Kent State High School - Statesman Yearbook (Kent, OH)

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THE STATESMAN Boys' Glee Club This was the first year for a boys' glee club since 1933 but it has proven itself worthwhile under the direction of Miss Ora Belle Bachman. The club had but one program which was with the girls' glee club at Christmas time. This program was highly successful. The boys featured two numbers, Noel and All Hail This Day of Days. The members of the club are as follows: Vernon Beal, Charles Fisher, Gordon Hostettler, Bill Carpender, lay Thomason, Chip YXf'est, Courtland Shellhorn, Oliver Kasner, Frank Moore, john Duke, Robert Lowther, John Flynn, Bob Curtiss, Earl Wise, Bob Dumm, Bill Palmer, Jack Taylor, Bill Diltz, and Bill Burrell. No officers were elected by the club as their business did not warrant them. Any boys interested in glee club work that could pass a simple voice test given at first of the year were eligible for membership O PAGE 48

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THE STATESMAN Orchestra At the beginning of the year, Mr. Roy Metcalf began his an- nual work of organizing the Kent State high orchestra for the benefit of all students interested in music. There were few ex- perienced players from which to build an orchestra. By the end of the year Kent State boasts of a working orchestra. During the year, Mr. Paul Brake gave special lessons to student material interested in belonging to the orchestra. After Christ- mas vacation, the students who had been taking lessons entered the orchestra, thus making a larger organization. Concerts have been given at various times through-out the year by the orchestra at assemblies. At the time of the flood, they played for assemblies for the Red Cross, the money being turned over for relief in the stricken areas. Members of the orchestra include, first violins, Roger Cunn- ingham, Wanda Price, Ralph Fink, Bill Kuss, Bill Carpender, and Theresa Oberlanber. Second violin players are Dorothy Hollist- er, Louise Curfman, and Dominica Basil. Norma Oviatt and Betty McKibben play the bass viola and cello respectively. Clar- inet players are Bill Fitzpatrick and Betty Bishop. The flute and bass cello are played by Shirley Dobbs and Betty Miller. Saxaph- one and trombone are played by Glen Wilcox and Robert Hoy. Horns are played by Doris King and George Pakeg and trumpets by james Vasil and Edwin Hoyt. PAGE 47

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THE STATESMAN Senior Girlsl Glee Club Senior girls' glee club at Kent State high has done admir- able work this year by participating in several successful concerts. The one to be remembered the longest, was the Christmas time program in which a number of musical organizations had a part. Among them were the elementary grades music classes, the Junior and Senior clubs, the boys' organization, and the Junior high glee club. A very lovely part of the program, in keeping with the Christ' mas spirit, was a tableaux of the celebration of Christmas in other countries. While these were being presented, carols were heard in the distance to add a desired effect to the setting. As the curtain closed on the last scene, the strains of the well known hymn Oh Come All Ye Faithful was heard and the girls in the several glee clubs marched slowly down the aisle. The girls, clad in white and carrying red candles, appropriately expressed the Christmas spirit. In addition to this program, several shorter ones have been presented in assemblies The object of the glee clubs is to cultivate a better understand' ing of worth while music and to appreciate it. The songs sung in the meetings are semi-classical and folk songs. Qflicers in the Senior glee club are Betty Miller, presidentg Theresa Oberlander, vice-president, Martha Rufener, secretary- treasurerg lane Maxwell, librarian. The directer is Miss Bachman. PAGE 49