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

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Beethoven standing in the hall as our class guardion-ongel surely knows what the future holds for this year ' s Senior closs. But the rest of us ore no immortals and it is anybody ' s guess what will really happen, but let ' s c ive it a try anyway. Next year ' s Senior class must really be on its toes, for our own Edna Mayer has done nothing less than will one million dollars to it. (Don ' t ask us where she plans to get the million) The question is, is she one of those who con live a double li ' e by having a career and keeping the home fires burning? We expect to see her in a cotton apron every morning and donning her mauve ' every evening to sing Lord Randall before an admiring audience of former English Lit. students, Happy days! Annie Gulecas tells us she is willing her Beethoven Sonatas to anyone in next year ' s Senior Class for what they ' re worth. Just how are you going to take that Guordian, old dear? Is she referring to the oppearance or the contents? In any case there are some of us who wish we were even able to play a Beethoven Sonato. N.E.C. has o gift of a little green bottle for reeds, coming to it. Guess who? Beth Goober of course, now America ' s first hot oboe player. You will be able to hear her hitting it high on the Blue Network soon. Emma Jane West Ito be organist at Westminster Abbey and Loew s Orpheum on alternate weeks) says she wills her lucky handkerchief (what there is left of it) to sweat-out a recital. The recipient is Carr Organ Society. We at last have a solution to the Practice Room Problem. Donald Steele is leaving a duplicate key to Room 205 for B. Benedict ' s exclusive use. (Those in the class of ' 48 see Betty now. First come first served.) Here is the type of weekend you ve been waiting for. From Olivia Reeves to Ann Dilavore go weekends spent with Bach chorales and psychological research. We understand that Olivia is now top candidate for the No. 1 Konsciencious Kid of 1947. (But we still doubt that week-end story.) Kay Bailey is leaving Vive la France in all its glories to Lucy Dugas. Kay is now with the Met, hashing over the good old days with Steber. (We understand that Eleanor too, had trouble deciding how to use the ougmented 6th chord.) Lois Shaefer has a sympathetic ear to lend to next year s Counterpoint III class. She has a worried look going to waste. Line forms on the right. Lois and Janet H. are on a nation wide tour and just performed The Gypsy and the Bird for the five-hundredth time by request. They are just realizing the horrors of being a musical success and are both taking secretarial courses like mad. Eunice Fitton is leaving her reading of tenor parts ' to Catherine Ameer. (Mr. Findlay needs tenors for next yeor ' s chorus, Catherine.) As for Eunice, she is now firing the students of Higginsville H. S. with enthusiasm tor counterpoint. In fact Mrs. Mason, Mr. McKinley, and Mr. Smith have sent a telegram asking how she does it. Catherine, you have something else coming to you, you popular gal. It will be a sacrifice but at last Pris Dorr is giving up her private lessons with Mr. W. S. Smith. Study hard! And speaking of our class president, mercy, have you been in Filene ' s basement lately? It is still a wedding a week, only this time she is selling bridesmaids dresses instead of buying them. Just ask (or the Bridal Consultant! Poor Dick Webber is going to have something to live up to next year. He has been willed Arvid Anderson ' s part of Dr. Faustus from the play by that name. Arvid is doing something very original. He has founded The Anderson How-not-to-play method, with Dick Hyatt as his principal exponent. The only trouble is, it gets them into bad habits and they have to keep taking lessons to remind themselves of the right way. We ' re just hoping and praying that Cookie is going to leave that object that goes by the usual name of ' hat to someone. Sula Mekelatos seems a likely prospect. It is good for several purposes in- cluding protection against rain, to keep sun out of the left eye, for concealment of Identity before this or that class and as a friendly greeting to one s friends. Don ' t be alarmed if you are all choked up most of next year, or if you can ' t see very far in front of you. It s just that old cloud of dust that Ann V. has at last shaken off. She has left it to the person who feels he needs assistance in getting to class on time. While trying to shake off that frenzied look which attached Itself to her, she is competing with Evelyn in which they will both ploy Bach-Gounod ' s Ave Maria on a glass violin. Betty Kay is now helping Mr. Findlay prepare a concert of all Ervln Henning ' s works, assisted by Phyllis Knox, Ruth Baker, Nlcoletta Pavekos and Rose Lenclcki. These four will play Ervin ' s composition for four left hands. Clarence Noyes will be official page-turner and expects to use roller skates to get from one piano to the other. Gloria Lopardo wills her fidelity to anyone who Is in her position next year. Best wishes, Gloria! From Moscow we have the news that Miss Lokovltch (Betty Locke to you) has established a thriving musical centre In her community. One of her added attractions each year is an annual lecture by Matilda Protano on Stravinsky ' s ' Les Noces Mary Burns finally got herself a portable Hammond Organ. She and Shirley Smith are now touring South Africa, in an attempt to create an Interest in Orlando Lasso among the natives. Mary wills that super English notebook to Muriel Hebert. Janet Hayes Is willing her one-hundred or so offices to Amelia Altamarl just in case Amelia has time on her hands in her Senior year. (Janet says this is guaranteed to solve the problem.) Mary Grasso, Nina Volschak and Joy Wlngett have established the Junior New England Conservatory right across the street. The trouble is, they are proving to be stiff competition for our Alma Mater. Even Curtis IS getting worried. Yours for another glance in the tea-leaves, THE NEUME BOARD. — 19 —

