Murray High School - Pilot Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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2 IQ f ' 0 LC ang LIQJJ As the pocket edition is to a best seller, so 1 , the Iunior Band is to the Senior Band. There is the same high quality, but smaller in size! These musicians are the backbone of future Murray bands. Demonstrating their abilities here are Marjorie Wacklin, Iames Preus, and Roy Milton, clarinetist, flutist, and baritone horn soloist respectively. The big event for these seventh, eighth, and ninth graders, however, was their special con- cert given for their classmates and parents on March 12. In addition to those pictured, featured mem- bers were Esther Burgess, Gail Holzinger and the trumpet duet, Patsy Carlson and Charles Hedenstrom. x Ioan Morgan, Geraldine Pearson, Donald Wilson, Audrey Stephenson, Barbara Christianson, Iean Ansley, Ican Eyler, Barbara Pro- shek, Harold Forsberg, Marilyn Figg, Evelyn Hanson, Dona Lee Horton, Genevieve Kulenkamp, Donald Ausemus, Iohn Davidson, Roy Milton, Richard Olsen, Douglas Fenderson, Gerald Moberg, Darrell Douglas, Eugene Sargent, Wayne Rolph, Ward Iensen, Clarence Schaffncr, Patricia Carlson, Charles Hedenstrom, Duane Whaley, Iohn Fenderson, Charles Weigt, Iames Wilcox, Warren Fillmore, Carleton Brookins, Vernon Iudisch, Betty Boss, Sam Gray, Ianet Tripp, Russell Prickett, Gail Holzingcr, Iack King, Suzanne Preus, David Youngren, Iacqueline Grendahl, Neil Atkinson, Sylvia Kenaston, Howard Venners, Earlene Petrie, David Eide, Mary Iverson, Faith Skepstad, Iune Gunard, Grace Ellsworth, Denis Bakke, Keith Davis, Helen Finger, Ellen Gammell, Iack Folsom, Roger VVood, Paul Miclke, Thomas Cummings, Richard, Thomas, Nancy Baker, Donald McGrath, Marjorie Moore, Ioan Proshek, Marjorie Wacklin, Ioan Oakins, Bruce Schroeder, Iames Bailey, Esther Burgess, Iames Preus, Iames Colherg, Pamela Haas, Donald Olson, Donald Money, Patricia Shannon, Ierry Lemke, Robert Ioseph, Robert Stickney. Strike up the band! A shopworn phrase, this, but it takes on a special significance when it is Murray's Senior Band that is ringing out. When Miss Audrey Keneven leads the sixty-eight members in Colors are Elying, .it is a disloyal Murrayite who does not feel a swell of pride. This year, in addition to entertaining the whole school at assemblies, the Band gave two assembly concerts at other schools. - March found the Band at Marshall High School, and in April, they serenaded Humboldt High School. And, of course, the annual Spring band concert, pre- sented May 1 and 2, was a fitting display of talent. Not only can Murray boast an excellent concert band, but it has also become a marching unit. Re- splendent in new uniforms, the marching band made its first public appearance at the University of Min- nesota Agricultural School's Campus Day in May. Page Twentv-three

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First row, left to right: Ed Iohnson, Glenn Steinke, Paul Mielke, Charles Michaelson. Tom Hooper, Roger Adams 9 Dan Neale, Herbert Moon, Robert Bulger, George Semple, William Hilgedick, Donald Cromer, Robert Ioseph 9 Lindsay Christlieb, Ioseph Horvath, Allan Arnason, Richard Holmsten, Karl Koeneke, Donald Pickering, Charles Grose. Hear ye! Hear ye! A proclamation to all young men of good character and fine physiquef, The na- tional Young Menls Christian Associationis announce- ment that it was going to open a branch in the high school was met by immediate approval. As a result, some twenty-three young men at Murray have an- swered this call. Board Plans Valentine Dance Seated left to right: Bob Bulger, Ioe Horvath, Karl Koeneke, and Allan Arnasong stzznding: Don Cromer, Charles Grose, and Herbert Moon. Page Twenty-two Already fifteen clubs in St. Paul have formed leagues for friendly games of basketball, swimming, and all the other sports that boys enjoy. Murray now has only a basketball league, but the club members have been clamoring for a chance to show their skill in other sports as well. The Murray club does not conHne itself to gallop- ing around basketball courts in shorts, however. They proved February 14 that as a social group they were second to none. Sponsoring the Valentine's Day dance, the boys proved themselves excellent hosts, and guests were sorry when the orchestra called it a night. The fact is proudly pointed out that the Hi-Y is not only a national organization, but international as well. '- Mr. Henry Soderberg, who spoke before an as- sembly here, declared that were it not for the Hi-Y and other like organizations, many soldiers cap- tured by the Nazis would have suffered greatly. The YMCA furnished amusements, food, clothing, and communication facilities. As their pledge states, they create, maintain, and extend, throughout the school and community, better standards of Christian living.

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omeflzing fo .Sing Loaf First row, left lo right: Gertrude VVickman, Marie Larson, Beverly Iohnson, Shirley Bjorndahl, lean Frenning, Ioan Zimmer, Robert Iohnson, Kenneth Corsaw, Ianice Christopherson, Ioyce Woodbury I Ruth Tyedt, Beverly Murphy, Enid Larson, Delores Anderson, Audrey Peter, Renee Johnson, Lorraine Addington, Alice Perrin, Ruth Haglund, Lois Larson O Helen Iansen, William Murray, Tom Hooper, Marilyn Pilgren, Paul Mielke, Richard Olsen, Charles Michaelson, Herbert Moon, Geraldine Markley, Astrid Haugan O lean Smith, Leroy Gardner, Donald Pickering, Lee Barton, Richard Larson, Raymond Gausman, Robert Horswell, Iohn Pearson, Douglas Harding, Nancy Goebel. Although it is doubtful whether 'Amusic has charms to sooth the savage beast,', there is no doubt that the Murray choir has a miraculous Way of soothing troubled minds. Underclassmen forget to snap their bubblegum, the boys stop flexing their muscles and Winking at the girls, While the girls pass the acid test by maintaining complete silence. In October the choir sang with the all-state high school chorus for the annual meeting of the Minnesota Education Association. Various members of the choir again proved their merit by performing for the Athletic Club Banquet, the Guttersen School P.T.A., the American Legion Auxiliary, the St. Anthony Park Legion Post No. 8, and collabor- ated with the Murray band in the annual spring band concert. In addition, individuals and smaller ensembles from the choir presented other programs for various community activities and school assemblies. It is superior performance that keeps the Murray choir in constant demand, not only here, but in other parts of the city. Turning its talents toward radio, the Murray choir was featured February fourth, on the radio program, Salute to the Schoolsf, Ioining in a community project, the choir appeared with the St. Anthony Park Ameri- can Legion Band on February twenty-first and for senior night at the P.T.A. Under the capable direction of Helen McGeever, the Murray choir produced the Gil- bert and Sullivan comic opera, '4The Mikado, with full orchestral accompaniment. The Mikadof' with a Iapanese background and oriental atmosphere, has very little dialogue and gave the choir ample opportunity to display their vocal talents. Now commencement is not far away and school life would not be complete for seniors if the choir did not participate at this time. At present choristers are busily engaged in preparing for their last appearances of the year, baccalaureate services, and commencement. Page Twenty four