Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Student Originality Has Its Day Music Department Goes ' All Out ' Four big acts make up the Redskin Revue, Manual ' s annual student-written and produced vaudeville. Mr. E. Edward Green, director of pro- ductions, is shown above conferring with act spon- sors. Seated, Linda Bloemker, Teddy Winckelbach, and Helen Webb. Standing, Jane Clark, Nora May Stevason, Charlene Muse, Laura Snoddy, and Mr. Philip Hirsch, stage director. The Music Department ' s cooperative produc- tion, an operetta, combines both music and dramatic abilities. The Art Department also gets into the act by planning and helping to produce settings and designing posters for publicity. Above in a scene from The Count and the Coed are Larry Barker, Lou Ellen Crow, Delores Fox, and Al Helms. 24

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By participating in school assemblies, the Music Department entertains Manualites with vocal and instrumental music. One of its annual contribu- tions is the Christmas program during which the Choir and Glee Club blend their voices in tradi- tional hymns and Christmas carols. Members of these music groups are shown above in the Christmas processional, carrying candles through the darkened auditorium. Besides school functions, this department pre- sents programs throughout the community for the benefit of churches, hospitals, and various civic groups. When Manual ' s Band is on the move, Supply Officers Dan Brown and George Gritton are the muscles for mov- ing and the security for the instruments and sheet music. The organ prelude by Deloris Fox is a feature of most assemblies. Deloris, shown at the organ in the orchestra pit, is the official accompanist for the Choir.

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There ' s Always Music in the Air in Manual ' s South Wing It may be the blended voices of the Choir or Glee Club, harmonizing chords put together by harmony students, the soft vibrations of percussion instruments, or a sweet melody from the orchestra ' s strings; but there is always music. Hundreds of students participate in sixteen periods of music instruction each day. Vocal and instrumental music classes produce talented per- formers for student productions. Manual musicians also entertain for school parties and club meetings. Danny Chapell and Larry Barker build chords for Mrs. Edith Binkley ' s Harmony class. Harmony gives a student a better appreciation of good music and may even start him on the road to becoming a composer. Sparkling, 3-D snow flakes, made by Miss Gladys Denney ' s Art Production Class, create atmosphere for the Music Depart- ment ' s annual formal dance, the Snow Whirl, January 7. Table decorations included foot-high snowmen and sprigs of spruce. A bank of evergreens walled off the steam-table area of the cafeteria.