Abilene High School - Orange and Brown Yearbook (Abilene, KS)

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Grnana Clirnaxes Isancls Activities Musicians Receive Trip To National Contest for Dating I-iiqhig Superior at Salinag Dresents Spring Concert ITH THF CLOSE of the 1937-38 school year. the Abilene high school band wound up its twenty- seconcl year as an organization for the better- 1ne11t of instrumental music in Abilene high school. The band, under the direction of Earl R. Ray, op- ened its season very successfully on September 21, 1937, XYl'lC1l a group of sixty-five musicians journeyed to Hutchinson for the Kansas State Free Fair. The group was resplendent in their new uniforms consist- ing of an orange satin jacket with a zipper front and brown wool patch pockets, On the breast pocket was the A. H. S. monogram. The rest of the uniform consisted of white trousers, an overseas cap and an orange tie. The band's goal for the year was to be able to at- tend the National Regional Music Contest which was to be held in Omaha, Nebraska. ln view of this fact, the group started earning money early in the season. On the afternoons of September 28 to October 1, in- clusive, the band played for the western performances of the Central Kansas Free Fair. At the end of that week the coffers were just 375.00 better off, VVith the arrival of the football season the musical aggregation was awarded a free trip to Manhattan for the annual homecoming game at which time they were privileged to witness a chapter of the eternal feud between Kansas State college and Oklahoma During the local football season Professor Ray en- tertained the fans with a small military band. This year the leadership of the marching band was in the hands of llliss Bonnie lllilham who showed excessive talent in baton twirling. The Abilene band also entertained many local civic organizations throughout the year. On October 27, the band gave a short concert for the Rotary club at its regular weekly meeting. In addition to this, Mr. Ray had many small ensembles who played for va- rious occasions such as Hi-Y, G. R., church organiza- tions, women's clubs and the men's civic clubs. The instrumental department gave a public concert' on March 31. 1938. Included in the program were such selections as Heigh Ho fro111 the picture Snow lYhite and the Seven Dwarfs. Builders of Youth which was the required Class B contest number for the National Regional contest, and i'National Vic- tors. On April 14, Professor Ray took his instrumental group to Salina where they entered the National Reg- ional qualifying contest. Upon returning to Abilene, the group had six of their nine entries eligible for the national contest. The ratings for those eligible are as follows: band, highly superior, brass sextet, su- perior, cornet solo, superior and bass clarinet, excel- university. Isanci 1 Flutes-Keel, MeCleskey, Stradtner, Harris. Oboes-Course, YYe1ler, Hicks. Clarinets-Nieolay, Leckron, McCosh, VVylder, Stone, Keel, Chai-5m2lU, WVRF- ner, Stants, Covert, Foltz, McKee, Voss- lqyh, Eggleston, ldmig, Kinderdiek, Bar- ber, Asling, Bert, Hansen, Strowig. Alto Clarinets-Hess, Funston. Bass Clarinets4Keast, l'arizo, Souders, Bas- soons-Seriven, Callahan, Rizor. Saxophones-Alto, Meuli, Callahan, Summerfieldg tenor, Hake: bklrilolw, Leekron, llamey. COI'Il8tSfl':I'llllliLll, Knox, Fowler, Strowig, Lowry, Carl- son, Hoyer, Gary, NVil1ia1ns, Orth, Blazer, Stone, French 1'IOI'l'lSff1ql11tlt5l - dick, Townley, Vickers, Milhain, llob- inson, YVit-clower, Landis. Baritimiic-sl XVel1e1', Hesselbarth, Say, Clark, lirieh. 