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

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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.-

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