Highland Community College - Trail Blazer Yearbook (Highland, KS)

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French Club LE GERGLE FRANCAIS, an organization composed of fifteen French students, is an active group of young people. Its purpose is to gain interest in French and to improve its members' conversational ability. This group meets the first and third VVednesday afternoons of each month, and meetings are conducted in French. This year at the Jan- uary meeting the members gave Le Diner de Noel , an excerpt in play form from Dicken's The Christmas Carol. One of the unusual meetings was the opportunity to attend the movie Mayerling at Atchison. At another time the students enjoyed a supper together where the conversation was all in French. The Cercle also presented a French play Qui a Laisse Les Fleursw at con- vocation. It is an animal custom for the club to have as its guest a speaker of direct French descent or a. brilliant French student who gives a. lecture to the members in French. The students in this club carry on correspondence with young men and young women in France who are studying English. President - - Barbara Beans Secretary - - Ann Lee Nelson Treasurer - - Marilee Nelson Sponsor - - - Miss Sterz FRENCH CLUB Back Row: Eugene Loyd, Eugene Jones, Maurice Batson, Neal Ukena. Middle Row: Marjorie Sawyer, Bette Lee Smith. Charlotte Bunuell, Mary Ellen Gilmore, Betty Rex Davis, Virginia Van Bebber, Miss Sterz, Front Row: Ann Lee Nelson, Barbara Beans, Marilee Nelson. Twenty-five

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CAMERA CLUB Back Row: Mildred Parks, Berniece Denton, Miss Sterz, Donald Loyd, Maurice Batson. Betty Rex Davis. Front Row: Marion Waggoner, Ester Wollen, Mary Ellen Gilmore, Silvia Johnson, Virginia Meyer. Camera THE COLLEGE CAMERA CLUB was organized in 1938 to work with the Trail Blazer staff in obtaining the informal pictures for the year- book. Miss Sterz, who was appointed sponsor of the group. busied herself during the first year in learning to use her camera. while the darkroom work was left to several boys. The club prog'1'essed so rapidly last year that it was decided to add a well fitted dark room to the club equipment. To gain experience, each member was required to expose and develop his own film. In addition the club developed films for other students to pay for the darkroom equipment and to make the club selt'-supporting. The members met the second and fourth Thursdays of each mouth to dis- cuss impersonally the good and bad points of their pictures and to hear summaries of instructive articles on photography. They exper- imented with flood lights and portrait and filter afttachments for superior pictures. A club bulletin hoard was installed on which stu- dent pictures were placed and reprints of these pictures were made and sold. President - - - Mary Ellen Gilmore Vice-President - - - Virginia Myer Secretary - - - Betty Rex Davis Sponsor - - - Miss Sterz Club

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llrohe tra TI-IE ORCHICSTRA offers an opportunity for those who have had in- strumental instruction in high school to continue playing for pleasure and public performance. It is the desire of those in the orchestra to realize enjoyment from ensemble playing as well as to come to a more intimate knowledge of orchestra literature in general. The group makes one assembly appearance and participates in general music programs during the year. Each spring the orchestra joins with the high school orchestra of the county for the annual county music festival held at Troy. Under the able direction of Mr. Smith, the orchestra has realized many of its greatest ambitions. This organization meets once a week for rehearsalg and, although limited in number, balance and harmony between the sections have been well developed. This faithful group hopes to continue its growth in the future both in numbers and instrumentation. ORCHESTRA Back Row: Shelly Miller, Mildred Albers, Hazel Johannes, Walter Brant, Warren Kimmi, Raymond Pederson, Dorothy Campion, Jane Bowron, Mr. Smith. Front Row: Josephine Davis, Ruth Ellen Grove, Robert Frakes, Rosalyn Spickelmier, Dorothy Albers, Charlotte Conell, Dona Muns. Twenty-six