James Whitcomb Riley High School - Hoosier Poet Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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Glee Club HE Riley Glee Club has grown immensely in the past few years. At the present time, two periods a day are devoted to it. There is an approximate membership of one hundred and sixty in this active organ- ization. Members are: Duane Bowerman. Junior Faulkner, James Faulk- ner, James Cary, Bob Frazier, Phil Fry, Jack McCune. Philip McGeke, Harold Noggle, John Clark, Louis Minnes, Bob Smith, Bill Stevens, Robert Swinehart, Carmen Castrejon, Betty Cifra, Virginia Eckhart, Helen Jerue, Doris Miller. Catherine Schiltz, Irene Schultz. Delores Wilke, Adal- gisa Bada, Ruth Ann Boss, Irene Geal. Mary Gilliom, Nadine Harper. Gladys Hughes, Barbara Keller, Audrey Knepp. Jean Lucas, Gerry Ober- man, Phyllis Riddle. Kathleen Simmons, Mildred Boss, Ruth Borough, Janet Goffeney. Agnes Haney, La Verne Kepschul, Freda Korkhouse, Florence Kristowski, Marilyn Luthman. Betty Jean Rowe, Ernestine Steg- man, Edna Bair, Sarah Ann Berger, Beatrice Boberg, Jeannette Bowman, Zoe Brainerd, Doris Bunch, Billie Jean Conrad, Dorothy Duker, Delores Eber. Barbara Fites. Maxine Frisk, Marguerite Gillies, Wanda Hartel, Marthajane Hively. Irene Jolche. Mary Kalabiska, Virginia Kindig, Josephine Koontz, Constance Lewis Ste- phanie Lukasiak. Evelyn Moore, Alma Much, Betty Peet, Ursula Petzke. Patsy Roberts, Edith Schultz, Betty Bernice Smith, Rose Staleri. June Walz. Elsie Weinstein, Marie Woters, Joe Acito, Robert Gibson. John Gil- liom. Bob Perkey. Carleton Sinclair, Arthur Reed, Harry Strauss, Dick Swisher, Eugene Barnes, Maynard Erickson. John Leader, Ed Lewieki. Earl Meilke, Arthur Regan, George Rodibaugh. Jack Rowe, James Treacy, John Joyal. Kitty Amos, Racyn Barber, Victoria Capatina. Gretchen Crowell, Lucile Ellis, Gloria Jean Ide, Josephine Jambrich. Marjorie Maloney. Josephine Poyser, Anna Lu Reed, Lisa Skillern, Elaine Weber, Donna VJintz. Kathryn Zaworska, Alice Zillmer, Virginia Abrams. Mary Dubin, Alma Jean Exaver, Esther Ewing. June Foster. Florence Fites. Mae Lewis, Betty Priester, Ruth Shrimer. Paula Staley, Barbara McCaughan, Nina Montgomerie. Jeanne Schultz, Mona Steele, Jeanne Weaver. Evelyn VJegner. Gertrude Vylolfe. Verna Bowman, Jean Bell. Catherine Baker, Vera Bryleske, Nellie Lee Cary, Vida Mae Castle. Jane Ditsch, Eileen Dunbar, Lucille Gargoszo. Glenna Garn, Betty Hall, Romona Henry, Margaret Huryon. Mary Kertai, Rosemary Mason, Esther Nikoley. Eileen Nusshart. Patricia Orrison, Billie Ostheimer, Alice Strickland. Dorothy Swanson, Eve- lyn Torok. Fannie Valchoff, Joan Vanderbosch, Marjorie Vaughn, June Wagener, Dorothea Vilaldvogel, Dor- othy XVilliamson. Donnabelle Wynn, Eleanor Edwards and Helen Weidman. MISS BARBARA KANTZER The oflicers of the Glee Club are: Doris Bunch, president: Bill Stevens, nrst vice president, and Helen Wleidman. second vice president. The ofiice of secretary-treasurer is filled by two people, Patsy Roberts and Virginia Abrams. because of the two periods. Librarians are: James Cary, Phyllis Riddle, James Treacy and Glenna Garn. Some of the music which has been prepared by the club is: Christiansen's Lost in the Night, Donkey Serenade by lirimlz Music of Life by Cain. and some Latvian Folk songs, The credit lor this nne organization goes to Miss Kantzer who, through her splendid cooperation and tireless efTorts has made the club one of the most outstanding musical groups of the city.

