Northern High School - Noroscope Yearbook (Flint, MI)

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1 F w X, Y J U . 3' , Q. . my n WJ Band-Representing the school in both marching band and concert band, they played on numerous occasions. Bottom row, leit to right: Robert Farmer, Phillip Mangiaracina, Donald Larson, Elra Aldridge, Monroe Karrer, Edgar Lewis, Bob Conklin, Dick Davis and Wallace Gilmour, second row, James Wedding, Ernestine Borey, Peter Mangiaracina, Iack Taylor, John Turner, Lee Buck, Robert Ketrow, Sylvia Bateman, Mero Benes, Tom Bartosik, Willard Shaw and lack Chedister, top row, Harold Sack, Robert Colgan, Donald Miller, l:Illis Paquette, Herbert Gezster, D. V. Rice, Milton Hoedel, Dwight Holman, Richard Bailey, Robert Perkins, Bob Miller, Lew Stein, Edward Bent- ley, Bill Benincasa, Wesley Rice, Homer Arsenault and Carl Shaw. Band Plays at All Home Basketball, Football Games LTHOUGH band activities were divided between a marching band and the con- cert band many students par- ticipated in both. The march- ing band and concert band pro- vided music for all home loot- ball and basketball games as Well as parades, The concert band entertained for various organizations around Flint. The band also appeared in the General Motors Parade of Progress, the Armistice Day pa- rade and later tor the service held in the l. M. A. auditorium and Grand Blanc homecoming game. Robert Farmer and Phillip Mangiaracina, members of the two bands, were selected to play in the all-state band which convened at Detroit during the National Music Supervision Conference. Orchestra Entertains at All School Functions HE all-city orchestra concert, combining the music groups of Northern and Central, high- lighted the orchestra activity ot the year. The all-city concert was held under the baton of Thor lohnson conductor ol the Little Symphony orchestra ol Ann Arbor. The orchestra also supplied the music tor the senior play, senior honor night, and the ac- companiments for Northern's opera The Gondoliersu. Members also journeyed to Ann Arbor to participate in the annual Michigan High School Music Festival. Q Orchestra-They played at school musical aitairs and in city-wide concerts Bottom row, Richard Carr, Frances Skrzela, Bett Everett, Darold Holzworth, Mervin Whitcomb, Iames Hiscock, Sam Mangiaracinag second row, Frances Eckleberry, Mary Buckhalter, lclyron Le Galley, Lawrence Mills, Betty Smurthwaite, Robert Farmer, Imogene Blystone, Frances McCutcheon, Geneva Stottlemeyer, Edgar Lewis, Bruce Iohnson, Lyle Gardner, Sara Smith and Kenneth Metcalf, top row, Marian Harburn and Georgiana Winters. Noroscope pQge27

