Baldwin High School - Piper Yearbook (Birmingham, MI)

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Ranking high on the list of Baldwin's or gan- izations is the school's a capella choi Th' r. IS year the choir has not only grown in popularity but also in number, Two full choirs had to be formed to tak e care of all the students who wished to join. V .. . ersatrlity is the keynote of the choir. Able to sing anything from the Cherubic H ymn to Surrey with the Fringe on Top, the group has performed 'many times for civic affairs and given its an l ' nua spring concert. Besides playing a big part in the school's variety show, the choir participated with Birm- ingham church choirs in the Messiah by Handel at Christmas time, and also attended the music festival at Ann Arbor this spring. The choir has furnished music for many school assemblies. Soloists for different per- formances have been Gwen Chapman, Ted Mansfield, Ioan Pasher Bill S h , c errnerhorn, Harry Suttle, Clara Gordon, and Bob Erwin The guidin l' h g lg t behind the whole group is patient, capable Victor Ulrich, who has not only been director for the choir but also Mother Confessor for many a discord Mary Iane Stephans and Elaine S 'th h mr ave been the accompanists and merit many thanks- Members are I k ac Appell, Clay Cogswell. Barbara Black, Merrily Bunyan, Ioanne Chapel. jim .Air Sta!! Z? Gwen ,Chapman, Logie Clark, Gene Dalton. Eleanor Ellis, Iohn Dalton, Sally Fortier, Kath- erine Dalton, Lillian Dolin, Robert Erwin, Marilyn Finnigan, Elaine Griffin, Nancy Han- son, Nancy Heacock, Cynthia Heideman, Iudith Hester, Virginia Hood, Dick Ieffers, Iean Kelly, Ioan Kowenski, Mary Anne Kraft, Maxine Le Roux, Claire MacGregor, Ted Mansfield, Vir- ginia Marson, Ann Miller, Doris Minks, Iunann Partridge, Gregory Peck, Martha Penfield, Donna Polczynski, Ioan Pasher, Annette Risch, Bill Schermerhorn, Gladean Schlaack, Anne Spiegel, Carolee Sproull, Viva Iean Steger, lim Tuggey How d W , ar eldon, Tom Dukes, and Mary Ann Wilkenson. Charles Crandell, Don Garfield, Clara Gor- don, Francis Hayes, Vincent Hayes, Iim Holden, Velma Keogh, Elizabeth LaBel1e, Douglas Lay- man, Kathleen Mitchell, Frank Mulholland, lack Munger, Pat Parkin, Pat Quinn, Nancy Richter, Elizabeth Schadt, Kathleen Scheifele, Iirn Sackett, and Harry Suttle. -DONNA POLCZYNSKI. Wrawwwfnyoww 8

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The question, What will we have for assembly next week? has finally been taken care of. The full responsibility for digging up assemblies has for some time rested on the shoulders of Miss Dorothy Allen, Miss Emily Walker, Miss Barbara Anderson and Miss Alice Ftoulet. But now it has been shifted, partly, at least, to the enthusiastic Assembly Club. The roup organized in Ianuary with 9 the election of officers by the homeroom representatives. At one of the first meetings each member volunteered to be chairman of one assembly, providing a program for the students at least once a week. The chairman is given full responsibility for obtaining and planning the program. Student association cards sold to stu- dents early last fall provide the treasury for the organization. This money is used to obtain outstanding speakers and motion pictures. The club meets at least once a month to get reports from assembly chairmen for that month and to make needed changes. Sometimes it is necessary to meet more than once a month to give the chairmen help and suggestions on their programs. -MARGARET MacDONALD. Top-The officers of Baldwin's brand-new as- sembly club are seen above making plans for bigger and better assemblies. They are Pete Good, Charlotte Mill, and Marilyn Harris. Middle-Something new in war bond rallies was the auction assembly. In the picture are buyer Don Buell, teller Chick Coley, and auc- tioneer Iohn Foley. BottomiOne of the scenes from the clever Valentine assembly features Ioy Stark and lim Lamb posing as Harry Suttle sings Seeing Nellie Home. Harriet Thompson was the de- signer of the beautiful stage setting.

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jifdcl wifk Wudic And the band played on. Handicapped by decreased numbers this year, the band worked harder to produce a musical organization that would have the recognition, State, district, and locally, that has been accorded the Baldwin band in the past. The band entered the South- eastern Michigan band and orchestra festival held at Highland Park and there acquitted itself well. Co-operating in many school events this year, the band has attended all home football games, preparing a special routine for each game, and most of the home basketball games. It was the band that led the students in march formation to Pierce School on Field Day and to the theater for the traditional pep meeting before the Royal Oak game. The climax of the season, something every band member looked forward to, was the an- nual spring concert. Many hours were spent in preparation, recordings were made, and special rehearsals conducted before and after school. X Music featured at the concert was Deep Purple, Peter DeRoseg Minerva, N. DeRubertisg Looking Upward, Iohn Phillip Sousa: and First Norwegian Rhapsody, F. Melius Christiansen. The band owes its thanks for a successful- year to Arnold W. Berndt, a conductor who gives of his time and patience unselfishly and who insists on correct methods of rehearsing. The officers of the band are Bob Marsh, presi- dent, Byron Wyatt, vice president: Nancy Pierce, secretary: Burton Bronson. treasurer: and Ieanne Blinn, librarian. Bill Sproull is drum major. Other members of the band are Richard Adams, David Ballentine. Lois Bloyer, Russell Blaisus, Russell Davies, Ralph Dunbar, Eunice Engel, lack Filkins, Don Garfield, Martha Gruber. Frances Hayes, Nancy Heacock, Marjorie Hen- shaw, Gerald Hughes, Herbert Herzberg. Harris Iackson, Kate Kemp, Marilyn Kemp. Marilyn Kreger, Phil Martz, Charles Murray, Wanda Olin, Ralph Peabody, Hugh Quinn, Dick Rob- ertson, Clark Rogers, Robert Shaffner, Bruce Smiley, Bill Smith, Carolee Sproull, Ed Van Develder, Clara White, Bob Wolf, Clifford Young, Norman Schwallie, and Medford Pitt- IDCII1. -EUNICE ENGEL. .AJhA:...Q