Cleveland High School - Beacon Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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.rw-' 'L jabs' ,Gi 'mu i? '3uv3 u H 'Yr 'ti -'B Jfmr' it THE BEACON Published For The Forty-Fourth Year By The STUDENTS Of The GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL At St. Louis, Missouri JUNE, 1957 M493 +4-if 31' yicm .5 ,,W,,.. Among the most beautiful Ameri- can folk hymns are the Spirituals of the American Negro, These beautiful poetic expressions of their new Christian faith and hope in the happiness promised in a future lite in compensation for the hardships of exile from their native land and of slavery in their new home are communal in origin.

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To the leaders in American music who have contributed so much to our cultural heritage and to the enjoyment ot our leisure, and to the instructors who have given of their talents that others might learn to parti- cipate in and enjoy the se- crets of music which lie hid- den to the passive observer, we, the Senior Classes and the Beacon Staff of l95Z proudly dedicate this book. ,bfi 2 Some of the better known Spirituals are Swing Low Sweet Chariot Sometimes l Feel Like a Motherless Child Look Down That Lonesome Road and I Couldn t Hear Nobody Pray Ella Fitzgerald Bessy Smith Pearl Bailey ' Ethel Waters Louie Armstrong and Lionel Hampton are a few of the gifted Negro vocal- ists who have made our country proud of the American Negro's contribution to our American culture.