Pottsville High School - Hi S Potts Yearbook (Pottsville, PA)

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V ' ' T ' T 'W 'TT' ' 'wmmv' 5' W 5 Fw ' 'W F999 A CAPPELLA CHOIR The Associated Choirs By PETER J. PUGH, from data collected by the I-listory Committee In 1928, Mr. Earl W. Haviland was engaged to conduct the musical organizations at Pottsville High. That the selection was a wise one is borne out by the great accomplishments of these musical groups during the past 25 years. During his first year, Mr. Haviland organized the Girls' Choral Club, Boys' Glee Club. and the Band. In 1929, Mr. Marburger, Vocational teacher in the high school, became the band leader, giving more time to Mr. Haviland for his other groups. Mr, Haviland immediately organized the A Cappella Choir and assumed leadership of the Symphony Orchestra, an organization he continued to conduct until 1935. when Mr. Leo F. Minnichbach, the band leader, became its conductor. This gave Mr. Haviland additional time to devote to his choral groups, so there appeared the Choir Ensemble, the Voice Choir, the Freshman Choral Club and the Crimson Singers, By the end of 1935, 400 students of Pottsville High were members of the various musical groups. He also organized choral groups in the grade schools and soon had 300 of these boys and girls in his Iunior Choirs. 1932-Pottsville High was signally honored in having eleven students selected for the National High School Chorus and Orchestra at Cleveland, Ohio. 1933-Henry Hadley's beautiful and demanding operetta, The Fire Prince, was produced by 125 members of the Glee and Choral Clubs and Orchestra. 1935-A mass chorus of 220 voices sang for the State Education Association in the High School Auditorium. 1936-Musical clubs under the direction of Mr. Haviland and Mr. Minnichbach completed, most successfully, their eighth year of activity. High points of the year were the Fifth Biennial Christmas Concert, Eighth Annual Spring Musical Festival, and Pennsylvania Forensic and Music League State Final Contests. 1938-Six hundred voices in the combined choirs, highest in the schools history. 1941-The A Cappella Choir and Choir Ensemble participated in the production of the musical review, On Our Way, which was presented in celebration of National Education Week from Nov- ember llth to 14th. lt was the largest production of its kind ever given in Pottsville, with the choirs playing a large part in its successful outcome. 1942-Fourteenth Annual Music Festival, held in the Auditorium, in celebration of National Music Week, was dedicated to the National theme, American Unity Through Music. -26.-

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CHORAL ENSEMBLE 1944-During the intervening years, the choirs achieved an outstanding reputation in the field of choral music by winning seven State Championships participation in National Chorus Festivals, by out- of-town concerts and by radio broadcasts. Among the cities visited were Chicago, New York, Cleve- land, Philadelphia, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Ithaca, Harrisburg, Sunbury, Iohnstown, Altoona, and Oil City. 1945-Miss Hannah Chadwick, instructor of Physical Education for Girls, composed and directed the Folk Dances used in the Music Festival. 1946-On Tuesday, February 12, 1946, Mr. Lansing Hatfield, noted opera singer, sang the solo role of the famous A'Ballad for Americans accompanied by the A Cappella Choir and Choir Ensemble. The concert, presented to a sold-out auditorium, was sponsored by the Kiwanis Club for the benefit of under- privileged children. 1948-The A Cappella Choir of Lebanon High School appeared as a guest chorus and joined with the Choral Ensemble and Crimson Singers in the grand finale. The State Evaluation Committee that visited the high school this year added to the praises, previously heaped upon the Choirs over the years, by rating the Choral Music Department of Pottsville High School A'Extra Superior. 1949-Outstanding in the musical and educational annals of the school was the All-State High School Chorus Festival, held in the P. H. S, Auditorium, with Dr. Harry R. Wilson of Columbia University as Guest Conductor. 1950 - One of the main features was the presentation of Fred Waring's modern arrangement of Tschaikowsky's Nut Cracker Suite, which was most ably conducted by Mr. Chester A. Stineman, President of the P. M. E. A. 1951-Participated in the Eastern Shore Choral Festival at Delmar, Delaware, 1953-Mr. Earl W. Haviland's Twenty-fifth Annual and Farewell Concert. After 25 years of outstanding leadership, Mr. Haviland has retired to pursue a life of leisure and to more fully enjoy his hobby, fishing. He has purchased a fishing boat and he and Mrs. Haviland hope to spend the remaining years of their lives enjoying the excellent fishing in southern Florida, This farewell concert will be long remembered by those fortunate enough to be present in the jam- packed High School Auditorium, These semi-annual concerts held by the Choral groups each Christ- mas season and each Spring in the month of May, have been enjoyed by the music lovers of Pottsville for the past twenty-five years. This spring of 1953 the members of the various Choral groups, sensing this was the Centennial Con- cert and Mr, Haviland's last time as conductor, seemed to put extra effort in their rendition of a very -28.-