Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music - Opus Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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1 Walter D. Hickman, Acting Head, Radio Dcpartvicnt THE RADIO DEPARTMENT Jordan ' s radio department has come of age. Its influences now are being felt in all branches of the armed forces as well as in war industries, in the school room and in many broadcasting stations. The demands of war Wave caused nearly the complete elimination of men from all radio classes but more women, from the ages of seventeen to seventy-two, are taking radio privately and in classes at Jordan than previously. Radio instruction has passed the fad and experimental stages at the Conservatory and has definitely become a major department comparable to those in the larger universities. On Saturday evening, May H, 1943, Jordan Music, the weekly thirty-minute broadcast of the Conservatory faculty members and students, will observe its one- hundredth consecutive weekly broadcast over Radio Station WIRE atop the Clay- pool Hotel. Jordan Music is now being presented at six o ' clock each Saturday eve- ning for thirty minutes over WIRE as a public service on the part of the station. It is estimated that Jordan Music is tuned in by approximately 7 5,000 homes each Saturday night. Walter D. Hickman, acting head of the radio department for the duration absence of Frederic G. Winter, prepares the script for Jordan Mvisic, acts as producer and commentator. This sounds like Orsen Wells but Hickman claims there is no similarity. Local radio stations are using regularly members of the radio classes. Marjorie Spencer is under contract with WIBC and is a leading member of the Saturday and Sunday Jamboree broadcasts at Tomlinson Hall over WIBC. Peggy Million also is broadcasting over WIBC and may soon go on tour under the auspices of a nationally known product. Shirl Evans, Jr., of the night radio classes, is now a full time member of the radio staff of WBOW, Terre Haute. Robert Lashbrook is in position to become major announcer at Station WAOV, Vincennes. Both men have made good in the full sense of the word.

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THE JORDAN CONSERVATORY STOCK MARKET REPORT Br your TALL STREET Rcporfcr. OFFICIALS: Dr. Fabien Sevitzky, President of the Board of Exchange. Renato Pacini, Vice-President. (All quotations subject to extreme fluctuations due to wartime conditions.) PRESENTING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA QUOTATIONS Violins .... off 2 5. Violas steady. ' Cellos .... off 2 5. Basses a bull in the market. Flutes stead} to sharp. Clarinets ... off cne (1) point (May be off other ways, too, but that ' s beside the point. Brasses .... Stock market crashes, and bottom falls out of Brasses! Tu-ba sure, a serious situation, indeed! Tympani . . . Stock Exchange trying to drum up trade. Members of the Exchange believe it may be necessary to take drastic measures to keep the market from going wild. It was suggested that we water the stock by buying short, several issues of Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra stock. This may be a bum steer, as we hate to compromise on quality! What we really need is a Russian Bear on the market! Conservatory issues were sky-rocketed at the beginning of the year, by a large block of stock which went October 5, to the National United War Fund Drive. Unusual qualities were discovered in this particular block, consisting of Lawrence Tibbet, (pure gravy) and hitherto undiscovered abilities of stock holders to trans- pose; thus greatly enhancing value of said stock, and pleasing all officials of the Board, and members of the Exchange. One little lamb was shorn when buying unknown stock called, How to Play Banjo in Six Easy Lessons, or Three Hard Days. Stock was upset by Arcady Dn- benskyh Variatium on Stephen Foster Themes. Stock failed to pay off, and gambler was forced to take it on the lam(b) ; thus proving that ewe cannot Buck the Stock Market! Vice-President Renato Pacini presides every Monday night over a full board meeting, discussing such stocks as the latest additions to Symphonic Literature, reviewing old stocks and bonds, and deciding the likelihood of dividends in the form of a concert (or more, depending on whether or not we have a quorum on the board to make such enactments possible). All in all, it seems necessary to pool many of our resources (including board members), and to buy more war bonds (instead of selling our own stock) and to throw in all we can afford, to save the market during this crisis; thus to insure the post-war solvency of this organization and all like organizations and exchanges. — Mercedes Banks Russow.

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Last November Frederic Winter received a leave of absence for the duration to enter the RCA plant in IndianapoUs. Fred Winter, because of his tremendous energy, training and education, has successfully established himself on the home front. WHERE THEY ARE NOW Lieut, (jg) Morris Hendricks with the Pacific Fleet. Pvt. John Robbins some place with our fighting forces in the Pacific. Sgt. Ralph Martz in the Army Air Corps. William Landrum in training in the Enlisted Reserve Corps of the Army Signal Corps. Golden A. Smith attending the Navy School of Music near Washing- ton, D. C. Harold Modlin as production manager at WLBC, Muncie. Ward Glenn with a Kokomo radio station. Pvt. James Winkel at Camp Swift, Texas. Lieut. William Lett, flying bombardier in the South Pacific. Lieut. Carl Dawson with the Army Motor Transport Service. Since Jim Winkel joined the Army, Mary Esther Guidone is acting as chief engineer with Peggy Million as assistant. Jordan ' s radio department is meeting all demands of the war effort both on the active war front and the home front.