Central Manual Training High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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SCHOOL SENATE

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'hr Gbrrhvntra The Orchestra this year has been so successful that we feel it necessary to enter it in our record of the Senior Class. It has never been so prominent, as at present. A great deal of credit is due to our earnest, faith- ful, and affectionate leader, Mr. Alker, who has by patience and perseverance maintained the present Orchestra. We appreciate the praise and commendations which we have received from the students for the musical numbers rendered. During the year of '07-'08, we rendered music on four occasions, one of which was at a down- town elementary school. We supplied music for two entertainments in different churches. Last of all, during this year, we had the good fortune to play before the body of High and Grammar School Teachers at the Teachers' Convention during the month of April. The past year, '08-'09, we have been equally busy. We had the most commendable honor of be- ing the chosen school orchestra to play at the Public Mass Meeting of the Public Educational Asso- ciation at the Academy of Music during the month of January. During the month of March, we had the great pleasure of having been asked to play at Pitman Grove at a great event, and everything was successful. The last event in which we have taken part was the dedication of the new Nathaniel Hawthorne School, Twelfth and Fitzwater Streets, where great appreciation was shown for the ser- vice we rendered. The above is not for a matter of boasting, but to place before those of the Senior Class, who have not heard much about the orchestra, the importance it has maintained in upholding the standard of dear old Central Manual. F. P. OLDEN, '09, Assistant Conductor. 133

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