Bemus Point High School - Pointer Yearbook (Bemus Point, NY)

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CU CERT AN The concert band participates in concerts and the Music Festival at Fredoniag it supplies music for basketball games and other activities. Three years ago the band acquired uniforms. It is under the direction of Mr. Harvey and has two officers, Harold Peterson, concert-master, and Elbert Hazzard, librarian. The band provides recreation and training for its members. In the future it hopes to reach a membership of fifty, thus necessitating more instruments. Those most needed are a bassoon, bass clarinet, and kettle drums. Many seniors are leaving the band this year opening places for newcomers. TRUMPETS Harold Peterson COUCEFT-ITIESICI' Charles Kohn Allene Dake john Skillman Glenwood Stowell Dora Parker Phillip Rexford BARITONES Herbert Crandall Robert Brooks MEMBERS OF THE BAND CLARINETS Leah Dolan Ray Robison Herman johnson jeannette Shepardson Lois Shepardson May Trusler Shirley Barrett Martha johnson Edward Bue Richard Bush OBOE Marilyn Thompson FLUTES Norma Kelderhouse Ruth Baldwin Phyllis Lawson HORNS Mildred Thompson Richard Winchester Roger Phillips Kenneth Harvey SAXAPHONES Donald Locker Roger Miller Merrill Harvey CHURU D. L. TRoMBoNEs Elbert Hazzard Helen Carlson BASS VIOL Viola Shepardson T UBAS Wallace Crandall Donald Stowell DRUMS Richard Lamphear Glenn Helgren, jr. Terrence johnson CHORUS PERSONNEL The chorus provides training and instructive recreation for all students interested in singing. Since the organization of the chorus in 1931 by Mr. Harvey, its member- ship has increased to the number of seventy-two. At least one public appearance in the form of a concert is made every year, usually in collaboration with the band and orchestra. Each spring it competes in the Music Festival at Fredonia and its rating is improving steadily. The chorus prepares an operetta bienniallyg in April, 1939, Tulip Time was presented. Its cast consisted of Viola Shepardson, jewel Slater, Betty Shanon, Edmond Lawrence, George jones, Harold Peterson, and Reginald Lawrence. Operettas of the past were: t'The Tea House of Sing Lo , Sunbonnet Sue , In Old Vienna , and Purple Towers . In December l938, Viola Shepardson and Edmond Lawrence of the chorus participated in the New York State All-High School Chorus at Ithaca, New York. In the All-High Chorus at Fredonia this spring, Marian Gage, Marjorie Miller, Harold Peterson, Reginald Lawrence, Edwin Swanson, and Merrill Harvey were the members representing the Bemus Point choral group. Some had the opportunity to see the opera Tsar Saltan given in jamestown in March. Bringing each year to a close comes the music picnic and roller skating party at Midway Park. M. R. M. Page 25 0 FIRST SOPRANOS Ruth Brooks Kathryn Cederquist jean Christenson Gladys Foster Marian Gage Norma Hall Violet Hall Marjean I-lallberg Pascal Luciano Mary Marcauci Ella Moon jewel Slater Viola Tyler Marian Williamson SECOND SOPRANOS Lois Brewer Betty Cannon Beulah Ingerson Phyllis Lawson jeannette Nelson Beatrice Olson Marilyn Schow Delia Slater Irene Stowell Lois Waid FIRST ALTOS Cordelia Baldwin Mary jane Carlson Ceneva Crandall Elsie Gordon Virginia Harvey Martha johnson Betty Shanon Bessie Skinner Betty Wilkinson SECOND ALTOS Virginia Carlson Allene Dake Ethelyn Kesby Emily Lawrence Agnes Penhollow Viola Shepardson janice Thompson Mildred Thompson Marjorie Miller Helen Carlson FIRST TENORS Herman johnson Roger Lindell David Maydwell Roger Miller Carl Peterson Ray Robison Roger Ward SECOND TENORS Herbert Crandall Norma Kelderhouse, accompanist Charles Hallberg Charles Kohn john Skillman Howard Strickland Richard Winchester FIRST BASSES Ray Brown james Dowd Gifford Hayward Reginald Lawrence Roger Lindell Dudley Mecusker Charles Nelson SECOND BASSES Wallace Crandall Paul Gustafson Merrill Harvey Elbert Hazzard Harold Peterson Edwin Swanson