Easthampton High School - Echo Yearbook (Easthampton, MA)

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music was practiced and it was a proud child who could do a copy acceptable to Mr. Lovell. For this was not just a music room, it was a 1'oo1n of music in tl1e making-quite a different thing. The pictures of symphony orchestras, bands, ensembles and soloists de- noted another side of music interest. Think of the joy of taking an eager boy or girl to his first hearing of a great orchestra. That was a pleasure Mr. Lovell had many times each year. Mr, Lovell will know who to give it to,'l was al- ways the first thought when there were unused concert tickets. Several people bought extra course tickets for the Smith college and Springfield concerts year after year for him to give to his pupils. The wonderful spirit of camaraderie which ran strongly through all this organization included all who had ever met here. It was the natural outgrowth of Mr. Lovell's own great spirit of friendliness. Up to Mr. Lovell's room, has been a phrase denoting happy activities and interests through all these years. We are grateful we have had its inspira- tion. We shall keep its happy memories while we mourn its passing. EVELYN L. TAINTOR, E. H. S., '95 ten

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Varied, also, have been the fine selections chosen for the Glce Club, always keeping in mind the young voices that must not be strained, but guarded for days to come when the lovely tones would grow richer and fuller with the years. One must not forget the delighted and sympathetic audience that listened year after year to beautiful playing and singing, completing the musical family, -the player, the singer, and the listener, all wafted backward to the years of long ago when Mendelssohn, and the other masters, God's choicest gifts to man, wove the harmonies that will endure through the ages. We, the Alumni of the Easthampton' high school salute you, William I.. Lovell! We wish you God speed, and many years among us. MARY FRANCES Downn, E. H. S. '94 UP TO MR. LOVELL'S RO0M Reprinted by permission of The Springfield Republican Easthampton, May 4- It was the passing of a town institution when W. L. Lovell's music room in the Main-street block was given up this year. For 25 years it has been the loved meeting place of people of all ages and all nation- alities in Easthampton. As early as 7 o'clock on summer mornings small boys assembled on the steps waiting for it to open. Midnight often saw its closing for older people. All day and every day there was something doing there. The room itself im- pressed you as a place essentially for young people, a music workshop, rather than the regulation music studio, Mr. Lovell had a way of making his pupils interested, not only in playing music, but in everything about music-how different instruments were made, how played how repaired, what parts you had to buy for them, how the music for them was written. So it was no wonder there was usually an interested group looking through the glass doors of the big book cases at the boxes of strings, bridges, reeds, and other accessories, and at the violins, flutes, clarinets and other instruments he had on hand. The older pupils were fascinated with the piles of orchestral compositions and the tiny score books beside them. He got many of his pupils interested to learn to read the music for and to play more than one instrument. One earnest high school boy learned to arrange the empty chairs in orchestra fashion and prac- ticed reading a score and giving cues to an imaginary orchestra. Reading scores as victrola or radio symphonies were being played was another activity often seen. The desk table was always piled high with sheet music and manuscript music, a flute or horn or 'cello part being worked out in simpler form for some beginner in the orchestra. At this table the use of the queer pen for writing nine

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Table of Contents COVER DESIGN .AA........,.........,,..4...,,,....4,,,.....,..,........,.............,........,.,....... .A.......,......, N orman Copson '35 FOREWORD . DEDICATION TO MR. WILLIAM L. LOVELL An Appreciation ...,4.......,.....,,.......,...................... . .,,.,.....,A.............4,,..,....... .A,....A.......,. A dele Laprade '35 An Appreciation ...............,.. ............,, IX Iary Frances Dower '94 Up to Mr. Lovell's Room .....,.... ...A,.... .ooo.,...A E v elyn L. Taintor '90 EDITORIAL The New English Course ,,,. ..... , .....4.,A..............., W arren Lux '36 Changes Welcomed ......,.,,......,..,.............,........ .,....,......... IN Iary Anderson '36 Welcome Freshmen ..l....,,,....,,l...... , .l...,...,......,,,. ..l,.....l..ll............... G eorge Gossett '35 Appreciation Miss Brennan's Work .ll....... ..lll... .ll.. D o rothy Krumpholz '37 Pro Merito Revival of Lyceum .,,,,.,..... ..........,,....... N Varren Lux '36 The Lyceum Bulletin ...,..... ........,,..... C hcster Earus '36 LITERARY Visit to the Polish Embassy ..,.......l.,...........,l,,.,....... .l,l........, A nthony Lis '35 Negro Superstition Leads to Destruction ........,,........ Edwin Kurtz '36 On Going Abroad at Home Local Boy Makes Good .........,. Wrong Suitcase ..,,......,.......,,.,......l. Class 1935 Song ..l,.l..............,.. Class 1935 History ,,..,...... Class Poem ...l..,....l......ll...,.,,l,. Class Prophecy ...,...,..,... ....,..,l.. REVIEW OF THE YEAR In Memoriam Ivy Day Program, 1934 E. H. S. Graduation, 1934 Graduation Prizes, 1934 Assembly Gatherings ,..,,,......,.,. Student Council ...........,............. Pro Merito Meetings ....,..... Lyceum ....,..,.,....,,......,,,.............. Senior Play One Act Play ,, Class Parties ....,..........................,.... Glee Club .............,,.......,..,......,,,......,,...... Junior - Senior Promenade .. .......,,.. Helen Wrobleski '35 ...........Dorothy Merrick '38 ..........,,Franklin Mullaly '36 Henrietta Stawarz '35 Earle Mullen '35 .. ..,,............. Anthony Lis '35 ...........Dorothy Ewing '35 ......,....Robert Ewing '35 , ,................,.... Julia Majka '37 7 .,,.......,,...,Mildred Hourihan 37 .............Gladys Kaprasiewski '35 7 .....,,,,......Dorotliy Gosselin 38 .......,....Edwin Kurtz '36 ..,.........Julia Trytko '35 Adeline Sliz '35 eleven