Bowdoin College - Bugle Yearbook (Brunswick, ME)

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Top Row, left to right: M. von HUENE, G. MOORE, L. PRATT, GROUT. DWIGHT, HAM, HAZEN, HAMILL, HEUSCH, F. FARRINGTON, R. HAMILTON, D. OSGOOD. Fifth Row, left to right: GRAHAM, C. von HUENE, BABCOCK, HETHERINGTON, SCULL, MacCORMICK, FAIRFIELD, CHURCH, HODGKINS, D. COLEMAN, GREENE, A. FARRINGTON, WALKER. 0 lineieen 0i ineieen Fourth Row, loft to right: I. F. WILSON, LANDER, D. KING, SCHOENEMAN, RAYMENT, NUNGESSER, RACE, WELCH, F. BARTLETT, HAYS, I. HOVEY. Third Row, left to right: E. HAY, M. MOORE. SOUTHERLAND, LYONS, CHALMERS. WRIGHT, CHAM- BERS. GROVE, RICE. F. DUNN. Second Row, loft to right: BLATCHFORD, VAN CRONKHITE, HARTLEY, SCHEFFY, HILL, McGORRILL, HAWLEY, G. DUNN, S. COOPER. Bottom Row, left to right: KWOUK, HAYWARD, PICKERING. PILLSBURY, TILLOTSON, MORRELL, REID, STEARNS, HOERLE.

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The Glee Club got off to a flying—and rushed— start this year, giving the lead-ofF concert of the Monsanto “Songs from New England Colleges” series on November 11—hardly a month after the first rehearsal. Later in the week, on November 16, the club gave another concert at Yarmouth. Having lost many old men the previous June, Professor Tillotson deserves all the credit for whipping a young club into concert shape in such a short time. The annual “Messiah” concerts were not given this year, largely because of a theoretical, and long deserved, sabbatical leave which “Tilly” spent on campus, in order to stay with the club. An old custom was reinstated this year with the presentation of two-year medals to those men who had been with the club for two years, and were starting their third year of singing. Fifteen men received medals. After the Yarmouth concert, the men had a chance to steady themselves with tri-weekly rehearsals for the second term, which started with three concerts in the state—at Saco, Sanford, and Augusta. By the first “Baby Tour” to Pembroke College and Fram- ingham State Teachers College in Framingham, the club had reached a level of performance not usually reached until later in the season, in spite of a larger repertoire than usual, and the substitution of the Mozart Requiem Mass for the Kodaly Tc Deum, which the club has sung for the last few years. The Campus Chest weekend on March 15 was the weekend of the campus concert. The club played host to the Bradford Junior College Glee Club, the concert taking place in the First Congregational Church. The two clubs sang the Mozart Requiem together, as well as several separate selections. The following weekend of March 22 saw the club off on another “Baby Tour,” to Lasell Junior College in Auburndale, Massachusetts, for a Friday night concert, and then to Mt. Holyoke College for a double concert—a secular concert on Saturday fea- turing the combined clubs singing a musical pre- sentation of Milton’s poem. Blessed Pair of Sirens. and a religious concert on Sunday, in which both clubs sang the Mozart Requiem. On April 6 (four days before the start of Spring vacation), the club started off on Spring Tour. The Glee Club didn’t get to New York City this year, in preparation for next year’s Town Hall concert, but there were concerts given in upper New York State in such places as St. Johnsbury, Skidmore College, Syracuse, Buffalo, Elmira, and Wells College. The club had a lot of fun paying for its Easter dinner by splitting up and singing in several church choirs, the members picking the church of their preference. The season came to an end hardly a month after the end of Spring vacation with the annual Bowdoin Night at the “Pops” on May 15, the Thursday before —and official beginning—of Ivy. The Glee Club soloists this year were Johnny Morrell. William Ilazcn (vs. the baritone section), David Hoerle and Clemens Hcusch, tenors; Donald Hayward and Douglas Reid, baritones; and II. Davi- son Osgood, bass. Gordon Sterns was the accom- panist, assisted by Lew Welch, when assistance was needed. This year the President of the “Mcddics” alter- nated with the President of the Glee Club in con- ducting the College Medley. In the past, the presi- dent of the club has closed the Glee Club concerts by conducting the Medley. Hating got this far, successfully remembering the rules of Freshman composition, and always speaking in the third person, I find that accepted practice is to make a short tribute to the Conductor. However, tributes are very hard to make in the third person, and tend to be impersonal, what with “Unusually successful seasons and “Fine spirit and all such generalities. If the Glee Club has been successful— if we have given pleasure to ourselves and to our listeners through music, tve all know the reason, and I'm sure the club joins me in saying humbly and thankfully, Thank you, Tilly.

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First Row, left to right: W. KENNEDY, R. LOCKE, Director; W. HARMON. Second Row, left to right: D. COLEMAN. F. WYATT, R. GROUT. R. ALLEN. BRASS SEXTET Stressing tlie classical brass music of the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, the Brass Sextet has done much in furthering knowledge and appreciation of this little- known field. This year favored composers have included Monteverdi, Hindemith, and Gabrieli. The ensemble specializes in Tower Music which has been played from the roof-top of the Searles Science Build- ing. Besides these outside programs, the sextet has played at musical chapels, stu- dent recitals, the Farnsworth Museum, and the campus concert of the Bowdoin Music Club when they combined with the Bowdoin Music Club Chorus. Last year their trips included Freeport, and Smith College. Forming the sextet this year arc: Wil- liam F. Wyatt, Jr., ’53, trumpet; Donald M. Coleman, ’55, trumpet; Warren C. Har- mon, ’52, trombone; J. Ward Kennedy, ’55, trombone; Richard H. Allen, ’54, bari- tone; Robert C. Grout, ’54, bass. Pro- fessor Russell Locke of the Music Depart- ment is the conductor. CHESS CLUB Left to right: H. SEAMANS R. CETLIN B. WALD M. KAITZ P. DOWST