Beloit High School - Trojan Yearbook (Beloit, KS)

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$ m: m usic (Department BAND There were 54 players and six twirlers enrolled in marching band. This group performed at all the home football games; they journeyed to Topeka where they played for the state fair. Five students joined the marching band players to form the concert band. They participated in the annual Spring Festival held at Concordia. Added features to the year’s program were the concerts given by the combined bands of Concordia and Beloit in each community. Certain members were selected from the group to comprise the pep band, who helped to stir up a little enthusiasm at the basketball games. Each group is to be commended for their good work during the year. 28

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The Y-Teen Club, which is a branch of the Young Women’s Christian Association, has been exceedingly busy during the year of ’47 and ’48. Miss Carol Francis and Miss Mary Hughes, sponsors of the Club, were very patient and they were alway willing to give guidance whenever it was needed. One of the main highlights of the year was the Mother-Daughter Banquet which was held April 7. Some of the other activities were joints meetings with the YWCA and Blue Triangle, the Heart-Sister Week, Valentine Party and picnics. June Porter, Nadine Treaster and Miss Francis attended the Hi-Y, Y-Teen National Conference which was held in Grinnell, Iowa, in the summer of ’47. Several of the other members of the club attended camps held at Camp Sudan and twenty-three Y-Teen girls, two Blue Triangle girls, and four YMCA women went to the winter conference held at Alton, Kansas. One way the Y-Teen has of making money is helping run the concession stands at football and basketball games. Nadine Treaster was chosen as president, Stella Carrico, vice-president, Marianne Metcalf, treasurer, and Vera Jean McKee, secretary. These, the leaders of the club, with the help of the cabinet and co-chairman aided in a successful year for the Beloit Y-Teen Club. Cabinet Members: Rack Row: (left to right) Rosemary Jordan, Willo Loo Lovell, Neida Vonne Broadbent, Rose Ella Ratcliff, Peggy Spurgin, Johanna Johnson, Sylvia Boettcher. Middle Row: (left to right) Miss Hughes, Virginia Blauvelt, Kathleen Shamburg, June Porter, Marjorie Jordan, Theodora Phillips, Miss Francis. Front Row: (left to right) Bernice Hodler, Martha Joan White, Vera Jean McKee, Marianne Metcalf, Stella Carrico, Nadine Treaster, Barbara Street, Barbara Perkins. 27

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ORCHESTRA The twenty-seven piece orchestra has had a very successful year. They appeared at the Junior and Senior plays, playing preceding the play and between acts. On Palm Sunday they joined the chorus groups and gave Handel’s Easter Messiah. In April the Smith Center, Clay Center and the Beloit High School orchestras presented a massed concert to the public. This group appeared at the Spring Festival in Concordia during April. Also the orchestra furnished the music for Baccalaureate services and for the Commencement exercises. Mr. Eugene Tice has been the very capable instructor for all of the musical groups. As well as working with the band, orchestra, and chorus groups, he has organized many small ensembles which have appeared at several music contests. 29