Bement High School - BIM Yearbook (Bement, IL)

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MUSIC 3SE Music is one of the outstanding- activities of our high school. There is a great deal of interest among the student body in both chorus and band. Appreciation and knowledge of music foster culture and refinement, desirable qualities for citizenship. Music is known as the “universal language” and can and should be a part of all well-rounded person’s lives. PLAQUES If you should walk into the office you would see the evidence of the accomplishments of the band and chorus in the past three years. On the wall are five attractively engraved plaques which they have earned in contests. CONTEST The band this year placed second in the District Contest held at Mattoon. A vocal octet also placed first in the District Contest. The members of the octet are the following: Helen Hill, Barbara Camp, Ruth Lamb, Edna Raglan, Warren McPherson, Richard Fleming, Burton Tatman, and William Fleming. Soloists that placed in first division were Eugene Wallace, alto saxophone; Peggy Moery, French horn; Warren McPherson, flute. Ann Lefever, alto saxophone; Jane Postlewait, bass clarinet, and Helen Hill, oboe, placed in second division at District. Two clarinet quartets entered the contest this year. One in which Barbara Camp, Ruth Lamb. Betty Turney, and Betty Landis played, placed in second division. The other, in which Shirley Fisher, Lois Smith, Vena Loomis, and Jean Bogue played, placed in third division. Twenty-five