Myrtle Point High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Myrtle Point, OR)

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Music, Art Provide Opportunity For A DAB OF PAINT, a shiny instrument, and a human voice are all related when they are used as tools to build beauty and express emotions. The FINE ARTS section of MPHS’s curriculum included art, band, and chorus which were headed by RICHARD PAYNE, LES SIMONS, and ROSEMARY KRONQUIST. As a whole, the Fine Arts program maintained a three-fold goal: to enrich every phase of a student’s education, to provide for the expression of emotions, and to serve as a medium for narrowing the gap between school and community. The 81-piece SENIOR BAND, included grades 10, 11, and 12, and the 38-piece FRESHMEN BAND, for first year high school students, participated in football season marching, concerts, and musical contests. Yearly the bands are ‘represented at the Southwestern Oregon Music Festival and the regional Solo and Ensemble contest. FORTY FOUR girls participated in the girls’ chorus this year, and eleven boys were in boys’ chorus. Among vocal events of the year were a Thanksgiving assembly in which the choruses were featured, the PTSO Christmas Program, and a school assembly in the Spring. Actual experience in the many phases of art and sculpture was gained by the 49 students enrolled in RICHARD PAYNE’S art I and art II classes. In first year art, students learned basic techniques of drawings, water painting, lettering and clay sculpture. On the other hand, the art II course was designed to give the student more liberty in expressing himself. GARY POSTE, senior art student, str; BAND DIRECTOR, Les Simons completed his tenth year at Myrtle Point. Simons has developed an extensive instrumental program in the districr to develop his painting in art II class.