'lYl'lJllll70llE'S-cillllS, Tliompson, Berger, Nichols, Eisele, lirown, Thimsen. Basses-Jordan, Long, Neis, James, Pooler, XVhite. String Bass-Gary. lfor- eussion-Polley, XYorley, Patterson, YVisby, Blaesi, Long, Kenney, .Patter- .son, Asling. t EARL 11. RAY Instrumental Music John Tarleton Agr. Col- lege North Texas S t a t e Teachers' College Southwestern Band and Orchestra Conserv- atory Simmons University T e x a s Technological College University of Kansas lent. f'lll'lSllllilS story and poem contest. NVQ- knock off for Christinas vaca- tion. 28th-Miss Nelson blossoms ont in a IICNV Chevrolet. JANUARY 3rd-Gleiin Mehl has a eraek- up at the intersection of First and Buckeye. -lth-Senior class vetoes class rings and pictures. Cowboys win their first C. K. ll. tilt from the Ellsworth Bearcats. 7th-Cowboys eked out by liigzlily-touted Salina Maroons, 19 l lo IS. lorh-Mr. Rock shoots up to Clyde to assist in installing a Lions club there. 11th-The gift to the school from the class of 1937 finally ar- rives: a nineteen volmne set of the XVorltl Book. 17th-Joyce Burnette decides she has a crush on Bob Polley. ifltli-Barbara Sue takes ad- vantage of l'1tliering:ton's feminine respect and wails his knob. 21st-lhiinoretl that Mr. YVise hurt his ankle doing the 'tBig Ap- ple.

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Dicnic Tops Off Hi-Y Year with Homer Weller as Dresideni, the Hi-Y Secures Manu Dromineni Businessmen as Speakers for the I5i-uueelelu Meetings, Successful Year as a Whole HE JXBILIINIC HlGH SCHOOIXS Hi-Y organiza- tion has just completed another successful year under the guidance of Doyle Brooks and Roy Martin. The directors, during the past year. were as fol- lows: Homer lYelle1', president, XYinston Kinderdick. vice-presidcntg lfred Gans, program chairman, Tom Harris, secretary: Bob Bauman, treasurerg Dale Ber- ger and Merven Neis, student council representatives. The purpose of organizing the Hi-Y is to create and maintain, in the community and school, the high standards of Christian character by banding the boys together for clean living, clean speech, clean sports, and clean scholarship. ln the fall, the club held their annual picnic which was held at the Red Bud lake. There were plenty of hot dogs, soda pop, and apples to be consumed by the approximately one-hundred boys present. The games which the boys played were soft-ball and a good game of tug-o-war. Throughout the year, the club held bi-weekly meet- ings for which the program committee provided many interesting speakers such as Max lXloXley, Rev. Ralph Taylor, R. Long, Bill Willis, Harold Sappenfield, C. G. Malin, George Yeadon, john Lehman, and Kenneth Rock. lllax Moxley presented a vivid picture of the ever-changing Europe which was very interesting. Llilrd-l-'zlcnlty has a turkey vlmpcl. dinner. 2-ifll--lVillIl01' Kuhn and Eddie Gnnzelman on KFBI to aid in the Red l'ross drive. 125th-t'owboys defeated by Flay Center in the Turkey Day gzune. tl1in,2's. debate at Topeka. DI'ZCEMl5liR Iird-Seniors please a full house with t'Silas h12ll'l191'.U Har- mon. Keel and Boyd have leads. -itll-In-bzite tournament here. iitlllxvitdlilil Lion's club quar- tet and girls' trio entertain in Tth-Van Usdol and the journ- alism class hash over a few lltliktflboiincll. lloran, Rns- sell, Chrisnian, Crans and XVOIILIEI' ltith-XVilma Stat-hli selected for ID. A. R. 1'llgl'iIll2l20. 