Fitchburg High School - Boulder Yearbook (Fitchburg, MA)

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OUR GLEE CLUBS Iccted altogether and nothing else would do but thew must have a Glee Club also. Just what Mr. Cobb really thought of this jn ' ojeet we have never been able to aseertain, but from that moment the Girls’ Glee Club beeame an established biet. At first so many eandidates presented themselves that it must have been no small job to weed out the ineligible, and, as it was, the number which remained was much in excess of our own. He managed it, however, in his usual masterly manner, and trained them so well that the two clubs were enabled to give a concert at the high school which was acknowledged b ' ever ' one to be the greatest musical event of the season, in its line. Boys’ Club Ralph Champney, Harold Chandler, Ralph Cushing, Otto Derick, Leon Dickinson, Earl Dudley, George Ellstrom, George Fitzroy, Ralph Garno, Montgomery Goodwin, William Hackett, Herbert Hayes, Robert Humphre ' , Levi Lawrence, William Lawrence, Robert Littlehale, Burton Lord, Winthrop Lord, George Lovering, Porter Lowe, Ralph Lowe, Edward McLean, George Miller, Leslie Alossm an, Gu ' Newcombe, Herbert Patch, James Patch, Herbert Robbins, William Robbins, Howard Ross, J. Frank Scott, Charles Sheehan. Girls’ Club Josephine Baldwin, Alice Bartow, Florence Batchelder, Marion Burrage, Hazel Kimball, Anna LaRue, Clara Moore, Frances Morrill, 30

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A s soon as we were all running smoothly again in the well-worn rut of hard study and grind, Mr. Cobb issued a call for volunteers to make up the Glee Club, and for a few weeks the building resounded with a series of discordant shrieks and groans which were later to be metamorphosed by “Our Director’s” magic touch into the sweetest and most harmonious chorus of male voices that has ever raised the ra fters of our dear old Alma Mater. No sooner had we assembled in martial array than Mr. Cobb found himself confronted by two stu- pendous problems, namely: To teach Hackett to sing in time, and to keep young Robbins out of mischief. Incredible as it may seem, after many weeks of pa- tient drill, intermixed with myriads of dire threats and dreadful imprecations, both were eventually solved and we were all tamed down sufficiently to make a tremendous hit at our first public appear- ance. In fact, our popularity became so great that the girls became alarmed lest they should be neg- 29

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OUR GLEE CLUBS Girls’ Club — Continued Irene Carter, Irene Caswell, Agnes Crotty, Hazel Damon, Mary Desmond, Hilda Dickinson, Marion Emerson, Lena Hardy, Pearl Harrington, Gertrude Hawkins, Florence Hersom, Margaret Hitchcock, Emma Hosley, Mabel Johnson, Marion Jones, Gertrude Neil, Helen Nutting, Alice Page, Helen Parks, Fannie Pierson, Helen Quinlan, Edna Roach, Jessie Rockwell, Helen Scanlon, Frances Smith, Grace Stockwell, Esther Warren, Sibyl Willard, Christina Wilson, Florence Wood. 31