Kennard School - Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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The School Orchestra School orchestras in public schools were started about 1910. The Kennard School has had a school orchestra since 1922 and Miss Marguerite Grace has had charge of it during all of that time. Practically all of the pupils who make up the orchestra have had no other instruction in music, except the piano, than that received in the beginning classes before they were permitted to play in the orchestra. Our orchestra has always been limited to such instruments as the violin, drums, clarinet, bells, saxophone and piano. We are looking forward to the time when we may have a cello, viola, oboe or flute. Ear tests and physical adaptability have to be considered. Our objective is not to make finished musicians but to give the child the character and citizenship education that comes through musical appreciation. Music is the one subject taught in the schools that develops taste and appreciation for the beautiful. l V l Marguerite Grace, Director V1oL1N PIANO TRUMPET Arthur Brownlie Doris Cown Clarence Stausebach Marilyn Horn Marjorie Lugenbeel Howard Heald Jane Clare Zigrang SAXOPHONE William Kretschmar Kenneth Buchert Gene O'Brien DRUMS Harry Shannon Walwin Dosche BELLS Ruth L. Walser Billy Daily Jane Mackle Lloyd Steinmeyer 15

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The Kindergarten Orchestra The Kindergarten orchestra provides a medium through which the child may express himself and through which he may ultimately be made conscious of music as something which plays an important part in life. At first, just as a phase of rhythmic response and training, then a sensing of different rhythms, and later the different tempos sug- gested by the different types of music, the Kindergarten orchestra provides a real and delightful approach to music appreciation, as well as a means of arousing an interest in instrumental music. Such instruments as the triangle, toy drum, sand-paper blocks, bells, and other primitive tone producing instruments are used as an accompaniment to simple rhythmic compositions played upon the piano. All of the Kindergarten children receive this training, taking turns at playing various instruments. RHYTHM BAND Kathryn Abele Robert Novak Barbara Emge James Cassidy Martha Polizzi Shirley Fox Gerald Cuquet Betty Mae Rhodes David Heck Clifford Dye William Roedel Rosemarie Hollenbeck William Emerson Dorothy Thompson Richard Mahan Leonard Erutti Herbert Topp James Mensie John Foyt Patricia Trapp Harold Mester Barbara Groteke Rose Marie Visconti Jack Miller Ben Hartley, Jr. Evelyn Wehmeyer Joan Monken Joy Haug Margaret Worth Dorothy Ann Moss Mabel Claire Hopewell Albert Beinke Evelyn Prodolliet Carl Laemmli Marjorie Bensinger Robert Rhodes Robert Myers Jennie Capobianco Nelda Spencer Ralph Conner 14

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The School Boy Patrol Excerpt of a letter written by Hon. Jas. J. Fitzgerald, President of the Board of Education to Mr. P. F. Drury, Director of Safety, Automobile Club of Mis- souri, October 24, 1935: The general public, possibly, are not aware of the fact that on ac- count of a shortage of man power, the Police Department was com- pelled to place the men who guarded our school crossings in other lines of dutyg but the safety of the children of Saint Louis has not suffered, thanks to this wonderful group of boys you have banded together under the name of the School Boy Patrol. The School Boy Patrol has become the most effective safety pro- gram in our city through which the individual's promotion of street safety and regard for the rights of others is converted into a moral and civic obligation. Its original objectives have been reached. It has proven that street safety can be taught. Its record is an achievement of the elemen- tary schools which presents a challenge to all who are sincerely interested in the further elimination of traffic accidents. 4 1 1 V , J CAPTAIN, Angelo Rolfi FIRST LIEUTENANT, Lloyd Steinmeyer SECOND LIEUTENANT, Vernon Erickson Arthur Brownlie William Neumann John Presswheat Clifford Dameron Gene O'Brien Richard Schick Anton Jost Eugene Potucek Clarence Stausebach Herbert Pyne 16