Kenmore High School - Kenmore Eighty Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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m1l1 !frH5! H ma Orch estra Orchestra? Did you say Orchestra? Well even if you did have to get out a search warrant to find it-its smallness as far as numbers went, was no criterion by which to judge. for the volumes of soulful GJ melodies which floated baleony- ward in the Auditorium left no question whatever as to the presence nf said Orchestra. The organization was never formally named. lt simply progressed without ax name: just Ht,I'C'llCSll 2lu7lll2lf.lS all! Whafs in a name. anyhow? Yve started in, full force-fwlmt you might call a Full House, with the follow- ing line-up-Violins: tplease notice. we didn't say Yiolinistsj lvalter lvzird, Elizabeth llenderlong and G. Gres-noe. Cornets: llagans, Heinibaugh, Swords and Lake. 'l'wo of these grew weary with well doing and fell by the wayside, leaving Hagans and Heimbaugh to toot 'their own horns. Broses on drums. seini-occasionally. but we soon got to playing musie that John couldn't begin to play twithout his drumsj so piece by piece John dropped out and wc were left drum-less. Piano: Honors divided between Yergil Kime and Kathleen Boyd. eaeh an artist of mention. Last, but not least. we mention our worthy directoress, Miss Parmelee. The trials she has borne with us would place her in line for ye golden llarpe'-second only to one who drives the I'nix'ersal car. l As we go to press. we chronielc the one and only Lso farj appearance of the Orchestra at Assembly one memorable day in Jamiary. The audience bore with us through one and a half num,bers, and on the last half the audience was making a dignified but hasty exit, or there might have been more to relate. SeriouslyVthough, all looks as if we might have a pretty good Orchestra at some future date-let us hope not too future. 51

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Mil f i U llllm Debating in K. H. S. The high sehool period is a eritieal one in the development of the tendency to debate. Follow any healthy-inindeml youth through a day's activities and you will be surprised at the number of times his ideas, convictions and beliefs come into ennfliet with those of other people. You cannot help but admire the way he stands by his guns in these conflicts. He is eager not only to defend but also to force others to accept. as their own his ideas, convictions and beliefs. Unfortunately, however, he is not always wise in what he thinks and in what he would have others think and do. He needs to be taught how to study a problem in a scientific way, to draw proper conclusions, and to suspend his judgement. He must learn the value of diseussion as a means for enlarging knowledge and clearing vision. ' Sueh are the needs whieh high sebools are endeavoring to meet through high school debating societies, through classroom work, andithrough inter-high school debating. Realizing the opportunity and iinportanee of this field of high sehool activity, an effort is being made to arouse an interest in debating in Kenmore High School. Little has been done in the way of debates with other high schools. The foundation has been laid, however, for some very etfeetive work in this line for the coming year. There have been numerous debates in the English Classes and one public debate in the Chapel between the Sophomore team and the Junior and Senior team on the question, Resolved that the High School should be run six days per week. The Affirmative side of the question, championed by the Soph- oniores, won the decision. Mr. Harkins has conducted a class in public speaking during the second se- mester in Room 32. The growth of lileeker, Prentiss and Mintz in argumentative and oratorieal ability has been apparent. to the occupants of Room 33 during their period of practice. Mintz's fiery periods, upholding government ownership of railroads eame rolling through the door and booming down the corridors. There is every reason that K. H. S. will win laurcls in the forensic arena as she has done on the gymnasium floor. 53