Rocky Mountain College - Yellowstone / Poly Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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THE POLY ing having been closed at the outbreak of the War. Miss Bailey has also been head of the music department of the Anglo-Continental College, Folkstone, England. She holds a diploma from the Royal Academy of Music, London, England. Miss Bailey began her teaching career in America as Special Piano Instructor for the Summer Session of the Kansas State Normal School, Emporia, 1919, and took up her Work in the Conservatory of Christian College, Columbia, Mo., September, 1916. In the early part of the current year, Miss Bailey, with other mem- bers of the musical faculty, played in Hardin. Her interpretation of the opening numbers was masterful and artistic. Her work throughout shows individuality, versatility and that most desirable quality in a player-temperament. Her Work at the Polytechnic has been highly successful and she has a charming personality, which is a most valuable asset to a teacher of music. . VOICE DEPARTMENT The Voice Department, under the direction of Iva Jane Thomas, has made a marked progress this year. Exceptional talent has been discovered in this field of music at the Polytechnic and many of the students have taken part in the various recitals at the school, as well as at the concerts held in Billings. The male quartette, which was first heard at the Annual Candle- Light Banquet, on January 31st, gives promise of becoming one of the permanent organizations of the school. The members of this quartette are: John Deiebach, Edmund Nichols, Vale Leitner and Ivyl Burks. MALE QUARTETTE

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THE POLY HAROLD A. LORING e ' Mr. Loring has received his train- ing from eminent teachers, including Carl Foeten of Boston and the Virgils of New York. He has concertized in nearly every state in the country, has conducted the Victor Herbert Sym- phony Orchestra of New York, and has delivered series of lecture-recitals in many states. Mr. Loring has spent considerable time in visiting various Indian reservations, making records of the native old-time Indian music. He has been organist and choir director in several large churches and has been director of music at Shorter College in Georgia and at Olivet College in Michigan. He is a member of the Musicians' Club of New York and Phi Alpha Pi fraternity. The Polytechnic has been especially fortunate in securing the serv- ices of Mr. Loring as Dean of Music this year, for he has done much to forward the progress of the Losekamp Conservatory and has made the Polytechnic favorably known in the musical world. In establishing a studio in Billings and in Hardin he has woven a tie of common interest which will serve to draw these communities into closer touch with the Polytechnic in every way. This work Mr. Thompson has been success- fully accomplishing for several years by his Billings and other out-of- town classes, this year adding the enthusiastic Boy Scout Band at Laurel. MISS MARCIA von WILHEMJ BAILEY, LR. A.M. Pianiste and Instructor. Pupil of Ernest Fowles, London, England, pupil of Wilhem Backhaus, Sondershausen Conservatory, Ger- many, pupil of Margarette Eussert, Berlin, Germany, pupil of Cuthbert Whitemore, A.R.A.M., Royal Academy of Music, London. Teacher of Piano, Pensionat Henzschel, Eisenbach, Ger- many, Head of Piano Department, Pension Les Fauvettes, Dieppe, France. Special Piano Instructor Kansas State Normal School, Emporia, Summer Ses- sion, 1916. Miss lVIarcia Bailey is one of the artists whom the fortunes of war have brought to this country, the school in which she was teaching hav-

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THE POLY MISS IVA JANE THOMAS Miss Thomas is an honor grad- uate of The New England Conserv- atory of Music in Boston, and has taught in that institution and priv- ately. She is the possessor of a lyric soprano voice of unusual range and beauty and became connected with the Polytechnic last September with highest recommendations from emi- nent teachers and artists of Boston. Miss Thomas is a member of the Cecilia Choral Society and has had much experience in chorus work throughout the East. She has a charming simplicity of manner coupled with a very high degree of intelligence of interpreta- tion, which makes her singing a delight to her audience. She is a musician of broad knowledge and a young woman of delightful per- sonality. THE VIOLIN AND BAND DEPARTMENT TO THE VIOLIN O, Golden Minstrel of the melting heart, Thy voice doth image all Life's passions grand, And by the magic of musician's art, Unlocks Man's inmost soul at his command. The woodland echoes of thy forest home, Are crystallized in wondrous concord sweet, Captive, yet ever free, they widely roam In mightier harmonies their Lord to greet. For thou, whom Nature bore, hath Man revealed- A flame divine his incense to translate Thru vaulted Spirit's heights to earth dross sealed- And to exalt his race to holy state. Oh, if my bow these passions may inspire My throbbing melodies shall mount still higher. -A. H. D