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Another event of ' 44 was the organization of that tiny but important unit, the Carr Organ Society. It certainly deserves honorable mention. You plucky Juniors didn ' t let a thing go unnoticed. You saw to it that graduation was duly attended, and even ushered in pretty white dresses. Margaret Bromley and Ann Gulecas looked particularly nice ushering the class down the aisle. No sooner had the strains of the graduation march died away than the Juniors gathered with a squeal of delight and proclaimed, ' Now we are seniors. Seniors, SENIORS! ' Abruptly the year ended. Then once again the autumnal breezes swept into the foyer proclaiming a new year — the last and best year, 1945-46. It was a magnificent year. From the second Street Fair so ably organized by the Senior Class president, Priscilla Dorr, through the Advanced Students ' Recitals and the second Cabaret Dance, everyone had a glorious time. Of course, I noticed a good many bags under the eyes, for 1946 was a year of real hard work. How well I remember the Senior School Music students with their inevitable practice teaching and laborious scores to hand in to Mr. Findlay. YMtf ill The uproarious Senior Enslish Class laughed from September to June while M ' . Furness corned us from Chaucer to Job without batting an eye. ' Mr. B. nearly split his sides remembering how C. J. F. stalked the room with bulging eyes and a terrifying grimace making Caliban almost too real. Three new clubs were founded, the O.C.F. (Organization of Clubs and Fraternities), the Commuters ' Club, and the Veterans ' Club. For now we had come through the terrible years of war and thousands of veterans returned and stormed our gates. How odd, thought Mr. B., it is to see the male element appear again. Once more he could throw his shoulders back with pride and say, Why, yes, the orchestra is giving a hum-dinger of a concert this Fall. Sounds good, too. No one was prouder than those two intrepid artistes (and nuts) Dzlob and Very. All of the Seniors were madly working over Senior recitals — Kay Bailey ran circles around Mr. Beethoven looking for a male accompanist, and Cookie attacked the subject of Polish music. Ah, thought Mr. B., here is an item of interest. Mr. Holmes was installed as the Dean and as Vet- erans ' Counsellor. Why, here ' s Edna Mayer getting her Senior recital program checked. Ml. B. came to pages outlined with stars — the Strauss Ball, the Senior Dance; the minstrel show; Class Day, so ably produced and directed by Dick Hyatt; N.E.C. night at Pops — and before you could believe it, it was the day of graduation. Well, they ' ll soon be graduated, remarked Beethoven. Even as he spoke, a scene flashed across the page before him. Row upon row of dignified faculty — Now the black-robed Seniors marching in swaying lines — The speaker — the quiet and solemn air over everything — the black figures filing up onto the platform. A voice saying, Anderson, Bailey, Burns, on and on and on — Very, West, Wingett. Slowly Mr. Beethoven shut the ledger. Well, that ' s the end of that, cried the Seniors. No, whispered Mr. Beethoven excitedly in their ears, it ' s only fhe great beginning! — 18 —

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junior C ia56 O i iceri President Vice President AMELIA ALTAMARI JULYANN HARTWELL Treasurer Secretary CATHERINE AMEER DOROTHY HAVENER Student Council Representative HELEN LUCAS Active Members: Beth Goober, President; Char- lotte Goodnnan, Vice President; Regina Klopstock, Recording Secretary; Dorothy Elkind, Corresponding Secretary; Toba Schwartz. Treasurer. Jeanette Kauf- man, Estaire Koplin, Eileen Cohen, Natalie Kramer, Rebecca Shrieberg, Barbara Schwartzman.. Barbara Rodman, Barbara Grand. The Elson Club, named for one of the most dis- tinguished members, Louis C. Elson. was founded in 1920 to further the cnuse of Music. In accordance with this AIM, the club presents a concert each Spring, award; a scholarship to one of its members and gives several musicriles and parties. — 20 —