Belmont High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Belmont, MA)

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BELMONT HIGH SCHOOL BAND Keeping in mind the memorable accomplishments of the “World’s Fail- Band’’ of 1939-40, the band of this year, under the able direction of Warren S. f reeman, has taken large strides towards a complete symphonic organization. New uniforms purchased at the end of last year proved to bring much color to the field all during the football season. Some appearances of the band were at the Legion Parade, Annual Concert and Dance, and Installation of Junior Legionnaires. The Eastern and Western Massachusetts Festivals in the spring of 1941 were among the activities the band participated in. The membership is ever increasing with a steady flow coming in annually from the junior high. A new peak was reached with a total of eighty members. Instrumentation includes some unusual instruments such as the oboe and the bassoon. 1 16 1

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LATIN CLUB The Latin Club, “Summa,” has completed an extremely enjoyable year under the direction of Miss Eteuerwald and Miss Noreen, the faculty advisers. The officers for the year were: Robert Welch and Helen Masson as Consuls (co- presidents); Ruth Abbot, Quaestor Tabulamm (secretary); Joan Wright, Quaestor Aerarii (treasurer); with Arlene Ricci and George DeMars acting as Censors, (Membership Committee). The club has heard several interesting and instructive lecturers: Miss Johnson spoke before “Summa” on “I Am An Enemy of the Good” and also entertained the club with moving pictures of her trip in the Mediterranean. Miss Hutchings, from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, lectured on “Homer and the Iliad” and “The Wanderings of Odysseus.” Dr. Herbert Magoun told us “The Use of Studying Latin” and Dr. Robert Green spoke about the Latin poet, Horace. {15

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HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA The orchestra is one of the divisions of the music department of the Belmont High School. It consisted this year of about forty members. The orchestra supplied music for several ot the assemblies and also assisted in the operetta. It has been the custom of the orchestra at Christmas time to go around to the different schools of Belmont and present a short Christmas program, and this year made the thirty-fourth year that this custom has been carried out. The orchestra also plans to take part in the Spring Festival. 117 }