Louisville Conservatory of Music - Crescendo Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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Anita Yager La Grange, Kentucky Dramatic Art Secretary. Drama Club Quarter Notes Staff Crescendo Artist 1926 Class Motto: LISTEN, CONCENTRATE, MASTER Class Colors: WHITE AND GOLD Class Flowers DAISY

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Pauline Summers Louisville, Kentucky Violin Crescendo Staff Town Club Quarter Notes Staff Class Poet Class Executive Committee Theo M. Taylor Louisville, Kentucky Piano Normal Editor. Quarter Notes Class Executive Committee Grace Arnon Thompson Maclisonville, Kentucky Violin Treasurer, Delta Omicron Quarter Notes Staff

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Class History Mildred T HIS is indeed such a big year, and there are so many original activities that it is needless to stress the preceding years of this Class. The first class meeting of this year was held September 6, 1925. There were thirty-two members present, representing the different departments of the school. The first discussion was Class Officers. Diff¬ erent ones were nominated for these offices and later voted on. Catherine Mathis was elected Senior Class President. With Miss Mathis as our President, Mrs. Theo Taylor, Editor-in-Chief of the school paper, and the co-operation of the Senior Class, we set in with the full determination to make each issue of the “Quarter Notes.’’ (our school paper) the best ever published. With the hearty interest of our workers we made the subscriptions far exceed our expectations. With so much accomplished, we wondered why we could not indulge in further activities and see our way out, so someone suggested an “Annual,’’ a peren¬ nial subject, that had heretofore met with an early death. However, this suggestion received the endorse¬ ment and hearty approval of our Class. The Annual Staff was appointed; all members began working and, in a short while, the material was ready for publication. During this time a contest, open to members of the faculty as well as the student-body, was held for the naming of the Annual. The judges decided on the name “Crescendo,’’ which was submitted by Mr. Frank Harmon, who received the prize offered by the Senior Class. Mason Lambert There was also a contest, open to members of the Senior Class for a Class Motto. A prize of a two and one-half dollar gold piece was offered by Madam Sapin. The mottoes submitted were unusually good, but after careful elimination it was decided Myrtle Abnia should receive the prize; the motto being, “Listen, Concen¬ trate, Master,’’ the first letter of each word giving us L. C. M. Due to illness, two members were forced to leave, our class. One being Ollie Hagin and the other Martha Millikan. The entire class feels the loss of these two members but we sincerely trust they will be able to join the class that follows us. We have had our trials as all other Seniors have had. It is needless to recall to you the things we have written on the record of the past, but we feel sure our class has never been surpassed and only hope that each succeeding class will follow in our footsteps and en¬ deavor to make L. C. M. a better Conservatory than it has ever been before. We owe a debt of gratitude to those teachers who have helped us in our climb and who were always ready to hold out a helping hand when we slipped or stum¬ bled. Especially do we thank the Director of the Con¬ servatory, Frederic A. Cowles; the President of the Conservatory, John L. Gruber; our Class Sponsor, Helen McBride, and our Faculty Advisor, Frank Harmon, through whose aid we have now attained this dizzy height from wh : ch we can catch a glimpse of the promised land beyond “Graduation’’.