New England Conservatory of Music - Neume Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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dedication to WILLIAM L. WHITNEY To William Whitney we affectionately dedicate this yearbook, tor his untiring devotion to young singers, and his never-failing sense of humor. . . .

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tlie l Jeume i3oa.rd I vreSenld the nEumE FOR 1944 ' ft published by the Neume Board for the Senior Class of the New England Conservatory of Music Boston, Massachusetts

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This year has been in many ways a challenge to students at the Conservatory, particularly seniors. We have tried to maintain, under trying wartime conditions, the standards and achievement for which the school has always stood. We feel that only as we continue those traditions, which are in these times all but impossible, are we justified in spending time and money preparing ourselves for lives of service in music. It is not difficult to imagine how Conservatory men, now in the service of our country would feel if we did not meet this challenge and keep things running as usual. Nineteen forty-three — forty-four has been a valuable year for us. With a min- imum of resources we have gained orchestral and choral experience. Our few social endeavors have been entirely successful and well attended. The regular concerts and opera school activities, to which seniors have in such large measure contributed, have, as always, been a credit to the Conservatory. We seniors wish to thank the faculty and administration for their interest in us and for making our final year here an altogether enjoyable and profitable one. We shall not forget their generous accord of extra time in aiding student activities and hope they will remember us as an enterprising and industrious class. Finally, we wish to bid farewell to our friends the Juniors and Undergraduates, hoping they will see fit to continue those things which we have started, to profit by our mistakes, and to remember us always as artists and scholars. — 3 —