Northwestern College - De Klompen Yearbook (Orange City, IA)

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PRUFESSUH VH66 TNQ - I 2f:pL-' 'iff-' ' -1: '2 9. e ,E NW-'UE ' The Senator has been Academy Choir Director for two years. In that time the choir has learned to appreciate both his ability as director and his likable personality. , MIXED CHOIR PRACTICE 'K ANOTHER ONE OF MTHOSE REHEARSALSU. 46

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, I .?. m 0 U Y lx We a, Hcnnfmu cnum Music is a prophecy of what life is to beg the rainbow of promise translated out of seeing into hearing . Gown-boxesg risersg last-minute arrivalsg those noon-day rehearsals, the radio broad- casts with their impromptu solos, our director's remarks: Here's my handg we start when it gets down here . . . Too loud, I don't want to here you . . Sing peopleg sing as though you really enjoyed it 3 that catch in our throats as we faced all those peopleg that fifteen- minute pause when we could forget the joltings of the bus and the endless droning of its motor, the feeling of misery when we'd go flat in the middle of a song and cou1dn't seem to do anything about-it: the good feeling we had when we knew we were sing- ing wellg the anxiety before a concert and the relief when it was over, our eager anticipation of the Choir tour and the let-down feeling when it was all finished and we headed for home, and yet the satisfaction and joy we felt over the things we'd seen and the people we'd met- -these are the things we the members of the academy choir of 1949-1950 remember. Some things we soon forgot--the week-after-week of practicingg the way we dislike a song until we had learned itg the constant reminders of our director: Watch the beat , they were all a part of the training period. They were something we had to go through so that we could appear before our audiences without feeling lost. Sometimes our rehearsals were tediousg sometimes, when everyone was in a singing mood, they were fun. But we kept learning, and when we sang our concerts we put our hearts into our music. We sang words as well as notes. We felt the thrill of creating living music. We caught, faintly, glimpses of the life that is to be. 45

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HCHDEIHU FUREHSICS X JUTQQ y A f A , k fri, Much interest was shown by students of the Academy in the annual declamatory contests. Elimination con- tests were held in November and on December 9, Northwestern was host to the Four School Contest. Representatives from Freeman Academy, Freeman, South Dakotag Western Christian High School, Hull, Iowag Augustana Academy, Canton, South Dakota, ,and Northwestern Academy participated in both A and B divisions. Representing Northwestern in this contest were Philip Hesselink, Nelva Keunen, Elaine Hesselink, Minerva De Beer, Lois Dykstra, Shirley Spyker, Henrietta Geurink, Lois Hubers, and Gertrude Dykstra. 47