Modesto Junior College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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50 1 93 7 - BUCCANEER -uu-un- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1- 1,.,,1uu1,,,,1nu1,,,,..,,,.1m....uu1un1nn1,m1.m1,.,,1un1nu1.. 5, aa are ' Mrs. Edna Barr Love, head of the college music department OUT INTO THE TERRITORY sur- rounding Modesto, into the assembly hall and before civic organizations go the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs to sing for their last year as two separate groups. During the coming school year, combined groups including a men's oc- tette, a women's octette, women's trio, mixed choruses and roundtable singers will represent JC's vocal courses. Some experimentation with the roundtable system was done this year with Jeanne Cool, Charlotte Smith, Alice Pendergrass, Charles Harding, Bruce Selkirk, Carl Hunter, Ralph Knapp, Gordon Pool, and David Ryd- bom as the table singers. Both the glee clubs, men under the direction of Mrs. Edna Barr Love and women under Robert W. McKnight, the oratorio class directed by both in- structors and the A Capella choir direc- ted by McKnight spent a year packed with engagements from assemblies to radio programs. The women sang for high schools in Hilmar, Livingston, Turlock, Ceres, Stockton, and Hayward. Cn May 29th they broadcast over KGO. Likewise, the men sang in high schools in neighboring communities in- The Mens' Glee Club

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BUCCANEER - 1937 . We 49 -nn-.n.,1..,.1m,1nu,..,.1..,.1nn1unn1 .- ..,,,,.-.,,,,..,i,,1m.1un1,q-un1uu-nn-un-un-un-mu... .- 1 ... v-M1 1 1nn1nn-n 'Hi I' ' ff The Modesto Junior College Orchestra site conference band in San Francisco with Prof. Mancini as conference band conductor. Miss Overman, Atkinson and Laurel Kline, drummer, won first places in their divisions, with others placing including Frank Tweed, Thay- er Jones, Jimmy Halverson, Myrtle Thurston and Herman Dorion. The band boasted 146 pieces from 110 schools in California, Nevada, Arizona, Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands. All football games were provided with music by the band this year and ...Ns in addition several basketball games. Programs were also played for high schools in Gustine, Hughson, Hilmar, Manteca, Oakdale, and Escalon. The orchestra was particularly ac- tive in community work this year hav- ing played for the Chamber of Com- merce, Kiwanis Club, Rotary Club Lions Club and Masonic Temple. This group also played for open house in April and for the Stanislaus County Teachers' Meeting in the same month. After hearing the teachers, meeting performance, State Superin- tendent of Schools Dexter pronounced it the finest orchestra I have heard. The orchestra also broadcast over station KPO in San Francisco March 20th and played for a music conference in that city. More than half of this group belong to the Modesto Sym- phony Orchestra, proof enough of its quality. 3 Jean Over-mari, talented '37 flutist

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BUCCANEER - 1937 51 The Women's Glee Club cluding Newman, Patterson, Lodi, So- nora, and Modesto. During Easter vacation in March, the men attended the Westerii Music conference in San Francisco at the Hotel Fairmont in response to an in- vitation. Four years ago this organi- zation received such an invitation for the first time. True Christmas spirit was found when these two clubs combined just before Christmas vacation to sing a pageant in the Presbyterian Church, in candlelight with each member robed in black. And in early May both clubs went to Stockton for the Northern Califor- nia Junior College Music Association. The entire music department, glee clubs, A Capella choir, band and or- chestra pooled their respective talents to present a recital May 25 ch in the Modesto High School auditorium. Combining successfully once more, the men and women sang for bacca- laureate services to conclude their year's activity. Mrs. Love says the caliber of the club was unusually good. She has had three superior groups and counts this year,s among them. McKnight found his group equally Robert W. McKnight, director of Women's Glee satisfactory having done, outstanding workf, Two other vocal groups have repre- sented JC well in the past year, the oratorio class and the A Capella choir. In November the former, a fall organi- zation only, presented Haydn's third mass in the Methodist Episcopal Church.