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The Band INCE 1931, when it was hrst started, the band has been steadily climbing upward. This semester for the first time since its origin, the band has the full concert instrumentation required for symphonic band. The two people responsible for this successful rise of the band are Miss Kantzer and Mr. Riggs. the school music directors, lt was begun by Miss Kantzer in 1930, who in 1934 turned over her duties to Mr. Riggs who has supervised the band ever since. Our very time marching band appears at the local football games with brilliant marching maneuvers, which are becoming more complicated every year. The unique waltz maneuver is favored by everyone. Since it was presented, the band has had to repeat it several times. Last September 23, our m-arching band was out- fitted with new uniforms which they truly deserved. The color of the new uniforms is the dark Northwest- ern purple trimmed with gold, which gives the band a striking appearance. However, now that the football season is over, the band is turning its attention to the more serious and diflicult concert music. This season's repertoire includes: The William Tell Overture by Rossini: Amparito Rocco by Texidor: On the Trail from the Grand Canyon Suite by Ferde Grofe: Pictures at an Exhibition by Moussorgesky: Cowboy Lament by J. De Forest Cline: The Sixth Symphony, sometimes referred to as the Pathetique Symphony, by Tschaikowsky, and Finlandia by Jean Sebelius. Several marches are also included. As this goes to press, the band is just starting its concert season. This year, as usual, the -band will give its annual school concert and its annual Grace M. E. Church concert. The Grace Church concerts have al- ways been great successes and that is why they are repeated each year. Another outstanding activity is the annual Blossom Parade in Michigan when they give a tireless marching performance. Each year they have been the guests of the Lakeview Hotel which well proves that besides its prominent musicianship, the band also maintains a Hne reputation. The band has a membership of ninety members. It almost has to be reorganized each year because graduation usually takes some of the out- standing members away. The band practices an hour each day in the school auditorium. Mr. Riggs hopes that some day they will have a private rehearsal room for band and instrumental practice only. The ofhcers of the band are elected every year: seniors. of course, being the first choice. The position of student director, which was ori- ginated a few years ago by Mr. Riggs is being capably Killed by Edna Butz. The other current officers are: Jean Wolfram, president: Gerald Detweiler, vice president: Betty Wolfram. secretary: Gertrude Wolfe, treasurer, and Annette Gill and Jean Andrews. social chairmen. There are many small instrumental groups within the band. These quartets. quintets and trios practice every Thursday. They are working MR. PERCY H. RIGGS on diflicult music and expect to give a concert in the spring.

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The Senior Drama Club HE Senior Drama Club of Riley has long been one of the most important organizations of our school. Some of you may still remember the Drama Club when it was sponsored by Miss Richmire with that prominent pair, James Perry and Betty Fitch. For a short time after Miss Richmire left us, the direction of this organization went over to Miss McDavit. At the present time it is under the able direction of Miss Estrich. The Drama Club has always maintained the highest of standards. They have as their purpose the improvement of MISS ESTRICH drama and they aim to present the best. This organization was established and is maintained for the purpose of discover- ing and developing those who are gifted with such talent or acting ability. The present membership is over fifty students whom you have seen, and will con- tinue to see until they leave Riley, on our stage in class plays and various other types of assemblies as well as their annual Drama Club production, which is a three-act play given every spring. This year it is to be presented on February 24, 1939. Although spring is their big season, the Drama Club has presented two delightful programs this semester: The Flattering Word given to assembly ll, and Dicken's Christmas Carol, their Christmas production. The chief character figuring in 'AThe Flat- tering Word is a minister who is deadly opposed to the theatre. The complication in the plot appears when his wife's friend, a prominent actor, comes to visit. However, it happens that the minister is a human creature at heart, and is susceptible to The Flattering Word, which is You should have been on the stage! He comes to the conclusion that perhaps the theatre isn't as bad as he had made it seem. Starring in the immortal work authored by the famous English novelist of the nine- teenth century, were Walter Koester as Scrooge, Dick Miller as Bob Cratchit, Joseph To- rok as Marley's Ghost, and many other talented members of this club. The ofHcers who head the Senior Drama Club at this time are Barbara McCaughen as President, Jeanne Weaver as Vice President, and Myrtle Horning as Secretary-Treasurer.