Bisbee Egeland High School - Chiefs Yearbook (Bisbee, ND)

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VOCAL DEPARTMENT The vocal department had a successful 1947-48 school year culminating with high honors at the state music contest in Grand Forks. Every phase of the department was represented at the district contest in Devils Lake, which preceeded the state contest and picked contestents from this district for the state contest, but not all phases of our department had as favorable success. Those taking high honors, superior ratings, from our school were the boys' glee club, the girls' glee club, mixed chorus, and Marlene Schmidt, who competed against all class A, B, and C contestants in the alto voice division. ' Due to the size of our school, all large groups competed in class C. All schools with less than 100 students enrolled in the high school were placed in class C. Our group had to enter the same division, Class C, in the state as well as in the district contest. The mixed chorus received the highest rating given mixed chorus in our class at the state contest--a superior rating. The boys' glee club was not an undisputed winner but it did tie for first place. Of these honors our students, our school, and our com- munity can be justly proud. Our vocal department was greatly enlarged this year by the addition of the seventh and eighth graders. This was made possible through a ruling passed at a music masters meeting held in the fall of 1948 at Devils Lake. It was decided that talent from lower grades could be used in vocal work as well as it had been used in instrumental work previously. This is definitely to our advantage for with a larger number of good voices better tone can be achieved. We now have fifty seven voices in our mixed chorus, twenty nine voices in our male chorus, and twenty eight in our ladies chorus. The choral effects which can be accomplished with this size group make the music much more thrilling for the singers as well as for the listeners. The vocal departments in the high school and the grades presented their second annual Christmas concert this year. All students in the Bisbee School took part in the program. White vestments were worn to dress up the group. The numbers which were presented all centered around the theme of Christmas. Highlight of the concert was the massed choir singing the old familiar carols. 155 students took part in the -' community's highlight of the Christmas season. E The vocal groups, as well as solo students, are now working on their numbers for the county music festival which will be held in Cando on the 8th day of April. We . will use the same numbers at the county festival as we will use at the district contest. The Bisbee community can be proud of their school's music department. All . divisions of the department have made great progress. With the cooperation of all, this' school will again have a banner year in music. Z3

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.......4..... N, 1 ., THE BAND The Bisbee Band, under the direction of Mr. Melsted, now consists of 41 members. The new members include Dorothy Oakland, Marilyn Christofferson, Lloyd Berg, and Raymond Larson. Those not appearing in the Band picture are: Roger Warner, Alice Keller, and Charlotte Keller. ,. During the winter and summer months the Band has been very active. It has made several home and out of town appearances. On Saturday nights the Band marched through the streets, and stopped at different sections of the town and played. Our first out of town concert was held at Edinburg where both the band and chorus took part. Here in Bisbee we supplied music for the Farmers Union, International Day, and Memorial Day. On july Z, the Band marched through the streets of Cando stopping at the intersections and playing a few numbers, we then proceeded to the fair grounds where we entertained the people there. On july 5, the Band went to Egeland to entertain the people at the big Egeland Day that was held there. The Band was given a trip to Langdon by the business men of Bisbee on july 31. We marched through the streets stopping to play several times. After having lunch we re- turned home During the colder months the band supplied music for the home basketball games, and will also provide music for the home basketball tournaments. Future plans of the Band includes: a concert presented here in Bisbee, and playing at the district and county music festivals. Q Again this year the Seniors in the band were awarded gold band sweaters. The sweaters had a green letter B on them and three green bars on the one sleeve. The beginners band consists of the following students: Vivian Gerrard, Richard Lien, Dorothy Oakland, Marilyn Christofferson, Keith Lien, Lloyd Berg, Raymond Larson, Theone Fosberg, Bruce Scobba, Ronald Ellingson, Merfdith Stanton, Wilma Johanson, Bobby Gault, Kermit Edwards, Harry Abercrombie, Harvey Held, Bartley Held, and Margaret Berg. Delores Gerrard has been the student instructor for the reed section and Violet Reid has been the student instructor for the brass section. ZZ l 1

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FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA ROW 1: Lauritz Berg, Andrew Gerrard, Ludvik Grande, Adviser, Walter Bierman, Curtis Larson, James Keller, Hillman Nelson, Arlyn Larson, David Bretheim, Rodney Halling. ROW 2: Duane. Markwardt, Williaxn Pickard, Lawrence Brannan, Bobby Keller, Darrel Krick, Donald Lien, Kenneth Pollestad, William Gores, Vernon Koester, Hiram Maler, Ronald Wibe, Richard Klier, Ollie Erickson, Charles Auka, Stuart Larson, James Bishop, Verlin Wibe. ROW 3: Jack Stanton, Allan Anderson, Lyle' Westemeier, Lester Fosberg, Ronald Scobba, Dick Benson, Donald Kolberg, Robert Loe, Harvey Held, Bartley Held, Jacky Neameyer, Donald Lee. F.F.A. OFFICERS Ludvik Grande, James Keller. Walter Bierman, Curtis Larson, Hillman Nelson, Arlyn Larson. 24