Lake Benton High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Lake Benton, MN)

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Triple Trio The two Girls' Triple Trios comprise the Girls' Glee Club along with Arlene Hanson and Barbara Steinhoff. The choral groups are not an end in themselvesg choir members are to be found in considerable strength in the other musical or- ganizations in the community and various surrounding colleges There is no truer truth obtainable by man than comes of music.--Robert Browning. Girls' Triple Trio members above are: Virginia Larson, Gayle Trautman, Sylvia Verschberger, lone Gruoich, Sharron Kelly, Eunice Johnson, Eyvonne Johannsen, Colleen Evans, Janice Bebensee. Girls' Triple Trio members below are: Helen Gehrts, Enid Olson, Loralee Mathison, Joan Mathison, Faye Tellinghuisen, Romelle Trade, Miriam Luschen, Phyllis Hanson, Faye Sears, Triple Trio

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High School Mixed Choir Sixty young people with a zest for singing--that is the Lake Benton High School Mixed Choir. They are young ladies and men who are willing to acheive a high standard of choral excellence. Choir activities include performances at school and com unity functions with the Christmas concert as one of their highlights of especial beauty and inspiration. The Junior High Choir and Grade Choir also played a substantial part in the yuletide concert centralized around the musical selection, WSilent Nightn. The past years the High School Mixed Choir along with the vocal en- sembles and soloists have been continuously participating in the annual re- gional-state music contests receiving ratings of A's and B's. Invited as a solo choir to attend the Music Festivals at both Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota and St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, the High School Mixed Choir elected the St. Olaf College invitation. Officers of the choir are elected each fall to serve for the ensuing years Curtis Meyer, Presidentg Richard Quarton, Vice-Presidentg Marlys Rochel, Sec- retary, Byrl Koster, Treasurer, and Lloyd Thorson, student council represent- ative. The director of all high school choral groups is Miss Phyllis Umland. Junior High Choir J lui 1m - fr-fi, - -

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G Nu' Boys' Cctette Ranking high among the musical organization of Bobcatdom are the Girls' Triple Trios and Boys' Octettes. These vocal ensembles, selected from the personnel of the High School Mixed Choir, furnish program music, for various school and community functions too. The schedule of rehearsals means hard work and sacrifice, but the members feel it is worth it, Membership in the organization and the satisfaction derived from a job well done more than repay them. The two Boys' Octettes constitute the Boys Glee Club along with Dale Koster and James Koster. Boys' Octette members above are: row l: Robert Miller, Allen Koehne, Richard Hurd, Jerry Van Eechout. Row 2: Leon Knutso Lloyd Thorson, Walter Soderlind, and Richard Quarton. Boys' Octette members below are: row 1: Barry Trautman, Jacland Brune, Del Erickson, Row 2: Robert Mathews, James Lage, Curtis Meyer, Donald Sik. Boys' Octette I1