North Side High School - Legend Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Music Department expands; more Nan McBride, a feature twirler, takes twirling at football and basketball games in stride. Diligence and long hours are necessary to present a concert, as the wind and string sections of the orchestra prove. Janet Bossard, Rae Doenges, Jimmy Schaeffer and Jane Collens make up one of Mr. Roderick Gerrard ' s several guitar classes. These classes offer availability of the Music Department to students not enrolled in it. Directing the band and sometimes the orchestra takes much of Mr. Barry Ashton ' s time. In addition he also coordinates the Arrowettes and twirlers with the band. 24 Music

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It ' s a fight! No, Mr. James Purkhiser just tells his beginning students that making a scene look real is part of acting. Renovation caused cancellation of Senior Play The drama classes innovated and revised schedules as they adjusted to reconstruction problems. Renova- tion of the stage caused cancellation of the Senior play. However, they worked toward the time in the second semester when facilities were again available and they could use the stage for one play and Varsity Varieties. Beginning and advanced drama classes practiced doing pantomimes and plays, emphasizing words and movements. Drama III students present a reader ' s theatre for their classmates. Acting out a scene. Drama II students tr ' improvising after the manner of Dark of the Moon. Art 23

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vocal divisions more classes The Troubadours practice for coming concerts. Once the smallest group in the department, it has been divided into several smallergroups. Mike Folk, Byron Black, Larry Stacy, and Tim Mills comprise the color guard. They appear at football and basketball games. Because the Senior Play was can- celled, seniors instead attended the Senior Cabaret presented December 3 by the Music Department. Cabaret involved most of the 450 members of the vocal and instrumental sec- tions. Other concerts included a school as- sembly on December 23, and three public concerts: one in February and two in May. Because of the great number of singers, A Cappella was divided into Troubadours, the folk group, Madrigals, and girls ' ensemble. The instrumental groups played outside of the Fort Wayne area and for Indiana University Regional Campus. Involved in the schedule was a band trip after their annual candy sale and fish fry dinners in October, January, and May. During the football season, the group sold red and white cushions called swingers. The instrumental groups divided during the basketball season and formed the Pep Band, which attend- ed most of the games and helped bring out the North Side Redskin spirit. Music 25