Central School - Deeds and Misdeeds Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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16 - DEEDS AND MISDEEDS CENTRAL SCHOOL ORCHESTRA OUR ORCHESTRA MUSIC Boom! Crack! Bang! That was the name of one of the first numbers we learned. No, it doesn’t sound very musical but you know “there’s noth¬ ing in a name.” You must hear us play before you can appreciate what beautiful (?) tones we can produce. Miss Chester, who directs us, has worked hard and patiently with us and has encouraged us to continue our efforts and some day reach the goal for which we are striving. The following have remained faith¬ ful members of the orchestra through¬ out the year: Violin: Virginia Miller, Louis Buch¬ er and Robert Coffee. Cornet: Roll- and Reppert. Slide trombone: Rich¬ ard Odle, Paul Hancher, Robert Schroyer. Saxophone: George Helm, and Franklin Keller, Glenn Dickerson. Drum, Carl Buffenbarger. Piano, Olive Teeter. The pupils of Central building have shown unusual enthusiasm in music this year. Besides the regular funda¬ mental work in Public School music. A Glee Club, made up of boys and girls from the Eighth grade, was or¬ ganized with forty members enrolled. James Burke, president; Thurman Andrews, vice-president; Chalmer De¬ bolt, secretary and treasurer; Bernice Closs, librarian. Three part songs, soprano, alto and baritone were used and so well done the Glee Club was invited to sing on the Chapel programs at the High School and Central. This training will be very valuable to the boys and girls preparatory to Glee Club and Chorus work in the High School. The following numbers were sung on Chapel programs: “On Parade”.Loomis “Boating Song”.Ely “Buccaneers” . Frazier An Orchestra was organized with sixteen members. Four violins, two

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DEEDS AND MISDEEDS —15 lete was injured which ultimately meant death. This little tow-head, hero worshipper, vowed and revowed to live to take the place of this greatest athlete, his ideal. Our tow-head lived true to his ideal and his vow, and grew to be a fine, clean, clear-brained athlete, an hon¬ or to his school, a “scrapper” worthy of his ideal. He lived true to tradi¬ tion and left illuminated tradition be¬ hind. A player was once heard to remark, “As a player I have never used to¬ bacco or liquor in any form. As a lad, I used tobacco; but when an ath¬ lete’s life lured me, the desire, strong¬ er than the desire to smoke, was the desire for a strong body. I could not afford to break training. I wanted the best physical machine possible to build. I wanted endurance, speed, agility, and all that made a good play¬ er. Success comes to the team, which obeys training rules, also to the teams which follow, due to that training tradition. Team brotherhood must be upper¬ most in each squad member’s mind. Teammates find a secret pride in helping each other. Friendliness is closer companionship. Friendliness promotes a feeling of kinship and soon petty jealousy is wiped out; and the men are one big thing—the team. The reflected habits of the boy wor¬ shippers are the habits of his ideals. Strive to be worthy of the trust im¬ posed upon you. Give the best you’ve got and the best will come back to you. Be always “up and at ’em.” Deal the knocker a knockout blow. In crisis boys play outside of them¬ selves. Freed from the bondage of entity, loosed souls afire, they forget all but the sting of defeat. Inspired men like this lead teams to victory. In our sectional tourney this year our center, Gerber, was withheld from all games (due to injury) until the latter part of the final game. The game was anyone’s game with only ten minutes left to play. Gerber went to the rescue and immediately scored three field goals. The team became an inspired team. Bell, Bebout, Ana- dell, and Krick followed with a bar¬ rage of field goals, scoring twenty- five points in ten minutes, winning by the score of 42-17. “If you think you’re beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don’t. If you’d like to win, but think you can’t, It’s almost a cinch you wont. If you think you’ll lose, you’ve lost; For out in the world you’ll find, Success begins with a fellow’s will. It’s all in the state of mind.” —H. L. Curtis. --o- Once again we have arrived at the close of the school term. Another year has vanished into the dim and shadowy past and we are about to enter upon a period of time which will bring for us—we know not what. But, on we must go. There is no turning back or standing still. For many it has been a pleasant and profi¬ table year. The future abounds in opportun¬ ities. What they will mean to us lies wholly within our power to decide. Will we grasp them? -,-o- (Miss Gilbert)—“Who killed Cock Robin?” “It must have been two other fel¬ lows.” Getting the baby to sleep is hard¬ est when she is about eighteen years old. (James Burke)—“Do you like cod¬ fi sh balls, Alice?” (A. James)—“I don’t know. I never attended any.”

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DEEDS AND MISDEEDS ■—17 cornets, a saprano saxaphone, two alto saxaphones, three trombones, one bass drum, two trap drums, and piano. Not having had previous orchestra experience, it took most of the first semester to learn to play together with balance and smoothness. During this time members were tak¬ ing private lessons regularly and be¬ coming more independent players. They worked conscientiously and pro¬ gressed so rapidly they were in¬ vited to play for Chapel programs and Parent-Teacher meeting. They were enthusiastically received and later invited to furnish music between acts of the Eighth grade play. This was the first time Central had furnished music for their own play. Several pot luck suppers were held after rehearsals which added to the interest. We are looking forward to 1928 ex¬ pecting better results with more mem¬ bers added to the violin section. With this year’s experience and the sum¬ mer’s added training, Central ought to have an orchestra prepared to give real pleasure to its hearers. We did not enter the State Music Memory contest this year for several reasons. Instead we decided to make it regular class work ending in a con¬ test confined to Central building alone giving every pupil an equal chance. This resulted in more inter¬ est. Some pupils who had never had an opportunity to listen to good music at home became very much interest¬ ed. This resulted in more enthusiasm in other music work, individual and class, and best of all cultivated an appreciation of good music which is the object of Music Memory study. GLEE CLUB Miss Chester organized a group of the best singers in the eighth grade and started a Glee Club. After a few weeks of tiresome and faithful work we were able to sing a few songs. We took a great interest in our w r ork so the task was not hard to accomplish. Miss Chester soon taught us to sing two special numbers. We were asked to sing for the High School chapel exercise, and sang our best. We later sang for Central chapel. Miss Chester has taken great in¬ terest in the class and we extend our hearty thanks. ■—Alice James. -—o- MUSIC MEMORY In spite of many handicaps, Miss Chester has developed a good music memory team and has helped the school in general very much in music appreciation. The pupils upstairs heard the rec¬ ords only once, yet several perfect scores were turned in. Downstairs, the pupils heard the records several times and it is ex¬ pected that when they reach the eighth grade, there will be some fine material for a team. In the first elimination contest, held in each room, the three best in the room advanced to the contest between the room win¬ ners, upstairs and down, and three were selected from downstairs, and three from the seventh and eighth grades for the final contest between the two floors. The finalists were: Sixth Grade 8A Grade Glenice Tyndall Bernice Closs Virginia Miller Georgia Foughty Mary Maxine Brown James Burke. The 8A grade finally won the con¬ test by beating the sixth grade 46 points. —James Burke.