Oakville High School - Tillicum Yearbook (Oakville, WA)

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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.

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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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THE TILLICUM AL 'TQAHNENG 96' The Oakville Manual Training Department does not aim to make finished carpenters or cabinet makers, nor is it a Trade school fit- ting its pupils to join the Union, nor does it desire to put all its en- ergies into getting something ready for the Fairs. VVe hold that the prime object should be the cultural' value that comes from making a perfect joint, from a clear drawing, from the ability to interpret a working drawing correctly and put it into the finished product. At the Oakville Fair, a few sel'ected pieces were exhibited, and the school spirit was never better exemplified than when the boys pooled their money prizes with the Domestic Science girls and two fine pic- tures were purchased for the school. As usual, the repairs and new things about the buildings were done by the boys, and the same willing spirit prevailed. Teeter- boards, swings, out-door basket ball apparatus, tennis court, window boxes, walks, drawing table, library table, etc. were some of the things that they did, thus saving the employment of a carpenter by the Board of Directors. Many furniture catalogues are made use of by those who have progressed far enough to be able to make their working drawings from a picture. Two days a week are devoted to mechanical drawing and three to bench work. As all are given the right of choice of the object they wish to make, there has been a great variety of work from foot stools and ironing boards to morris chairs and cedar chests. John Austin made a roll top desk, Raymond Jorgenson a buffet, Earl Williams a library table, Willis Shull a book rack, Shannon White a porch swing, Willard Merry a cedar chest, Orvin Harris a couch, and Marjorie Weiland and Ethel Neeley each a dressing table. Not every thing goes into the pupils' homes. Lloyd Lemmon made a large desk for the I. O. O. F. and Paul Provoe a sand table for the Cedarville School-.