University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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SOPHOMORE EVENING You ' re so sweet tonight. .TRANKIE MASTERS and his orchestra provided the music as some 550 formally-attired couples packed the Palais Royale Ballroom in South Bend for the annual Sophomore Cotillion. The theme for this year ' s dance was An Evening In Paris. The ballroom was transformed into a beautiful Parisian park scene, where the second year men and their dates danced into the early hours of morning. Besides the evening activities, the sophomores treated their belles to a football game, a la Notre Dame. What a fascinating hand you have. Catch the girl on the right, that ' s the spirit oj the whole dance . . . really dreamy. This group looks like they are really living, but . . .

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Dance Band. J.HK GENTLEMAN RESPONSIBLE for SO much of the fine dance music heard at Notre Dame is a twenty-one year old junior named Gene Hull. A music major from Bridgeport, Connecticut, he has led the University Dance Orchestra since he came to the campus in 1948. Gene had his first hand at Notre Dame going strong after two short weeks, and the music has been coming forth since then . . . hetter with each date. Beside the Student Council Saturday night dances and other campus functions, Gene and the Lettermen play for various South Bend area activities, and have traveled to Ohio and Illinois to play for dances there. The present hand consists of fourteen pieces, plus Gene and a vocalist. While the orchestra has no really distinctive style, Gene says We try to play strictly daiiceable music . . . music that we know the students enjoy. And, once in a while, we throw in a modern arrangement for a change of pace. This formula has heen very successful for Gene in the past, and undoubtedly will continue to be so in the future. Gene Hull, maestro. Personnel of the hand includes: Saxophones: Jerry Costello, Jack Ross, Carl Kohls, Jack Bradshaw and Jim Hawes. Trumpets: John Skudris, Art Goldkamp and Rol Kohlbeck. Trombones: Herb Dir, Dave O ' Leary and Hank Keating. Bass: Ed Vlaun. Drums: Jack Totty. Piano: Lou Martinello. Joe Desautels is the vocalist, and arrangements are done by Jerry Costello. Gene s regular Saturday night date.

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COTILLION IN PA R IS ' NO TViof adoring look . . . please don ' t slop. The grand entrance . . . up the staircase and on to the ballroom! The happy couples watched the Irish roll over the Panthers of the University of Pittsburgh. Before the gay weekend was over, the cotillion goers took in another dance, this one an informal Student Council Victory Dance in the Palais Royale Ballroom. Sunday morning dawned early as the Arthur Murray ' s and their girls attended High Mass in the Sacred Heart Church. Good-byes and hasty farewells marked the parting of feminine guests, and weary sophomores re- turned to the campus, badly in need of a long rest. The maestro, Frankie Masters, chats with pleased Prom-goers. . . . who died over here.