Baptist Missionary Training School - Beacon Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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.+-- THE BEAc:oN il- GLEE CLUB This Golden Anniversary year has proved to be one of the biggest and best for the B. M. T. S. Glee Club. From the forty-two members, ofiicers were elected as follows: MYRTLE RAWSON President FLORA Jo SMITH . . Secretary FLORENCE TINDALL 1 Chorisms EDNA SUTTON 5 . FAITH WARBURTON . Accompanist BESSIE GILLIES . . . Student Director The first appearance of the Glee Club was a very creditable performance of Scott's The Voice in the Wilderness at the Annual Mission Union Day program. Just before the Christmas holidays, the girls went to the home of Mrs. R. R. Donnelley to sing carols for her. As usual, the club has had a part on various school programs, perhaps the most outstanding one being Founders' Day. A trip through Michigan was planned for Spring vacation, but had to be abandoned because of a heavy snowstorm: however, the Club appeared in various churches in Chicago as well as at the District Meeting at Elgin during the month of April. The Glee Club is anticipating joyous participation in Commencement activities. First Sopranos: Mauguerette Allen, West Virginia: Sigrid Anderson, Pennsylvania: Kathryn Beadle. Wisconsin: Lillian Billings. New York: Virginia Cotchefer, New York: Margaret Cuddeback. Oregon: Marcia Cudworth, Kansas: Nancy Espy, Iowa: Bessie Gillies, Massachusetts: Marian Gossman. Indiana: Iva Gurlcy. Colorado: Gertrude Hollingworth. Ohio: Frances Stone, Colorado: Merle Stone. Nebraska: Edna Sutton. Kansas: Eva Mae Wong Gem, Nebraska. Second Sopranos: Helen Akin, California: Irene Amundrud, North Dakota: Adele Chism, Ohio: Raffaela Del Pozzo, Rhode Island: Elmora Jones, Indiana: Daesie Lawyow. Washington: gloria Mlekush. Pennsylvania: Myrtle Rawson, Illinois: Florence Tindall, Iowa: Ruth White. il 0. Altos: Elizabeth Abele. Illinois: Elsie Anderson, Iowa: Esther Bush, Arizona: Rocelia Christenson, Wisconsin: Anna Holland. Iowa: Kathryn Kappes, Iowa: Doris Lea. North Dakota: Jean McKenzie, North Dakota: Enid Myers. Nebraska: Julia Snyder. Wisconsin: Pearl Vilhauer. Wisconsin: Mercie Wickersham. Wisconsin: Faith Warburton, California. 37

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-i--- THE BEACON meaning to us. Sometimes she plays old favorites on the piano, giving the students the opportunity to guess the names and composers. Each Senior has the privilege of enjoying a Friday afternoon concert of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a gift ofthe Grey Fund. Every other Thursday evening about eight o'clock will see a group of B. M. T. S. students winding its way to the top balcony in Orchestra Hall to hear the same Orchestra in a popular concert. Many music lovers also take advantage of the opportunity to see and hear productions of the World famous Civic Opera Company as well as concerts by famous artists. The students not only have the opportunity to enjoy the best there is in music but aid in taking it to others. Almost everywhere a girl goes for her field work she is asked to play the piano for the services or to lead in the sing- ing. Two of our constituency who have been most helpful to us this year in a musical way are Miss Utecht with her violin and Mercie Wickersham with her cornet. Some of our students play unusual instruments --Zora Mlekush, the zither and Marcia Cudworth, the saw. The Training School sextette is always in great demand and responds most generously. To aid in appreciation of good music and to help others to enjoy it is the aim of this department for It is a blessing to have music in one's life, but it is even a greater privilege to be able to bring music into the lives of others. f Y 1 MELODY All things are wrought of melody, Unheard, yet full of speaking spellsg Within the rock, Within the tree, A soul of music dwells. To harmony all growth is set Each seed is but a music note. From which each plant, each violet Evolves its purple note. Compact of melody, the rose Woos the soft wind, with strain on strain Of crimson: and the lily blows Its white stars to the rain. The trees are paens, and the grass One long green fugue beneath the sun: Song is his life, and all shall pass, Shall cease when song is done. - Madison Cawein 36

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-l-- THE BEAcoN -M- ALUMNAE 1 Y 1 B. M. T. S. is rich in its Alumnae. It is said that the sun never sets upon its graduates. We are especially reminded this Golden Anniversary year of the Alumnae and theirinterest in the Training School, because, through their generous gift, the Morris Memorial Chapel has been remodeled in order that we may have a beautiful place in which to worship. What a sacrifice this has been to the Alumnae and yet what a proof of their love and loyalty to their Alma Mater. We, in the school, have felt the strength from the prayers of the Alumnae this year. Our school has grown in numbers. We have had eighty-four stu- dents in the school this year and it seems as if the goal of one hundred for 1931 might be reached. Some of the Alumnae have expressed their regard for the school now and in the days when they were students here. We join our own gratitude with their appreciation of our Alma Mater in the following letters: So far as I know, l am one of two members left of that first class to tell of the good we received. The first building was a rented one and the good women sent any pieces of furniture they could spare. Some sent folding canvas cotsp others a pillow, sheets and quilts, etc. Some students slept on a mattress on the floor. All went to the one bathroom to wash and without a looking glass. We looked in each other's eyes and laughed at failure to comb and fix right without help. Lack- ing chairs we could sit on box or board at table. Miss Burdette, who followed Mrs. Swift as Corresponding Secretary of the Board, brought furniture for her room and loaned one chair for the class room teacher. She also insisted that her bed was wide and she 'only needed a little space,' so she could take two students into her bed, and for a short time the three smallest persons used that bed. However, more furniture was being sent in almost daily, and while hardly two pieces in a room were related, they were thankfully used, and we were a happy family. I have been truly loving Mrs. Donnelley all these years. God gave great women to that work of starting things and they are being followed by good women. God bless all the efforts to advance B. M. T. S. and our W. A. B. H. M. Society, all dear to JENNIE L. PECK -1881 'iff I shall always have a warm place in my heart for the Training School and in memory of the many friendships formed, and happy days spent there, I have endowed a room in the school which bears my name. My recollection is that the first class numbered seventeen returned mis- sionaries, who came from near and far. Their fields included work among Swedes, Germans, Indians, and the coloredpeople of the South. The school was conducted in a three-story dwelling house at 2338 Michigan Avenue with 38