Kalamazoo College - Boiling Pot Yearbook (Kalamazoo, MI)

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xa Top Bow: Donald Gibbings, Donald Harden, Norman Armstrong, Marvin Mertz, Donald Kiel, lack Thorsberg, -, Robert Anderson, Robert Schwartz, Middle: Margharita Davis, Richard Carrington, David De Vos, Parke Brown, Maurice Nelson, Bruce Bauer, Glen Hulbert, William Glen, Ralph Gillam, Phillip Mange, Marvin Fenian, Director. Bottom: Barbara Gregory, Kathleen Fleming, Carol Kruse, Luann Herndier, Billie DeShane, Mary Kersies, Florence Waterman, Bettye Field. BAND CHEER LEADERS Under the capable direction of Marvin Feman, This YQUVIS Cll99f'l9C1dmq Squad beqgn Wllh elqhl the band has become a larger and better skilled members, but by basketball season its members were groupe Some Ol its Gctivifies included Playing for pep reduced to six. They revised, added, and discarded rallies, football, and basketball games, Bach Festival, musical programs in Chapel, spring concerts, Home- coming, and the May Pete. Something new which was initiated in the band this year was marching with a were underlying changes not seen by the average drum majorette between halves at the football games. Student. This yea, there WGS more bgckinq because. Margharita Davis was drum maiorette. The officers of the band were: president-lack Thorsberg, vice-presif dent-Ralph Gillam, and manager and librarian-Rob ert Anderson. drawn up governing the cheerleading squad. cheers throughout the year. The most notable change was that the girls obtained uniforms. However, there of a pep committee and a faculty advisor. There was more help with equipment, and a constitution was Mary loslin, Ioan Schroeder, lanet Brown, Patricia Voorhees, Frances Pullinni. l3f .'frl'f f'G1lYlff

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v . fm' If 3 W. 1. M. D. RADIO STATION Station W. 1. M. D. was started in March of 1947 by lack Dentler, a 1948 graduate, with his own equipment in his own room and with one partner. From there it moved to the Hoben Hall attic. ln the school year of 1947-48 the station was moved to Iack's new room in Har- mon Hall with more records and a staff of eight. This fall the station was organized with a new transmitter and an amplifier. Later a turntable for electrical transcrip- tions and eight-hundred records were added. There now is a separate room in Harmon Hall for the station. A Board of Directors, which consists of George Ber- ry, Allen 1-larbach, Burton Swan, Albert Vits, Paul Lipschutz, and Donald Kiel, de- termines the policy of the station. The W. 1. M. D. faculty advisor is Mr. Ronald McCreary. A constitution is in the making. The radio staff now consists of thir- ty-five men and women students. The girls have the Trowbridge Hour each eve- ning and help in the afternoon, engineer- ing and doing clerical work. W. I. M. D. is owned and operated by the students of Kalamazoo College as a Campus service.

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CQLLEGE SINGERS Curtain calls, stage makeup and costuming, and orchestral accompani- ment for A Night of Opera took up most of the first semester's activities for the College Singers. Witli the cooperation of the Speech, Drama, Art, and Physical Education Departments, the Music Department presented two short operas-the comic Gilbert and Sullivan Trial by lury and the folk opera, Down ln The Valley , featuring the song of the same name. Under the direc- tion of Mr. Qverley, the evenings entertainment was presented in the Central High School auditorium and received much acclaim. ln conjunction with the Central High School presentation, the Singers gave two preview sketches in chapel and on the radio. Aside from the operas, the College Singers presented several musical programs for chapel, assisted in the Religious Emphasis Week program, and sang over the radio. Added to these are the benediction responses sung by the choir in chapel every morning and the special anthems presented from time to time. The officers for the year were: Robert Cross, Presidentg Elizabeth Qsborn, Vice-Presidentg Barbara Smith, Secretaryg and Don Kent, Treasurer. 102