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' n r.,n,, ,N , , . Amicue Ludorum. Group I-They are enthusiastic girls' sports boosters. Bottom row, left to right: Patricia Shepherd, Emma Miller, Gwendolyn Smith, Patti Van Doran, Elaine Tippett, Elaine Sabel, Evelyn Bennette, Bertha Gloverp second row, Virginia Castle, Margaret Zembo, Virginia Leister, Virginia Pierce, Virginia Keillor, Ruth Van Dyke, Phyllis Downer, Ella Lehr, Agnes Cisowski, third row, Wanda Mouser, Alice Millhouse, Mary Koza, Evelyn Young, Mary Read, Eileen Forde, lean Schmidt, Betty Smurthwaite, top row, Dorothy Leath- erman, Elizabeth Ott, Bessie Hobson, Marguerite Schultz, Ida Passa, Frances Weckler, and Helen Oleksyn. Amicae Ludorum Adopts New Code and Elects First Officers OME of the highlights of the Amicae Ludorum meetings this year were the initiation of new members, the banquets sponsored by the Girls' Athletic Association, the business meet- ings and basketball games. The organization gave its members an opportunity to earn points toward a letter by par- ticipating in field hockey, bas- ketball, volley ball and base- ball. Four letters were available to girls earning the required num- ber of points. The first letter, which is a scarlet N with a gray border, requires 500 points, two bars are the dis- tinctive marks of a second let- ter, which requires 750 points and the third letter, distinguish- ed by a star, 1000 points. Iden- tified by a Viking head, the fourth letter awarded only five times in the history of the school, required a total of l,350 points. OINTS were secured by hik- ing, by being elected squad leader or floor captain, by ap- pointment to the captainship of the first team in any sport or by passing the junior or senior life saving test. For making the first team l00 points were given, 75 points for a second team member and 50 points for the third team. Officers of the club were Doris Mann, president, Frances Weck- ler, vice president and Helen Hillman, secretary - treasurer. Marguerite Schultz took over the duties of hike manager from September to February and Mary Isaac succeeded her for the second semester. Amicue Ludorum, Group 11-Other members of the group. Bottom row, left to right: Ann Ioseph, Ioyce Claypool, Iune Irwin, Ruth Smith, Thelma Iohnson, Lorraine Fay, Donna 'l'appan and Mary Isaac, second row, Doris Mann, Isabel Passa, Virginia Kleckler, Dorothy Hampton, Shirley Miller, Agnes Orlicky, Virginia Moss, Harriet Selle and Shirley Laridisg third row, Georgina McQuigg, Elaine Brzewski, Lois Walder, Kathryn Lessard, Betty Lal-ioche, Rhoda Loder, Marguerite McAuslan, Helen Leach, Iosephine Goreckie, Iacqueline Peck, top row, Virginia Bird, Madolin Smith, Betty Lilly, Loretta Weiss, Virginia Iohnson, lean Addison, Angeline Milo, Vivian Town, Opal Williams and Helen Lipka. Page 26 Nineteen Thirty-Nine

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Grganized by Bequest Because of the many requests received for a small instrument- al group, the string quartet was organized this year to play at meetings of the Parent-Teacher Association, over the public ad- dress system and many of Northerns club and organiza- tion gatherings. Members of the string quar- tet were Frances Skrzela, Bich- ard Carr, Betty Everett and Mer- vin Whitcomb. lnterested in Music MUSTC teachers were present at the meetings of the Goldman Band Club in which lfred Smith, Bernard Smith and Charles Ensinger demonstrat- cd the playing of various instru- ments. This club was formed to pro- mote a keener musical interest among Northern students and is open to all students interest- ed in music. The club has been trying to raise a fund to pur- chase a bell lyre. The outstanding event of the year will be the Band Club ban- quet at the close of the school year when letters will be pre- sented to the deserving stu- dents. The officers were Peter Man- giaracina, president, Robert Mergan, vice president, Ernes- tine Borey, secretary and Wal- lace Gilmour, treasurer. Swap Stamps, Coins TRADING- of coins, stamps and V I information and giving re- ports featured the meetings of the Stamp and Coin Club, Northernfs haven for philatelists and numismatists. At other meetings, Clare Dean, sponsor, showed the boys how to identify, clarify and watermark their stamps. Sev- eral visitors exhibited their col- Page 28 l String Quartet-They stage programs for the enjoyment of the community. Lett to right: Richard Carr, Frances Skrzela, Betty Everett and Mervin Whitcomb. G ld B d Cl b-They promote a keener interest in music aims. Bottom row, lett to righcfz Ixrfllaxfnlv Icalixrie Ncztingham, Geneva Stottlemeyer, Donald Catrell, Frances McCutcheon, and BettyASmurthwaite, top row, Monroe Karrer, Dwight Holman, Iack Taylor, Peter Mangiaiacina and Mervin L. Whitcomb. Stamp and Coin-Their hobby is collecting stamps and old coins, Bottom row, left to right: Raymond Granger, William Morgan, Gordon Cates and George Matus, top row, Darwin Kilbourn, Albert Ambrose, Bruce Cooke, and Clare Dean, sponsor. lections and told the stories back of certain stamps and coins. Officers of the club were George Matus, president, Al Ambrose, vice president, Dar- win Kilbourn, secretary and Gordon Cates, treasurer. Nineteen Thirty-Nine