Daycroft School - Milestone Yearbook (Greenwich, CT)

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MUSIC You should drop in to some Friday afternoon assembly and hear the student body sing- ing rounds! It would really be a treat, for it sounds like a true singing school. This is what the music department wishes to be-the fun department. More and more Daycrofters are learning to appreciate good music. Every Friday seventh period there is a large group that gathers to learn of the development of music and to hear symphonies. Then we have the true spirit of singing in the girls' glee club. Betty Garber says it's the most fun she has all week. Leilah MacRobert and Elizabeth Sheridan hold down the alto part against a real barrage of sops . For we have Muriel, Elinor, Iackie, Mangels, Marion Handy, Karen, Diana, Betsy Graf, and Patsy Elmer. As the girls join the glee club they must sing alone for the group-so recently Violet and Virginia Handy joined up with us. The girls demanded an audition. Virginia was Mary in our Christmas Play, so after her lovely performance she quite prepared to accommodate. 'Violet was taken by surprise but she did well. The glee club sang two Bach Chorales for our Christmas celebration. While speaking of the Christmas play, Don Casanave as Ioseph did a grand job opposite Mary . Karen Pearch and Peter Mclntosh were fine lnkeepers. Now we come to the department of pluggers-the orchestra. They aspire to such num- bers as Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin, Minuet from Haydn's Military Symphony, Andante from Tschaikowsky's Fifth Symphony, Theme from Beethoven's Second Symphony. Two faculty members help to support our eight students who give their all in seventh period on Thursdays. Betsy Lang and Mrs. Smart give the melody in the first violins, Karl Lang and Virginia Forbes give us the harmony on second violins. Don Bly flutes his way while Dick Guilbert clarinets his. Lewis Bly helps our versatile senior Don Starrett with his trum- pet. Don has taken up the French horn and plays it on some numbers. Mr. Kinsman holds forth with either his clarinet or his big saxophone and gives us a good bass. Munro Merrick plays all other parts including his own on the piano most efficiently. The orchestra played the Russian number- March of the Sirdar by Iwanow for our Washington-Lincoln Banquet, also a fine arrangement of the Star Spangled Banner, which Mr. Kinsman made for our group. Along in February everyone including the orchestra were in rehearsals for the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta Pinafore which Daycroft-is giving this year on International Day. Iohn Albee, Iohn Ramseyer, lack Palacios, Don Bly and Dan Starrett have been chosen for the male leads, While Iackie Wootton, Elinor Warren and lackie Mangels will be the prima donnas. as l

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The Daycroit Society of Model Railroad Engineers The Daycroft Society of Model Railroad Engineers is in many ways the most disorgan- ized organization to operate at Daycroft. The society was organized in February of 1941 and has never held a meeting except when by accident two or more members have found themselves in the same place. Fortunately thishas happened often enough to produce some mile and a half tscale 3mm. equals l tootl of track, sundry mountains, a town or two, and others odds and ends. The pike started its career in the Physics Lab and in the fall of 1941 moved to its pres- ent quarters. All the members of the club are officers except Mr. Kinsman who is official Waterboy. Membership which is perpetual is as follows: Paul Starrett '41, Ex-Brass' Hat. Warner Forbes, '41, Ex-Brass Hat. Dan Starrett, '42, Active Brass Hat and Shaken Downer. lack Palacios, '42, Active Brass 1-lat and Supervisor of Tootsietoys. Iackie Mangels, '43, Active Brass Hat and Paint Filtcher. Don Bly, '43, Active Brass I-lat in charge of Short Circuits. Michael Mann, '44, Active Brass Hat in charge of Table Legs. David Stebbins, '48, Active Brass Hat in Charge of Stamford I-lock Shops. Andrew Starrett, '48, Active Brass Hat in charge of Good Excuses. Blair Kinsman, 'X, Water Boy and Bag Holder. 1 ' 'k't' , .- ...- f w . - . , ..a-'ff ,,,,,, . M ' ' 10' 4- - -. ' ' W-fu.. ,. , , -f .,f-1- l.1-www ',1'Qll'.gf .W Built by Paul and Dan Starrett Picture-courtesy of Dan Starrett 38