Dakota Wesleyan University - Tumbleweed Yearbook (Mitchell, SD)

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The University Ensemble is an organization interested in the study of concerted music suitable to such an organization. The Ensemble also makes frequent public appear- ances, besides furnishing music for the college plays at the Nletropolitan theatre. One of the most delightful of instrumental ensembles is the String Quartet. The greatest composers have all made contributions to string quartet literature. The Univer- sity quartet studies these beautiful works and presents some of them each year in a public CODCCIT. One Hundred Seventy

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MUSICAL ACTIVITIES The Philharmonic Society numbers over three hundred and fifty members of both University and Nlitchell people. The following programs were given the past year: I-Iandel's IVIessiab at the Corn Palace, December fifteenth, with soloists, Eliza- beth lVIacCollin, soprano, and Carl Norrbom, bass, both of Sioux City, Iowa, and Ger- trude Darsie, contralto, and George Darsie, tenor, of Los Angeles, California. The Festival program at the Corn Palace, April eighth, consisted of: SIGURD JoRsA1.EAR SUITE ........... .... G rieg ORCHESTRA UNI-'OLD X713 PoRTALs. . . . . . .Gaunod TIYIXIN TO Music .......... . . .Buck THE HEAVENS ARE 'TELLING ....... . . .Haydn CHORUS GRANDE Po1.oNA1sE BRILLIANTE .............. ..Clwpin MR. GRAHAM AND ORCHESTRA GREETING TO SPRING. . . .... Srmuss 'TRIUZXIPHANT CHORUS. ................... . . .Hfhgner GRCH ESTRA AND CHORUS lllerle Alcock, a contralto, late of the llfletropolitan Opera company presented a concert in the same auditorium on April tenth. The A Capella Choir, a new organization on the campus, sang at all chapel meetings during the year, gave a program of Christmas Carols from all Nationsn in the Chapel, December eighth, presented Dubois' Seven Last Words of Christ at the Metlicndist Church, Good Friday night and assisted Rollin Pease in his Concert at the same place, May twenty-ninth. The 1929-30 Wesleyan Band has seen a very hne increase in membership over that of the previous year. With greater numbers came more strength and ability, resulting in a real musical organization. The Band travelled with the team and student body to every out of town football game, as well as playing for home games and pep meetings. During the basketball season, every home game found the band on the Corn Palace stage, adding its part to the pep and Spirit ofthe evening. One Hundred Sixty-nine

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WIN DED Q A A' -V- 32553 . f WT A fx 0 fa ffm PHI KAPPA PHI HONOR SOCIETY Phi Kappa Phi is a national scholastic honor society, founded in 1897 at the Univer- sity of llflaine. lt provides an organization dedicated to the unity and the democracy of education, that shall give recognition to scholastic excellence to honor graduates and un- dergraduates in all departments of American universities and colleges. Election to this society is a mark of scholastic achievement in the academic work of the college course, and signifies in addition the possession of qualities of personality and character such as crystal- ize into campus leadership in student activities. Election to Phi Kappa Phi is a signal scholastic and personal honor, open to the members of the senior class each year who achieve scholarship records which place them in the upper fourth of their class. OFFICERS or THE DAKOTA CHAPTER or PHI KAPPA PHI RALPH E. DUNBAR. . . ..,.... President BERNICE BRADY ..... . . . Vice-President CLARA SINCLAIR .... ...... S ecretary .IENNIE B. FLEMING. . . . .Treasurer CECIL J. SEMANS. . . .... .7VIarslzaI EDWVARD S. BOYER. . . . . .Historian OTHER FACULTY IVIEMBERS or PHI KAPPA PHI H. G. Baker Alvah A. Beecher Eva R. Dawes lVIarion J. Douglas Stewart A. Ferguson lVIargaret IVI. Field Paul Heide NIargaret Hyde Helen Fishheck Paul Hansen Jesse J. Knox Ray M. Lawless Grace Reed Porter Chester L. Rich STUDENT IVIEMEERS Terine Kron Hazel lVIiller One Hundred Seventy-one Earl A. Roadman Alva Tolf Tatiana Vacquier James A. VanKirk Katherine VanKirk Thelma Otis Adelaide VVeedman