Leetsdale High School - Leet Yearbook (Leetsdale, PA)

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JUNIOR ORCHESTRA Members VIOLINS CLARINETS Gregor Betz Barbara Crowe Henrietta Burnell Andrew Farkas Phillip Johns Helen Hoskorisin Elsie Kozar Patricia Pierce Marcella O'Lear David Rally TROMBONE Esther Storar Elmer Kaelin CELLO PIANO Adeline Montanile Eleanor Kay Hutchison TRUMPETS Jack P11-kheim COLDUCTOR Gene Sutherland Joe Billy Undercoffler Mr. John Caldwell The group of musicians pictured above are organized for the purpose of preparing the younger students to qualify for positions in the Senior Orchestra. They meet once a week in activity period for practice and are promoted just as soon as the director feels they are capable of carrying on more mature work in music

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VIOLINS Gregor Betz George Kuzma Rudy Lunak David Rally Esther Storar Gene Sutherland Alberta Pirkheim CELLO Adeline Kontanile BASS VIOLIN William Brown FLUTE Jane Thompson FRENCH HORN Mary Karl SENIOR ORCHESTRA Members CLARINETS William Kellinger Walter Lauxgn Doris Trondle TRUMPETS Andrew Kuzma Frank O'Lear Jam s Ponticello TROM ONES Albert Flowers Charles Setar PIANO Millicent Freeman CONDUCTOR John Caldwell This year the senior orchestra rendered a very commendable service to the School Pla 0 y- ing for assemblies and evening entertainments their services were re tl , g a y appreciated by the school. The skill with which they played at the spring concert, on April seventh and at the exhibiti on on May fifth, was noted by all who attended. With graduatlon the orchestra loses many of its finest players: Charles Setar, tromboneg James Ponticello trumpet, Frank O'Lear, trumpetg Walter Lauxen, clarinetg William Kellinger, clarinetg and Andrew Kuzma, trumpet. I The Jazz quintet composed of five senior orchestra members was one f th o e most highly received entertainment features for the assembly programs this year. Its members were Charles Setar t b ' ' I ' ' , rom one, Na ter Lauxen, clarinet, William Brown, bass violing and Millioent Freeman, piano. Mary Jane Solito, a senior, was the silver throated-vocalist.

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GIRL RESERVES Members Officers Alice Breck Betty Boggs Barbara Crowe Mae DeVries June Donlin Millicent Freeman Elsie Graebner Betty Hinds Mary Hopta Catherine Kelly Gertrude Lacher Cecilia Merdes Catherine Merriman Margaret Moskorisin Eileen Noland Margaret Pahach Nellie Peel Frances Ponticello Alberta Pirkheim Charlotte Plunkett Mary Louise Roman Betty Rowe Nevada Rosenberger Josephine Suto Matilda Suto Doris Trondle Esther Undercoffler Ann Veloski Freda Wohlgemuth Ann Scimio Esther Weaver Katherine Walter President ---------- Elsie Graebner Vice President ---- Catherine Kelly Secretary -------- Freda Wohlgemuth Assistant Secretary-Margaret Pahach Treasurer ----- Esther Undercoffler SPOIISOTS Miss Mildred Vargo Miss Barbara Yoakum February 29, 1937, marked the day of the first meeting for thirty six senior high school sponsors girls who were interested in becoming members of the Girl Reserves. The first were Miss Marjorie Smiley and Miss Rose Demestichas, whose duties were transferred later in the year to Liss Jane Anderson. Officers selected were Betty Springer, Presidentg Undercoffler, Vice Presidentg and Freda Wohlgemuth, Secretary. As established Esther in the constitution, the club took the name of the Leetsdale Girls'Leaders Club until the YWCA found it advisable to recognize it as a Girl Reserves Club. This year recognition services were performed by the Sewickley club on the fourth of April when the girls officially became members of the Girl Reserves. Many worthy projects were carried out by the clubg it sponsored and prepared the football banquet held December sixteenth in honor of twenty-eight football men and cheerleaders. Guest speakers at the banquet were Edward Baker, of Carnegie Tech, and John Michelosen, Don Hensley, and George Delich of the University of Pittsburgh. Several socials, one featuring a WPA orchestra and held in honor of the basketball team March fifteenth, were also sponsored. An assembly and club party completed the activities of the club for the year.