Heath High School - Pirata Yearbook (West Paducah, KY)

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Our band has become one of the high lights of the Music Department despite the fact of having much difficulty in acquiring a permanent director. Our last year's director, Mrs. Margaret Kelley, received a position as Music Supervisor in Paducah City Schools, thus leaving the position vacant to be filled by a Murray grad- uate, Miss Thyra Creekmur. Miss Creekmur, after deciding she preferred keeping house to teaching school, left the position to Mr. Charles Farmer, another Murray graduate, who is our director at present. NVith a large percentage of experienced mem- bers, along with equally as many inexperienced ones, the band has grown into one of accom- plished and skilled musicians. Repairs were made on all the instruments and several new ones were added at the beginning of the year. A different type of music such as concert music, overtures, and waltzes, was played this year as compared with the marches played heretofore. BAND First Row, left to right-Sarah Frances Bag- well, Jean Vance, Sybol Humphrey, Mary War- ford, John Mays, James Mobley, Kenneth Thomp- son, Eugene Perkins, Martha Sue Mays, Imogene Potter, Otis Page, Billy Manning, Neil Baker Childress, Herbert Lax, Josephine Suiter, and Howard Taschner. Bottom Row, left to right-Carolyn Tan- ner, Franklin Lax, Louis Schmidt, Jean Stewart, Miss Creekmur fdirector at time picture was takenj, Marianna Mace, Marjorie Mace, Doris Miller, Audrie Mace, Edith Jett, and Harry Gish.

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DRAMATIC CLUB Actions speak louder than words. The Dramatic Club, sponsored by Mrs. Harvey Koch, has contributed much to various programs dur- ing the school year, some of which are: Armistice and Christmas programs, Thanksgiving Festival, and the Fair entertainments, as well as chapel programs throughout the entire year. A part of thc group is shown in costumes as the character parts they played in the various plays, others as readers, bringing out their own personalities. Those participating in the Thanksgiving pro, gram are: Rosella Meyers, Ruth Hughes, Ber- trand Holley, Edith Potter, Jean Stewart, Calista Langston, Alice Earle Gholson, Aline Jett, Bar- bara Nell Harris. lk... ln The members who played the roles in one of the outstanding attractions of the year, the play entitled He H7115 A Gay Sl'Il0l'ifIlH are: Franklin Lax, Martha Sue Mays, Henry E. Rus- sell, Doris Marley, jim Ed Manning, Martha Neel, Hilda House, Harry Gish, Marcella Tim- mons, Moss Carroll Hill, and Roy Stewart. The character portrayals are: Beauton Thompson, Little Bad Boy, Betty Koch, Dancerg jackie Carroll, Little Christmas Girl, Anna Fay Koch, Fairy, Doris Dean Ragland, Guest at Tom Thumb Weddingg and Thelma Cathey, Reader. Insets: Martha Sue Lassiter and Tandy Roper, Mother and Father in Tom Thumb Wetldingg Mrs. Harvey Koch, John Earl Harting, musical reader at various programs. . f. -'14 -- aa.1t - -BETA 'F.'J7'?Sf31 am.---eai3EW'ivf-' VE ' wif- - - -- - 1 '- 4 , sn1'r'5.'-'-.lam 'iw -' - - 1 L-f -: v -2 Anus!-.sH'aa x'--iflt. 2 m. ,2Jt.i2g,:,ga f:5.,5g:.1:a,:-. -5- 5- ua Aew.x,,r,'i' 1- - f -r , , . ' f ' A' . . ' ' '.v.',:11qfp 5l':'1-+-i'-rx 3,g.t5 gif-f: .f 1:g,f,W,:.af5fL:.i .52,Pfp,g.,,'u1:.-'Q .i .. f I r rw- - - -- ' ' - ' . - ' ' - ' - - - 4,-,mf I

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A The A Cappella Choir has performed efficient- ly in the many programs and activities through- out the year. Under the supervision of Miss Thyra Creekmur, such programs as a carnival, operettas, Armistice Day program, Thanksgiv- ing Day Festival, and a Christmas cantata were sponsored. The choir entered the First District Music Contest held at Murray. CAPPELLA CHOIR Members Members: Top Row, left to right-James Feezor, Harry Gish, Freeman Rogers, Van Dud- ley Fiser, Page Crawford, Billy Manning, Jim Ed Manning, Moss Carroll Hill, Franklin Lax, Herbert Lax, Charles Watford, Nat Pitt, Neil Baker Childress. Bottom Row, left to right: Frances Childress, Anna Jean McKinney, Mary Edith Lax, Doris Marley, Doris Ruark, Anna Louise Russell, Mar- tha Sue Mays, Carolyn Tanner, Edith Jett, Imo- gene Potter, Hugh Anna Marshall, Mary XVar- ford, Doris Miller, Aileen Fiser, and Harriett Lane.