to 1960 with the letter P for an American Girl doll that's now in the display. The doll has red lips painted on, because all Orange Blossom girls had to wear the same lipstick and make-up.

Nancy explained famed band leader Frank "Buck" Shaffer had the Orange Blossom girls line up in band formation from the shortest to the tallest in the middle, and back down t

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