North Quincy High School - Manet Yearbook (North Quincy, MA)

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DRUM MAJ ORS REMEMBER those smart looking girls in front of the Band at foot- ball games doing the most amazing things with their batons? Remember! who could forget those snappy girls? The competition for the coveted posi- tions was keen-twelve girls for five vacancies. Perhaps you don't realize that the drum majors do more than appear at football games. They went to the festivals and gave a novelty number in the Band concert. In order to perpetuate this corps of drum majors, a class was started at school With 30 members. The future looks very bright for the peppy group of girls who lend such color to the band. Page Q3

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l BAND AS LITTLE Johnny Appleseed, the newest little seventh grader at North, comes out of the school door one afternoon, he is confronted by an astounding spectacle. Naturally he stops to look, for this will be a new sight to write about in his shiny new diary. Row upon row of marching red and white uniforms confront him, each holding in its upraised arms an instrument. No, it's not tl1e Good Humor men ringing their bells-it's North's band rehearsing its marching and playing. Johnny gazes in awe and blissful thoughts fill his mind of the day when he too will be marching at football games, playing at basket- ball games, perhaps playing a solo at the excellent concert the Band gives every year, and even better yet-being a member of the band when, under Bliss Ruth Chrisman, its director, it wins its A rating at the State and New England Music Festivals. A sudden rush and tumble awakes Johnny from his dream and informs him that rehearsal is over. Picking up his nice, easy-reading books, Johnny Comes Blarching Home Again and greets his mother with, lla, kin I play a instrument in the Page QQ band? even after all his English lessons. To all you other Johnny Appleseeds, practise hard and some day you will be proud to say that you are a member of the North Quincy High School Band. ORCHESTRA 'ITHIYRSDAY night is orchestra night at North. In -L02 under the direction of Bliss Ruth Christman, the orchestra spends long hours evolv- ing the tuneful pieces which we less talented scholars hear at assemblies and other gatherings. There are certain times in the year, however, when the regular Thursday night practice periods expand. The orchestra, moved by a natural love of music and an unnatural love of work, may be heard any day in the week perfecting pieces for the State and New England Blusic Festivals. The time seems not to have been spent in vain for North has always received a high rating at these festivals. Hlany hours are also spent with the Glee Club in producing North's an- nual musical presentation. This year the production was in the form of a cantata Joan of Arc, a new under- taking for North, and one well re- ceived.

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STRING ENSEM BLE LESTIOX: YYhat music organiza- tion has played for many school and outside activities including both junior and senior high schools? Ans- wer: The string ensemble. Leave several stringed instruments including violins, violas, and 'cellos with some of us and you might wonder what animals have been let out of the zoo. But take those same instruments and put them into the hands of eleven junior girls and put Bliss Beesly at the head and you have harmony pleasing to the ear. A detailed list of the times this ensemble has played would include Senior Class Play, Christmas program, Girls' Club Christmas as- sembly and other junior and senior high assemblies. Outside of school they have played for the Chamber of Commerce, Parent-Teachers' Associa- tions, and Bethany Congregational Church. Those of us who cannot play music can at least appreciate it when played by this group. GIRLS' CLUB ELYERY senior girl maybe a member of the Girls' Club at Xorth. This is a sort of a tradition. Each year an observer new to the school might well Page Q4 think he had wandered into a lunatic asylum by mistake as he sees girls in every conceivable queer looking out- fit and usually carrying dolls, wan- dering about the building. This, fortunately, occurs only on one day a year and is the day on which the eleventh grade girls are initiated as members. The Girls, Club donates its services in preparing Christmas and Thanksgiving Baskets which are given to the poor at these two holidays. The girls also hold roller-skating parties at which most of the members skate sitting down. Xo, itls not a new method which they have originated, but merely the result of the wheels on the skates being so slippery, Cat least that's their excusej. The semi-formal dance held every year is the high-light of the year and more than one lan- guishing female girds on her armor Tickets, please!