Marine City High School - Mariner Yearbook (Marine City, MI)

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CHORUS Front Row j James Cordon, Milton Schutt, Charles Westrick, Orville Kruschwitz, John Barber, Wallace Blake, Ray Shackett, Ervin LaBuhn, Fred Springbom, Loren Feagan, Robert Johns Second Row: Donna Baker, Paulla Brewer, Helen McCarron, June Recor, Jeanette Kaufman, Gloria Cooper, Marian Densmore, Miss Johnson, Ruth Eberhardt, Virginia Dunklin, Mary Lou Fast, Rosemary Walton, Donna Schutt, Gloria Garlock Third Row: Laurel Antons, Eleanor Fast, Dorothy Fritz, Marian Ruemanapp, Christine Ruemanapp, Eve lyn Roehring, Shirley Wood, Marielle Bridges, Mary Smith, Arlyne HoshAl, Donna Hampe, Jeanette Schneider, Shirley Jacobs, Helen Tripp, Betty Christy, Virginia Horn, Wilma Phillips, Corrine Frothingham Fourth Row: Sidney Duddy, Floyd Lyons, Donald Bassett, William Lutz, Howard Lozon, David Barringer, Gerald McKellar, Arthur Tesch, Maurice Liebaert, Fred Meyer, Frank Miller, William Basney, William Allen The sixty voices of the Marine City High School Glee Club, under the able musical leadership of Miss Ardath Johnson, have a full schedule this yea r. The outstanding event is the Voice Festival when all the high school Glee Clubs of St. Clair County combine under the direction of a well known musician. They were directed by Hardin van Deursen of the University of Michigan on April 23 at Port Huron. During the year recordings were made; a Christmas Concert was presented for the Tuesday Musicals, special numbers and choral benedictions were given for the school Lenten Services; and exchange programs were held at other schools. Members of the Glee Club look forward to the annual spring concert. May 22 in the Ward-Cottrell Gymnasium. 28

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SPEECH Front Row: Helen McCarron, Scott Elder, James Corden, Fred Springbom, Fred Meyer Second Rowj Robert Bean, Mr, Beauchamp, David Barringer Marine High must be blessed with the gift of gab , for there have been few speech contests in our district that have not found Marine High a fighting contestant. Our representatives were not content to merely participate, but they also walked away almost every time with a sizeable portion of the bacon, A trip through our halls and library would amply prove that in speech activities. Marine High has always rated high. In the Michigan High School Forensic League contests this year. Marine High won three of her four debates winning from Capac. St. Clair Shores, and Romeo, and losing one to Bloomfield Hills. The question was Resolved that the power of the Federal Government should be decreased. The boys that brought the 1941 debate plaque, an award from the University of Michigan to the school, were Scott Elder, Fred Springbom, and James Corden. The second semester forensic contests found Marine ably represented by James Corden with his Oration, One Nation Indivisible , Robert Bean and Fred Meyer in Extemporaneous Speech, and David Barringer and Robert Bean in Dramatic Reading. Robert captured first honors in extemporaneous speakingf and several weeks later took second place in the District Contest. Debating, oratory, extemporaneous speech and dramatic reading were under the direction of Mr. Beauchamp. 27

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ORCHESTRA Front Row: Charlotte Terbush, Mary Smith, Marielle Bridges, Miss Johnson, Ruth Eberhardt, William Cramer Second Row: Jack Hillier, Edward Fritz, Sidney Duddy, William Vallier, Charles Westrick, Bert Hillier Our orchestra, though small, is a definite functioning unit of the High School and plays several times throughout the year. Members of the brass section made up a German Band on the spur of the moment for the big Homecoming Pep Meeting in the fall, and they didn t sound half bad! Also, at the Christmas Concert given by the Music Department for the Tuesday Musicale, December 18, the orchestra played carols as an instrument- al prelude to the choral part of the program. The main feature of the orchestral year is the Orchestra Festival in which eight schools of the county take part. This year Yale was host to the visiting orchestras with Leo Lerake of Wayne University as guest conductor. Bert Hillier represented Marine City by playing a special selection for the program, Elegie , by Alec Templeton. May 22 marked the final appearance of the orchestra when it participated in the annual Spring Concert, sharing the program with the High School Mixed Chorus. Some of the numbers the orchestra has worked on are Bouree , Bach, Moment Musical , Schubert, Hungarian Dance Number 5 , Brahms, Huldi- gungsmarch , Grieg. 29