Alliance High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Alliance, NE)

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Wayne State Music Clinic The 1981-82 choir officers and representatives are: Joann Balderson, Lezlie Adams. Rhonda West. Mike Galloway. Lavon Krejci. John Harris. Tom Lauder. Liz Burkhart, and Tammie Kistler. Music brings out many different responses and reactions in different people. Wayne Davis expresses the joyful side of music, and Mark Jensen shows the more serious and concentrated side of it all. Choir Director Thomas G. Lauder leads the Concert Choir in warm-ups before rehearsing music for an upcoming concert. c n Senior Peggy Thompson accompanies the mass choir during the piece. ‘Home Again.” 28 Concert Choir

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Offer Something for Everyone Troy Hadeen, Jim Watson, Deb Zurn. and Brenda Powell experiment with high tire glazes as part ot an Art IV assignment. Shane Thompson, a student in Art I, carves down the edges of his slab pot before putting on the tinishing touches. Seniors Deb Zurn and Crls Cox work on the difficult task of forming clay into a model of the human head in Art IV. Art classes were created to bring art to everyone. Art I was created to offer a basic introduction to the arts. Art II specialized in adapting and improving the creative skills. Art III focused on the serious student with drawing, painting, pottery, and sculpture. Art IV. designed for seniors considering careers in art after graduation, focused on style. One of the new projects in art this year was a display of artists' work in the glass case outside the office. This not only gave the students a chance to exhibit their art but also allowed their fellow students and teachers to view their work. Art 27

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Festival or BUST! Learning a new song can be difficult, but with a little concentration, it can be done as is demonstrated by the alto section. Tammie Kistler, Tonya Benda, and Linda Pebley work on A Gaelic Blessing. Tenors Tom Beagle. Jeft Harris, and Ralph Gonzalez rehearse the chorus for the May 5 and 6 production of Camelot. From the start of the year until March 16, AHS Concert Choir was what could be called “Wayne oriented. This was the second year that the choir made the 300 mile trek to the Wayne State Music Clinic Festival, under the direction of Wayne State College Choral Conductor Cornell Pumstead. The choir combined with fourteen other choirs from all over Nebraska, as well as Iowa, to form a mass choir and perform three previously selected numbers. The the single choirs each performed two numbers of their own to make for a very interesting clinic. From the beginning of the year, many fund raisers were held to help off-set the costs of the two-day event, including two sock hops, two car washes, a Vocal Music Department sponsored All School Talent Show, which a seven-member band calling themselves “Climax”, unanimously won, a garage sale, as well as introducing the $1.00 admission policy to all public concerts. In spite of and partially because of the day-to-day talk of Wayne, Concert Choir enjoyed its best success of recent years. Supported by a strong bass section, a very large tenor section, and complimented by a deep alto section and a well rounded soprano section, the group was able to do many more difficult and intricate works, which a few years ago would have been called impossible. The choir also enjoyed the experience of working as the supportive chorus in the spring musical, Camelot.’’ Even though this was a new idea brought in by Director Tom Lauder, it appeared to go well. Concert Choir 29