Chisholm High School - Ranger Yearbook (Chisholm, MN)

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MUSIC, MAESTRO, PLEASE And here we are, the ones who really pep up our football and basketball games and add that final touch to our auditorium programs. We're always ready to do our part for special occasions. Do we practice? What good organization doesn't? Four times a week, from four to five-thirty, you can find us at the old grind-but not the same group every night On Monday and Wednesday, the big orchestra plays: on Tuesday, the band: and on Thursday, our small orchestra. No, we don't mind practicing after four o'clockg it's part of the fun of being in the band and orchestra. We really enjoy playing the classics, too, such as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony , and Dvorak's New World Symphony , ---or the lighter music e--e such as Selections from the New Moon and The Three Musketeers . After this June 4, there will be thirteen musicians who can no longer say, We Belong . Being graduated this year are Bertha Aho, Amelia Bozanich, Gloria Cox, Catherine Dosen, Joseph Hren, Gladys Kapa, Ward Kel- low, Avis Panula, John Polenik, Robert Regis, Glenn Rupp, George Schoonover, Anthony Kosmerl, Gerald Adamic, Jack Krause, and I, Ralph Baldrica. All of us can say, however, that we have profited from the four years spent under the direction of our friendly, capable leader, Mr. Louis S. Regis. Orchestra Top row: Hathaway. C. Lindstrom, Setina. C. Auble. Prebil, Schoonover, Hanson. Fourth row: Niemi, Sarghaug, Aho, Mahan, Grzincich, Jokinen, Polenik, Borgeson, Ro. Extrum, Runquist, Tupac A. Kosmerl, Hren, E. Kosmerl, Swanson, Gregerson, Vuicich, Wangensteen, Masisko. Third row: Winquist, Steffensrud, P. Auble, Rupp, Baldrica, Regis, Palmer, Ecklund, Pietila., Kautto, V. Johnson, E. Kapa, Skurla, Sachen, R. Johnson, Tomphor. Second row: Cox, Panula, G. Kapa, Jo. Hudy, Mattson. First row: Kellow, Dosen, C. Hudy, Bozanich, Williams. Director Louis Regis, Kangas, Pagliaccetti, McNiven. Band Top row: E. Kosmerl, Setina, Pechovnik, Kalafatich, Kapa, MacDonald, Ecklund, Niemi, Rupp, Hathaway, Regis, Ewanson, Skurla. Second row: Ethier, Badovinac, Danculovich, Tupac, C- Lindstrom, Ro. Extrum, Runquist, A. Kosmerl, Borgeson Hren, Pictila, Kautto, J. Lindstrom, Ra. Extrum. First row: Schoonover, Auble, Meadows, Tekautz, Jokinen, Polenik, Baldrica, Grzincich, Mahan, Palmer, W. John- son, Krause, Adamic, Prebil. v v

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OUR SPRING CONCERT WAS ALL-AMERICAN I wish you could have heard our spring concert on May 8. Since we did not have a concert last year, this one was doubly enjoyable for' the waiting. Miss Alice Dawson directed the vocal music, Mr. Louis Regis, the instrumental music. To Mr, Victor Hackbarth goes the credit of designing a beautiful Southern stage setting. Miss Ann Hines and Miss Louise Thouin supervised the dance: Miss Lena Bertadatto, the costumes. Now for the concert. The theme: I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear . The orchestra began by playing Allegro from The New World Symphony . The A Cappella Choir sang Exhaltation CGibbl, Lost in the Night CChristiansonJ with Lorraine Frykman as soloist, and Send Forth Thy Light KSchuetkyJ. After the Girls' Choral Club had sung Cradle Song of the Fisherman's Wife CDawsonl, and Shadow March CProtherael, the boys' octet sang the favorite Old Man River CKernJ. The first part ended with Dark Water iJamesJ, Robert Powers as soloist, All God's Chillun Got Wings , and Ezekiel Saw de Whee1 by the A Cappella Choir and the Boys' Glee Club. The orchestra opened the second part of the prograam with Grand American Fantasia iMoses-Tobanil. The theme for this portion of the concert was Gale Rice's poem, Spring has come from the South again, And dreams are in her eyes And music in her mouth again And immortality! As the curtain rose, several couples waltzed round and round while the rest visited informally. The girls wore hoops under their long, full skirts, the Scarlet O'I-Iara type, you know. When the dance ended, the A Cappella Choir swung into Some Folks CFoster7. Leontina Castagneri then stepped forward to sing Mah Lindy Lou 6StricklandJ. When Goldie Mihelich and George Schoonover had 'blended their voices in Carry Me Back To Old Virginia QBlandl, Marjorie Hulme, the sophomore nightengale, sang the lilting Listen to the Mocking Bird fHawthorne-Dawsonb. Following the girls' sextet rendition of Stephen Foster's rnornful Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground , the A Cappella Choir sang another of his songs, O Susanna . Amelia Boz- anich warbled the delightful The Wind's in the South CSprossD. Then 'George Schoonover sang Beauttifu1 Dreamer with the girls' ensemble, and the A Cappella Choir concluded the second part with Southern Mem- ories and My Old Kentucky Home . In the third part, the combined chorus with Amelia Bozanich, soloist, first sang I Hear America Singing . Accompanied by the orchestra, the chorus concluded with America CBlockD. Credit must go to Nancy Ann Stolpe, Marjorie Hulme, and Ruth Hanson for their excellent accompaniments. Now that you've read the program, you know that we really did hear America singing right in our own auditorium.

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Top row Verant Rudstrom Cvar McDougall Cawley, Baldrica. Second row Auble Johnson Borgeson Kalun Prebil, Bradley, Cole. First row Roberts Haraden Stamch Eddy Anderson, Castagneri, Hulme, Tuman. THE NATIONAL F ORENSIC LEAGUE WAS BUSY The members of the National Forensic League went to the speech tourney at Clo- quet and came back State Champions. John Cawley, the president, won first place in or- atory and William Bradley, the vice-presi- dent, was elected president of the Student Congress. Doris Stanich was second in dramatic reading, and Richard Johnson was fourth in oratory. Besides gathering hon- ors, everyone had a good time eating green ice cream and playing the nickleodean tunes of Coosee Coo and Livit I Finske- garna at the Dairy Inn. But perhaps y0u'd like to know more about the league itself. To be a member, a person must be in the upper two-thirds of his class and must have earned twenty forensic points, which will earn him a degree of merit. The league encourages advancement by offering the following degrees for various points: de- gree of honor, fifty points: degree of excel- lence, one hundred points, degree of dist- inction, one hundred fifty points. John Cawley established a new school record by chalking up 357 points, which was 53 points higher than that of the former champ, Ber- nard Hoberman. The league members entered many de- bates and declamatory contests, amassing 1,447 points this year to bring Chisholm's total to 2,208, At left, is a picture of the Christmas tab- leaux, which was directed by Miss Virginia McNicholas.