Fairfield High School - Quill Yearbook (Fairfield, IA)

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ilistnrv nf the Il. 5. ll. i l r I TOP: Come qfuick, Mr. Dillon, come quick! MIDDLE: Revival of Lincoln-Douglas debates. BOTTOM: Oh, don't you remember Sweet Betsy from Pike? 26 The hisTory of The UniTed STaTes of America was broughT To life Through The combined eTTorTs of The vocal music deparTmenT and The STage CraTT club. The inTerludes were wriTTen by Sara How- rey and narraTed by Del Swan. lT's A Grand Old Flag was The opening num- ber sung by The Choir. T776 was relived in The singing of Yankee Doodle, ChesTer, and Skip To My Lou My Darling. FluTe and snare drum combined in playing The SpiriT of '76. Progressing inTo The l82O's, Jump Jim Crow was sung by The Girls' Glee Club. Tom Baker sang Old Man Tucker aTTer a joke TesT wiTh Dave Joss and Jim Evans. AgainsT a background of covered wagons and blue lighTs, Dick RineharT sang SweeT BeTsy from Pike. Bruce MclnTire, acTing as Marshal MaT Dillon, relivecl a scene wiTh his side-kick, ChesTer, played by Tom Crandall. Girls' Glee Club opened The l86O's wiTh Swing Low, SweeT CharioT and LiTTle David, Play Cn Your Harp. Abraham Lincoln and STephen Douglas were made To live again by Bill Kaska and Neal Rains. An old planTaTion TavoriTe Jeanie WiTh The LighT Brown Hair was sung by Jim Cornick. Our American Tlag was spoTlighTed as The Choir sang The BaTTle Hymn of The Repub- lic The pace was sTepped up wiTh Carole Luck- man's song l'm Only A Bird in A Gilded Cage. Gay cloThes and high spiriTs which prevailed in The l800's were revived in The singing of Daisy and There'lI Be A HoT Time ln The Old Town TonighT. A young serviceman iniured in The war, porTrayed by Bob Crandall, sang Break The News To MoTher. A sequence of hill-billy liTe was The Theme Tor The era of l9lO. Anne AusTin and Connie Kiger did a Li'l Abner skiT in panTomine. Dressed in TaTTered cloThes and shoeless, The Madrigal sang BareTooT. Jim Reynolds inTroduced The l92O's wiTh Swan- ee. Symbolic of The music which lives on is The ST. Louis Blues which was sung by Carole Luckman. STephanie BeesTrum and Roger John- son, dressed as Tramps, sang Side By Side. God Bless America, The song ThaT made KaTe SmiTh Tamous, was sung by RoberTa Paul. As uniformed symbols of The armed 'forces were spoTlighTed, The Madrigal ll sang Their various baTTle songs.

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musical Perfection FRONT ROW: S. Swanson, S. Howrey, R. Paul, N. Wolfe, M. Hunt, J. Ulin, B. Blough, L. Bates, M. Ryan. ROW 2: M. C. Shafer, P. Thoma, M. E. Zimmerman, L. Hollander, B. Curtis, D. Bower, B. Brown, K. Smufz, L. Finney, N. Singley. ROW 3: T. Crandall, J. McCabe, M. Johnston, T. Baker, F. Brandl, J. Raymond, N. Rains, B. Reynolds, J. Wood, D. Joss. ROW 4: R. Loomis, R. Langner, B. Kaska, D. Rine- hart, R. Watson, J. Cornick, F. Stever, R. Maple, B. Crandall, R. Johnson. As in The pasT years Fairfield again Took parT in The STaTe Music ConTesT Tor small ensembles and soloisTs in insTrumenTal and vocal music work. Small groups enTering from Fairfield were Nladrigal l, Madrigal ll, Double-Mixed QuarTeT, and The Girls' Trio. Vocal soloisTs enTered were Roberta Paul, KaThy GamraTh, Dana WhiTe, JaneT Miller, and Carole Luckman. Those enfering piano solos were Bob Crandall, Dana WhiTe, and PaT Thoma. Each year an executive council is elecTed from The members of Choir, To decide Themes Tor The annual concerTs, plan The budgeT, and di- recT money-raising proiecTs. lT has been a cusTom ThaT The presidenT be a senior, The vice-presidenT a junior, and The secreTary a sophomore. The council elecTed for The l96O-6l school year was: Jim Cornick, presidenT, Belinda Brown, vice-presidenT, and KenT Vorhies, sec- reTary. This year, Jane Ulin was elecTed To The newly creaTed posT of Treasurer. OTher members of The council were: Donna Buch, Carole Luckman, Tom Crandall, and Barbara CurTis. MosT of The accompanisT's work is done be- hind The scenes, however, The imporTance of Their work is unquesTionable. Their varied responsibiliTies included organ preludes Tor The concerTs, rehearsing wiTh small ensembles, The larger groups, and vocal soloisTs Tor sTaTe conTesT. ACCOMPANISTS: D. Bower, J. A. Harden, M. Switzer, D. Billingsley, P. Thema. 25

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Iieueuled Thrnugh music Tribute to our new states of Alaska and Hawaii was paid by Susan Ewart with her recitation of The Cremation of Sam Magee, and a hilarious hula dance done by boys dressed in grass skirts and Ieis. An expression of the feeling every United States citizen has for his country was given by Madri- gal ll in singing This is My Country. A tribute to Rodgers and Hammerstein was paid as the finale of the evening's performance. Music from Oklahoma, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, and The King and I was presented with various routines. Getting to Know You from The King and I, was sung by Roberta Paul. The boys showed their approval of the female sex with the lively There ls Nothing Like a Dame. Margaret Ryan, Stephanie Beestrum, and Kathy Gamrath voiced their approval of the compliment by singing l Enjoy Being a Girl. The prelude to Do Re Mi was done by Madri- gal II with the Choir ioining in on the chorus. Climb Every Mountain concluded a medley of great songs from the inspired pens of Rodgers and Hammerstein. 1- ALL-STATE On Thanksgiving Day the excited members of two mixed quartets from Fairfield High School were off for Des Moines. There they were to represent our school at the annual All-State Chorus Festival. The seven-hundred All-Iowa choral representa- tives attended diligent rehearsals in preparation for the final concert at the KRNT Theatre. Though these practices were hard, industrious ones, they ultimately proved to be worthwhile. The singers in attendance had previously learned the eight selections that were to be performed. The necessary polish was added to the numbers through the vigorous efforts of the Festival con- ductor, Mr. Weston Noble. The trip's high light occurred with the Saturday night concert, blending the voices of the seven- hundred musicians before a full house. TOP: Plantation life portrayed by Freshmen girls. BOTTOM: A medley of Rodgers and Hammerstein music. All-State Quartets: J. Miller, T. Crandall, J. Swan, G. Rizor K. Taylor, B. Cranclall, D. Buch, D. White. 27