Charles W Baker High School - Lyre Yearbook (Baldwinsville, NY)

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THE CONDUCTOR il.siQ,iTii THEBAND Wl1ere The golden sunseT mellow TinTs The wesTern sky Proudly sTands our Alma MaTer On her hillTop high. And wiTh These musical sTrains one is reminded Thaf The academy band, wiTh Mr. Davis as conducTor, is busily preparing Tor an assembly program or concerT. While KaTherine Kinslow labors over The bassoon and Fred Fuess wiTh The bass viol, The eTTorTs prove successTul when every Tuesday The sTudenTs assemble in The audiTorium To The beaT oT Th snappy march Tune so honesTly prepared. The ages OT These musicians range Trom sevenTh grade To seniors in high school. The beginners who aim aT ouTshining even The besT, prove excellenT as youThTul perTormers. And The band has also had iTs share in enTer- Taining The public. The Halloween Mardi Gras TeaTured super marches plus our head cheerleader, Helen Henderson, as drum maioreTTe. FooTball games were brighTened by The backing oT The band and ChrisTmas concerT handed To Mr. Davis and his musicians more bougueTs. The TuTure is deTiniTely aglow Tor The band of B. H. S. BeTTy Kingsley ,. O - 2

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Tl-TE OPERA. .? Every Wednesday and Friday aTTernoon, 8Th peri- ods, a wanderer in The halls mighT sTop and wonder whaT musical company had arrived. Then he would remember ThaT iT was Glee Club day. There are approximaTely 75 members in The chorus making iT one oT The largesT our school has lcnown. Even The man shorTage is iusT slighTly apparenT. The ChrisTmas ConcerT was Tinally given in January aTTer having To be posTponed in December because oT The many illnesses. Some oT The highlighTs oT This perTormance were a girls' sexTeT, a solo by Carolyn Navin, The Czeclcoslavalcian Eollc Song , and We Wish You a Merry ChrisTmas . The laTTer half of The program consisTed OT a cornposiTion enTiTled Noel: A ChrisTmas PoTpourri , which was presenTed by boTh The band and The chorus. Since January The chorus labored on an opereTTa, ln Old Vienna . This was The TirsT Time ThaT an opereTTa was presenTed in B. l-l. S. AT The end oT such a session The Teachers Tincl Themselves delighTTully enTerTained by such excerpTs of The opereTTa as Pickles or The Vision boTh highlighTs oT This musical enTerTainmenT. Under The direcTion oT Mr. Joseph Davis, The academy chorus has conTinued iTs progress Through- ouT The year. Many new Types OT music have been accomplished including A Cappella singing. A greaT TuTure is cerTainly in sTore Tor The academy Glee Club. Evelyn Griebno

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fl. JIMMY PALMER ,J OUR SERVICE IVIEN COB CORNELL I-IET WARNER Lf I -9 if I, f '- ...J NWI 'lf--'-fm In H' X, ggi' I V 9 - I XIIN iw- ,,.L . II f , W E, J A f ',,' 5' I JIM LOOP BOB GREEN ART BAKER I-IARPY I-IALLIGAN AUTY CAMPBELL BOB STEVENS LEON MESSENGE -A wx ' ' NELSON BUTLER