1Ntl1-Grii'e Sexton gives i1n- prvssive Cliristinas lnessageg sub- ject: Tho Mississippi River. llannds down Marion in SVZlSlll1.S ops-ning' baslcotbzill granle. 33 to li. 21 st-Harriet Harbeek and Dick Young win prizes in the Boostr-r's Rev. Taylor was the speaker for the annual Christmas club meeting, His talk was concerning the be- ginning of Christmas. R. Long, an active Abilene business man, gave a talk in which he related his i11- teresting trip to Europe. Sportsmanship in Life, was the subject upon which Bill Willis gave a very earnest talk. The first speaker of the year was Har- old Sappenfield, who told of his experiences in China, this talk being based on the adventures of his trip around the world several years ago. C. G. Malm made a very unique chalk drawing of a typical coun- try landscape scene during one of the club's meet- ings. George Yeadon, local game warden. presented for the club an interesting discussion pertaining to the dangers of hunting. Following his talk, an.open forum was held in which the club members asked questions in connection with hunting. In one of the most interesting talks of the year, John Lehman, county attorney, told of the methods used in captur- ing criminals. Kenneth Rock, the speaker for the Halloween meeting, gave a humorous talk entitled, Do Fish Perspire? Bryce McCormick, Ruth Soud- ers. Warren I-laslouer, Katherine Black, and Warren Logan, students of Miss Christmore's dramatic class, presented the play, The Underdog, April 5. The club enjoyed the production very much. HI-Y Executive l5Od Fd Seated, Left to flight-Homer YVel- ler, prvsidentg Mervin Neis, student council representative: XVinston Kin- derdielc, vice-president, llobert Ban- man, treasurer, lfale Berger, student council representative, Tom Harris, secretary, and Fred Gans, DFOSFHIH chairman. Standing-Mr. ltoy Martin and Mr. Doyle Brooks, sponsors. IJOYLE K. BROOKS Mathematics Ft, Hays Kansas State, B. S., M. S. 5 .-

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Chorus ls Superior At Emporio Receives Highest Qotihq Given: Date Ah Excellent at Soliho Contestg Dresehts Christmas Concert Over KFBI HIC lXllXlflJ CIIURUS, under the baton of Henry lYise. had a successful year, doing more work than has been done in several years. The separate glee clubs worked mainly on music for the chorus: the boys' glee club met Tuesday and Friday mornings at 7:50. and the girls' glee club at 3130 Monday and Thursday afternoons. The mixed chorus met every Monday. ltednesday and Thursday during the activ- ity period. XYhen the all-school l'ennv Carnival was held the 4 - 4 glee clubs sponsored a fortune-telling liootli, with l'atricia Townley as general chairman. Cln Sunday, December Io. the mixed chorus gave .a concert over radio station Klflsl, featuring six- teenth century hymns and Christmas carols. Many directors from other towns gave as their criticism that the chorus sounded like a professional choir. Three concerts were given this year: one to the grade schools on March 243 one to the high school and junior high, March 253 and a formal concert was giv- en March 25 for the public. The chorus journeyed to Salina to participate in the district music contest on Thursday, April 14, They sang Agnus Dei and Adoramus Te, Christe and received an excellent rating. The girls' glee club received a superior rating on two selections, The Lfitli-.Iournalisin class starts on History of 1'larI,v Abilene. 