Oakville High School - Tillicum Yearbook (Oakville, WA)

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THE TILLIC URI MUSHC Q-6 The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. -Shakespeare. The music classes have been very successful this year both as to numbers and work accomplished. We have a girls' chorus, a boys' chorus, a combined chorus, a male quartette, a girls' sextette and a mixed quartette. The girls' and boys' choruses each meet two periods per week, the combined chorus one period per Week, while the other organizations meet before and after school. There are thirty-four enrolled in the girls' chorus, twenty-six in the boys' and over sixty in the combined chorus. The various organizations have sung at meetings of the Parent- Teachers' Association, at the two Senior vaudevilles, at meetings of the Debate Club, at two church services, at patrictic me'etings, at the Baccalaureate services, and at the Commencement exercises. Perhaps the most popular organization is the Male Quartette, composed of Her- bert Fry, Ernest Van Walker, Paul Provoc and Willard Merry. All have fine voices which blend to a nicety, their stage presence is good, and they are always sure of an encore. Much time has been given to the study of patriotic and familiar songs, as well as to the study of operatic and sacred music. Selec- tions from the following operas have been presented, Il Trovatoref' Faust, , Don Juan, Aida, Martha, Iolanthe, Beggar Stu- dent, Chimes of Normandy, Patience, The Pirates of Penzance, and Olivette, Gound's, Send Out Thy Light, duet arrangement of The Lord Is My Shepherd, for female voices, and familiar hymns were given on Baccalaurate Sunday, and are representative of work done along the line of sacred music. The aim, throughout the year, in all the High School music has been to use selections that have attained to lasting popularity be- cause of their beauty, and therefore should be known to all, N0

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TIIE TILLIC U11 After the Montesano game a lunch was served to the team and they enjoyed themselves until the orchestrai?J struck. At the end of the season, the first team of girls were guests of Miss Henry, their coach, at a very pretty eight o'clock dinner, on March 22. Those present were: The Misses Dorothy Paul, Jessie Bain, lvlartha Menish, Stella NVilliams, and Marjorie Weiland. Miss Nella Griswold was out of town, and so could not be present. A brsket social was given by the Sophomores in the High School building, April' 5, at which games were played, and then the baskets auctiorfd off by Mr. Deane. Freshmen and Seniors alike bid for the coveted baskets, and in this way, made tho evening a financial as well as a social success. M. S. '18 and L. E. '18, , 1 ' HVVATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE-DEC. 13, 1917.

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TIIE TILLICUA1 small amount of credit for our successful year is due Marjorie Wei- land and Mildred Sweitzer who have acted as accompanists at a1'1 re- hearsals and performances of the different organizations during both semesters. Mrs. Stewart, some five minutes after telling Willie to remove the gum from his mouth: Willie, you put that gum in the waste- basket right now! Willie: I can't. I swallowed it a long time ago. Mrs. Stewart: Open your mouth widely when you sing. Raymond: But if I do, you can't see my face. DKSCPFPKPK MY BOTANY The hours I spent with thee, O Bot, Will be a string of P's to me, I count them over every one a flunkg My Botany, my Botany! Each month a test, each test a P, Without a doubt, I sure am stung, I count the P's unto the end, And there-a final flunk-is hung. Ah! acids strong that bite and burn! Oh! nitric spilled at every turn! But worst of all, to strive at last to l'e:t1'n To take a flunk-O Prof-to take a flunk!-Ex.