Northwest School of Agriculture - Red River Aggie Yearbook (Crookston, MN)

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g 'N.W.S.A. TOP ROVV. Holmes, Ivan Anderson, Bedard, McCall, Sundred, Omundson, Widseth, Pearson, Hoff, Hanson, Schroedar, Peterson, Degerness. SECOND ROW: Bursheim, Lindstrom, Harstad, I. Anderson, Torgerson, Hill, Miss Peterson, Miss Polski, Lundin, Pederson, Donley, Elton, B. Nornes, H. Nornes. FRONT ROVV: Burk, Ferry, Dalgren, Woods, Letnes, Filipie, Avery, Johnson, Solmonson, Poetchat, Larson, McKibben, DeMaster. The Mixed Chorus The Mixed Chorus at the Northwest School is as live an organization as any on the campus. As soon as school starts in the fall the Wednesday' assembly periods are given over to the chorus rehearsals and the air is filled with music. We hear from them at everything that goes on all year. They sing on Parents' Day, Homecoming, Thanksgiving, and at all the pep fests of the year. The personnel of the Chorus is made up of both the Boys' Glee and the Girls' Glee Club. A double Octette, picked from the groups, entertained at Winter Shows and the mixed quartette has proven very popular. This year the big event for the local singers was the operetta, The Sunbonnet Girlf' Tryouts were held early in January. The part of Sunbonnet Sue was taken by Mildred Malme, Bob, by Kenneth Avery, the part of Barbara by Bertha Poetchat, and Jerry by Helmer Nornes. Mrs. Coleman was sung by Agnes Lundin, Mrs. Scroggs by Arlene Hill, Mr. Scroggs by Alvin Degerness, and the constable by Edwin Widseth. Esther Torgerson took the part of Sadie, Violet Solmonson was Miranda, and Norman Moen was Reuben. Olive Heegaard was Evalina and Ann Thoreson was Luella. Marion Valor was Mrs. Meadows. The chorus, made up of other members of the group provided something more than the customary satisfactory background. Members of the orchestra provided the accompaniment. The operetta, as well as all the other activities of the Mixed Chorus, was under the able direction of Miss Peterson to whose able musicianship the organization is indebted for its success. Sffvfnly X

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yN.W.S.A.' Music SOY BEANS AND A STEINWAY VVe have grown accustomed to seeing the picture of the grand piano in our an- nuals from year to year. VVe have grown accustomed, too, to hearing it in assembly, for hymns, accompaniments and solos. We point to it with pride when a visiting artist comes to entertain us, but not many of us know that we owe this beautiful in- strument to the vision and foresight of a member of the Agronomy Department. VVhen Mr. R. S. Dunham joined the staff he found not one piano on the campus suitable for concert use. Mr. Dunham is himself an accomplished musician and has added much to the musical life of the school, and he set himself to see what could be done. There is no money for such a purposef' lVIr. Selvig said. lf we can grow a crop that will pay for it, all well and goodf' So Mr. Dunham raised a crop of soy beans. A crop of beans that was in turn to raise enough money to convince a Grand Forks piano firm to send us the beautiful Steinway that we accept as part of our daily life. But lest we forget the soy beans and the man who dreamed of a grand piano we dedicate this music section of our Aggie to that man who has done as much for the cause ot music on the Northwest Campus as any other member of the staff-Mr. R. S. Dunham. Sixty-nine' N i

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N.W. S. A. TOP ROW: Burk, Urbaniak, VVoods, MlcKibben, Wang, johnson, Poetchat. SECOND ROW: Edeen, Dalager, Torgerson, Miss Polski, Miss Peterson, Lundin, Solmonson, Larson. FIRST ROWV: Dalgren, Letnes, Thoreson, Pederson, Ferry, Hill, Caudle, Filipie. Girls' Glee Club The Girls' Glee Club has been doing very fine work this vear. We have been very fortunate in having Miss Norah Hamre as our accompanist. The Glee Club added very much to the program that was rendered on Parentls Day. They sang two numbers. On Thanksgiving Day the girls were dressed like Priscilla maidens. They en- tered from the back of the gym, singing a hymn of praise and bearing candles. They sang one hymn and then marched back in the same manner. At the Christmas Get Together Banquet the lights were dimmed and to the strains of Joy to the VVorld softly played, the girls came in from the back entrance of the Dining Hall. They were all dressed in white. bearing candles. They all gathered around the piano singing the song Silent Night. The Glee Club is under the direction of lVIiss Hildur Peterson. Agnes Lundin Hazel Dahlgren Esther Torgerson Mildred Malme Violet Solmonson Frances McKibben MEMBERS Sopranos Johanna Caudle Norah Hamre Gladys Eggen Agnes Sevald Esther Dalager Olga Edeen Altos Bertha Poetschat Arlene Hill Orpha Johnson Marion Valor Effie Pederson Ruby Ferry Angela Filipi Ann Thoreson Seventy-one i X