Cumnock School - Chronicle Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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May May May june ...... june june june BOYS' TRIO Seated: Mrs, Shry-Ock. Standmg: Raymond Shry-Ock, Jack Condon, Kenneth Heady, . . . . . . .Cumnock's Second Salon lvlusicale, with Ann Adams as piano soloist, Girls' Clee Club-Young lVlen's Chorus and Elizabeth Trethaway, pianist. Soloists: Rennay and Raymond F. Shry-Ock. Ralph Pierce, accompanist. .May Festival, Pageant with Cumnock Dancers, Clee Club. . . . . . . .Song Program, Ciirls' C-lee Club, at Mothers' Club Tea. Song Recital, presenting private singing students of Mrs. Shry- Ock:-Ceraldine Klepetko, Ann Adams, l-lelen Blrney and Ray- mond F. Shry-Ock, assisted by Ralph Pierce, pianist. .Annual Spring Concert, Ciirls' C-lee Club and Young Men's Trio, with Rennay Shry-Ock, Soprano, and Raymond F. Shry-Ock, vio- linist. Ralph Pierce, accompanist. .Baccalaureate Service, presenting Ciirls' C-lee Club and Young lVlen's Trio. .Commencement Program. 63

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l Seated: Mrs, Shry-Ock. Standing: Beverly Henigson, El'zabeth Hofert, Helen Birney, Gayle Theobold, l'eb Betty Ann Wilson, Norma Nilson, Virginia Lindau, Margaret Sturgeon, Gforia Baltzer, Charlotte Gotti , Ann Adams. Activities of Cumnock's Choral Groups l937-38 school year introduced two new members to the music faculty, Rennay Shry-Ock, director ot the music department. concert soprano and conductor ot the choral groups, and Raymond F. Shry-Oclk, violinist, as direc- tor ot instrumental ensembles. The first three weeks of the semester were devoted to auditions directed by Mrs. Shry-Ock. Eighteen were accepted as eligible material for the Girls' Glee Club and the Young Men's Chorus. September. .joint Recital, Rennay and Raymond F. Shry-Ock. October ..,. Song Program, Rennay Shry-Ock, for Mothers' Tea. October .... joint Program, Mr. and Mrs. Shry-Ock for Faculty Dinner. October .... Song Program, Mrs. Shry-Ock, assisted by Mrs. Leonora Pier, pianist, for Cumnock Parents' Reception. December . .Song Program, Girls' Glee Club, for Assembly. December . .Christmas Carol Program, Girls' Glee Club and Young Men's Chorus, tor the Pleiades Club, and later for the jonathan Club. December . .Christmas Carol Program, Girls' Glee Club and Young Men's Chorus. january .... Song Program, Girls' Glee Club-Mothers' Club Tea. March ..... Song Program, Young Men's Trio-Student Body Assembly. March ..... Mrs. Shry-Ock entertained Cumnoclk Singers at a Tea. April ....' . .Cumnoclds First Salon Musicale, directed by Mrs. Shry-Ock, Girls' Glee Club and Young Men's Trio in groups ot miscellan- eous numbers, with Helen Birney as piano soloist, and a Franz Shubert recital of songs, violin and piano works, by Rennay Shry-Ock and Raymond F. Shry-Ock, assisted by Ralph Pierce, pianist. 62

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DANCES lmpeccable rhythm mingled with the gay laughter of the Cumnock stu- dents on the occasion of the first school dance-October 29, i937-in the mellow atmosphere of the Deauville Club at Santa Monica. With this dance, the Social Committee made their debut with decided success and they should be congratulated to the fullest extent. The attendance was very good, in fact there were very few Cumnockians who did not or could not attend. The music of Brad Washbourne flowed smoothly the entire evening. Mr. and Mrs. Craig and Mr. and Mrs. Babcock were the school representa- tives, while Marvin Zuckerman's brother and his wife came to give added chaperoning. The student body is indeed grateful to those who were good enough to come but there is a strong suspicion that they enjoyed themselves as much as or more than the students. What is commonly known as a rollicking good time was had on Hallow- e'en evening by the dorm girls. Clad in the funniest costumes obtainable, they marched into a gaily decorated dining room for a timely dinner featuring pumpkin pie, and afterwards took themselves off to the drawing-room for cider, pop-corn, and stunts. However, in this case, cleverness was not ex- clusively possessed by youth, for quite the most humorous of all was the house-mother. Mrs. Cooper, entering into the spirit of the occasion, clad herself in the garb of a bashful country girl, and seemed expert in manipulating a huge wad of gum which she chewed for all she was worth. Between echoing cracks resembling those of a horsewhip, she frequently stretched the gum from her mouth at arm's length. She wore a picturesque old black hat with a chin strap and large plume, an old hip-length brown sweater fastened with mammoth safety-pins, a startlingly short skirt that hung just above two silk clad knees, and ostrich-feathered bedroom slippers. She seemed fond of jumping rope and imitating the characteristic hill-billy drawl. john Levee 64