Harcum College - Purple Patches Yearbook (Bryn Mawr, PA)

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Turple Tatches Uselma Smith, author of Keyboard Harmony , is with us again this year for harmony instruction. Miss Lois Haupt is giving a lecture course in music appreciation, which we enjoy very much. She is greatly interested in the teaching of music composition to children, and has done some unusual and original work with them. Miss Conger has charge of the chapel singing as well as the Glee Club. We have always taken great pride and pleasure in the Glee Club, and are enjoying our morning usingsi' in chapel more than ever before. ' PERSONALS Margery Atwater shows great poise and self-confidence in her work. Penelope Tarwater's playing indicates a great deal of talent though Mrs. Harcum thinks that just at present there is a little stiffness in it. Jane Pendleton always plays with ease and self-assurance. We feel that she shows more maturity and grace in her playing this year than she did last. Alma Polhemus has nice feeling. We are not well enough acquainted with her playing to make detailed comments, but we are anxious to hear her again soon. ' Betty Sibbett is a talented pianist whose tones are particularly lovely and mellow. Ruth Heller's soprano voice is of lovely quality. Her diction is good and her high notes are clear and full. Lily Rhome plays intelligently and well, but we have heard her only once and are anxious to hear her again before commenting further. Virginia Crawford, Rebecca Tarwater and Helen Watson, though amateurs, have proved themselves entertaining critics. We lighten ourmore serious musical pursuits with a fling at a jazz orchestra under the teaching, management, and supervision of Mr. Weaver. Though we have had but one rehearsal which, naturally, was not too successful, we are looking forward to a very interesting and enjoyable year. Tianos-Virginia Crawford, Jane Pendleton. .Mandolins-Elenor Lust, Eleanor Davy, Rebecca Keister, Betty -Sibbett, Betty Knipe. . 'Traps and drum-Virginia Roundey. Saxophone-Helen Dery. X ylophone-Evelyn J ackle. Tells-Mary Louise Chamberlain. 27

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Tu rple GPatches Music At the end of last year those of us who were coming back to Harcum this fall felt a little frightened, when we realized how many of our best music students were graduating. But we have no fear now, we are inspired by our new fellow-workers in music, and are doing our best not to fall behind in the march of musical progress. We welcome our new talent, enjoy it, and expect great things from it. The new girls, recital was an interesting, though slightly diflicult, event of the first week of school. The performers could not help feeling a little nervous and the old girls were a little nervous for them. How- ever, the program moved along very smoothly, and after it was over the new girls thought- How silly to have been scared? We are de- lighted to have five new singers this year along with the greater number of pianists, and shall look forward with more pleasure than ever before to the musicales With the added attraction of vocal selections. This year, Mrs. Harcum plans to have the musicales given every two Weeks. Their frequency as well as the fact that they are to take place in the studio! removes the tense awesomeness of the occasion and produces a more relaxed and home-like atmosphere. There have been several musicales since the very first one-each more successful than the preceding one and showing more poise and self-assurance on the part of the girls. George Boyle, well-known pianist, teacher and composer, is a member of the music faculty this year. We feel privileged and honored. He gave a recital at school Friday evening, October fifteenth. We came away breathless at the amazing ease of his technique, and uplifted and inspired by the interpretation of the music itself. He played a very interesting program, and was most generous in his encores. PROGRAM fl-?ralzms . ..... Rhapsodie in G minor Schumann Q A . 'Vogel als Prophet Papillons Nocturne in D fiat ' Sonata in B flat minor Grave-Doppio movimento Allegro , Marche funebre Presto - Qhopin . . George Poyle . . . r gi-giigfcine Tebussy . . . ....... Minstrels ,Qiszt-Qusonfi ........... Polonaise QCODA-by Busoni, dedicated to Mr. Boylej 26

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Turple Tatches Ufllumnae otes Betty Konkle of Grand Rapids, Mich., was married to VValter M. Blickle on Saturday, Sept. 25th. They are living at 14 Madison Apts., Grand Rapids, Mich. Betty is the first bride of '26. Among old Harcum girls who attended the Wedding were Jane Wurzburg. maid of honor, Phyllis Hollindrake, Lucile Kline, and Nfary lVIcMullen. Lucile Kline is visiting in Madison, Wisconsin. She Will later visit in Eau Claire, her former home. Mary McMullen is staying at home this year. i Helen Thompson made her debut in November at a dance, given by her parents in Norfolk, Va. Peggy Burch entered Bryn Mawr this fall. VVe see her quite often -still the same old Peg, except for the Permanent.,, Mildred Theimer of Brooklyn, N. Y., has announced her engage- ment to Mr. Richard Griffiths of New York. Margery McLellan and lVIargaret Toohey of 1920 had lunch with Miss Adams at the Algonquin not long ago. In the course of the conversation Margery mentioned that she Was on her Way to visit Helen Evans and Elsie Millar, Who are entering their third successful tea- house seascn. Helen has quite recuperated from the operation she Was forced to undergo last J une. lVIargery also said she Was on her Way to her beloved book shop in Miami. Carolyn Kulp has just announced her engagement to Mr. Mederic A. Hard of Burlington, Vermont. Eloise Gibbud is at Syracuse this year. She has made the rifle team. Patty Wood and Betty Thompson are Harcum's representatives at Smith. Margery Kimball and Elinor Reed are continuing their music at the Boston Conservatory of Music. 28