Charlotte High School - Witan Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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A Scrap Book for the School By June Griswold Sixty Years of Charlotte Schools—A Scrap Book Mrs. Kmnia Pollard Greer has given to the school a scrap book which today tells the history of Cliarlotte’s activities for over half a century. Mrs. Greer, a former Charlotte teacher, started the Scrap Book in the year of 1S72 and has kept the programs of the commencements, musical festivities and school exhibits in it. In looking over the Scrap Book one finds that many of the participants are leading men and women in the community today and their chil- dren are enjoying the Charlotte High School life for which they laid the foundation. The presentation of this Scrap Book to Mr. Spinning, on behalf of tlu Public Schools of Rochester, formed an ini|iortant part in the 9A commencement exercises last June. It is hoped that the students will cherish this gift which Mrs. Greer has made possible only by the work of a life time. Present day pupils will have to live fifty years to appreci- ate what it contains. The Story of a Concert Tour By Mildred Lee Alxnit a year ago the Lake Avenue Baptist Church Choir was invited to sing at the Calvary Baptist Church in Washington. D. C. In accepting this invitation we decided to make a tour of several Ivastcrn cities. At six-thirty in the morning of April twenty-third, sixty of us were ready to start the tour m which we had all been looking forward. That day we sang in Sayre, Pa., and in Williamsport. Wednesday we were in Phila- delphia. Thursday morning we had only time to see the high spots of the city. I believe everyone in the choir received a thrill when w« sang at Pendle Hill, a Quaker school. It is a very old stone house up on a beautiful hill. All the class rooms are in a remodeled barn. Bach building is white-washed. Frederick, Maryland, was our stop Thurs- day evening. Fatly Friday morning we went to Washington where arrangements had been made for a sight-seeing trip around the city. For those who had not been there before, the Lincoln Memorial and tlte Unknown Soldier’s tomb were most impressive. After a successful concert at the Calvary Baptist Church, our buses took us to New York. We stopped in Princeton. N. J.. tor breakfast at the Westminister Choir School of which our director, Prof. G. A. Lehman, was a student and later a member of the faculty. There, we had the honor of singing in their beautiful chapel. To me the biggest thrill of the trip was singing “Hosanna” for the com- poser. David Hugh Jones, who is a memlier of the faculty of that school. Almost immediately after our arrival in New York City, we went to the Columbia Playhouse, for a half hour coast to coast broadcast. In the evening a small group of us saw the (Continued on puyc thirty-five) EIGHTEES