Marion University - Marionette Yearbook (Marion, IN)

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For the Gospel Messengers Quartet, music days are from one to three or four out of every seven. Traveling approximately 300 miles a week, the quartet has sung in churches of va¬ rious denominations, including Wes¬ leyan Methodist, Friends, Methodist, and Nazarene, in public schools and in numerous other places. By both their singing and their preaching they have ably represented Marion Col¬ lege at W. C. T. U. meetings, high school convocations, funerals, week¬ end conventions, and church services. But behind the performances of quartets, choir, orchestra and all mu¬ sical groups are the long hours of practice, essential to the high quality characteristic of the renditions of M. C. groups. We also see violinist Johnny Bu- nish, a quartet man, whose music, both vocal and instrumental, has de¬ lighted all who have heard him. Time spent in lessons and practice make this possible. Ruth Ellen, accompanied at the piano by Bob Dellinger, in a Monday afternoon recital. These recitals are an educative practice developed by the music department to better pre¬ pare students for public perform¬ ances. Beulah Johnson, sitting at the grand piano in Mrs. Parker’s studio, is doing her share of the work behind the scenes which makes Marion Col¬ lege music days great days.

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UdiC Front row: McGovern, Cox, Wilson, Henry, Thom¬ as, Moorman, Young, Meredith, Simpson. Second row: Wheeler, Lemon, Steinacker, Decker, Prof. Baker, Dellinger, Walker, Gibson, McConn. Back row: Tippey, Woodcock, Ott, Bennett, Wetzel, Banker, Belknap, Fisher. The A Capella Choir, one of the best trained and most capable musical groups on the campus, has an import¬ ant share in the musical ministry of the school. The twenty-four choir members, selected by the director, Professor Herman Baker, at the be¬ ginning of the year, give each week¬ end of the last two terms to churches of various denominations in the Marion area. The choir usually makes two ap¬ pearances each Sunday—one in the afternoon and one in the evening— singing in many kinds of churches to audiences of widely varying types and sizes. The itinerary of the group also includes several appearances be¬ fore conventions in the college church, a week-end tour into Mich¬ igan, extending as far north as Cad¬ illac and Beulah and a one-day ex¬ cursion into Ohio. The choir, practicing twice each week to perfect its musical ministry, has through the past several years become well known among the churches of Marion and north central Indiana and among many churches much more distant. The choir has travelled from northern Michigan to southern Indiana and eastward com¬ pletely across Ohio. They have made their music a dis¬ tinct spiritual blessing wherever they have gone and all have appreciated their services. Twenty-six

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Students’ extra-curricular activities are multitu dinous enough to neces¬ sitate some sort of regulation. Two councils have been established, both of which are characterized by the desirable feature of student and fac¬ ulty cooperation. Since a large share of student ac¬ tivities are carried on through the two literary societies, an Inter-So¬ ciety Council exists to supervise mat¬ ters which concern both societies. Regular tasks of this council, com¬ posed of the president and an elected representative from each society and a faculty member furnished by the faculty, are setting up rules for Marionette sales contest and for in¬ tersociety literary competitions. Oc¬ casionally other matters demand at¬ tention. The Student Council, a compara¬ tively recent establishment, is the official student organ in their relation to the administration. A president elected from the student body, the president and another member of each class, and the two social deans make up the council which acts on matters suggested by its own mem¬ bers or by any other student. Its decisions are submitted to the faculty for final approval. Some of the Council’s regular duties are regulating the number of offices students may hold, directing Arbor Day Clean-up activities, remember¬ ing ill students, and collecting fifteen cents per capita per year. Inter-Society Council: Front row: Alice Mae Goettman, Prof. Dodd. Back row: Robert Waggoner, Ermal Garringer, Mark Walter, Verdon Higgins, Max Banker. Student Council: Front row: Miss Spark, Rose Stair, Erma Steinacker. Back Row: Paul Parker, Jr., Boring Peterson, Kenneth Knapp, Verdon Higgins, Ray Echols, Maynard McConn, Max Banker, Prof. Taylor.