28th-Marie Kenny tliinks New in Canada. .It-rsey is at sweater. Iilst-Czlgt-i's are guests at the Lions elull. nlilltlgu Allen is the speaker. tith-Myra Ilurd air-conditions tttgytgy wisp: 1 l'31iHVARY Roek's waste basket by kiekilli VW-at gfusic lst-Rei' Rlflllfltls tledieates 11 it hott- in it, ilimpiirta stare, n. s. song to his current heart-tlirolu. 11111-Alll1ll1ll-SQITIIIQ contest Iionnie Cillltlllilll. between boys and girls begins. Bud-I'aul Collins, Roy Martin. and Fred Allison attend the Gola den Gloves boxing tournament at Salina. executive meeting. Ilrd-llarris, Maelien. ind Krlilll- W foyle st-ntl up a balloon that lands ltlisftl. A. A. kid party. livery- one looked natural for .i tliange. Ktlihllarheek and tluilfoyle tlirow one at I1ill's house YVinner gets a lialf-liolidav 14th-Myra Ilurd and Xvlllllil XVenger are Iiostesses at the G It Nightl' and 'Wthen .joseph lYas .X-XYalking. The girls' small ensemble, singing Xtednesday, .Xpril 13, was awarded an excellent rating for their interpretation of i'Ye Xtho The I.onging Know. Mem- bers of the ensemble were: Ramona lioyd arid tier- trude Gough. sopranosg Doris XYeller and Melva Kla- t'ie Callaltail, secolttl Stlllflllltlfsl eau ,Xsling and Kath- erine lfllack, altos. Soloists and their ratings at the district contest were: Ramona Boyd, soprano, goodg Blelva Marie Callahan, medium, goody Darrel Clark, tenor, av- erage: Donald Howell, baritone, highly superiorg lhe mixed chorus, girls, glee club, girls' small en- semble and soloists took part in the state music con- test, held in limporia. .Xpril .26-39. The same contest pieces were used. The ratings were: mixed chorus superior: girls' glee club, excellent: girls' small en- semble, composed of Ramona Boyd. Gertrude Gough, llelva Marie Callahan and .lean Asling, superior, The soloists and their ratings were: Ramona Boyd, goodg hlelva ltlarie Callahan, superior: Donald Bowell, su- perior. A few of the contestants were fortunate in hearing Helen Jepson, world famous opera and radio star. .Ns has been the custom for several years, the vocal music department furnished the music for the Bac- calaureate service, Sunday, May 15. t Chorus I First Itow, Left to lliglttkli. tfrans ' U. NX'oods, li. Townley, A. Bischoff, D Ibit-kinson, Il. Gufrler, Ifl. XXX-iyaiit, T Stants, V, Ilosie, A, Clark, Il. Phelps XY. Hicks, IC, linriprht, Il. Stunts 1 , Iiutvell. lxee, li. xxtlI'lt'j', W. Slut-llli, ll, Slllltlt'I'S, I'. Townlev, H. YYilkins, M. Laughlin, Y. Iiandis, Ii. Summerfield, ll. XVeller, H. Callahan, Il. Harmon, M. Murray M. Herr, Il. Hll11llJ2ll'g'L'I', M, Hill, V Ilelfloff, I', Smith. Third Iiow, Left to llight-t', Funk, I. St-riven, Ii. Frahni, Il. Mustarid, M. Van Sickle, I. Franklin, M. Murray, E. Viekiiisoii, I.. Thompson, M. Iiohman, XY, llavis, 1' Covert, Il. Iimig, I.. Has- louer, J, XVelsh, M. Iiinigr, P. Helm. Fourth llow, Lett to Iliuht -D. Clark, .I. t'hrisman, IZ. Keel, IG. Neis, M. XX'ylder, ll. Harheek, M. Kenny, F. Sexton, Ii. Milliam, Il. 'l'ol'l'I', li. lillielk Y. t'orniaek, I.. .XslinL:', sl Cot't't-It, Iii. Stunts, II. 3let'leskt-y, K. Black, J. Asling, I'. Ilay, B, Met'ormit-k, Fifth Ilow, Left to Iliglitflh tiar- ver, H. NYist-, It. Haslout-r, F. Mt-Hoyle, Il. lloyd, II. Iltttehison, IC, liarlit-i', H. Iiztlir, II. tfllt-ll, J, Iiurnette, tl. tlourh, M. XX'ilniore, If. Hath, Iv. Iliekt-man. -1- -- -- -- M. t'allalian, M. Nelson, I., Nottort, F. Iiannian, Il. Yiekers. , . ,MI t'oIeman, Ii. Starr, L. Phelps, H. Stone, Il :st-eond Ilow, Left to liightftb, Mc- y V, Allison, A. Clark, Iiut-ille Ilavhoff,