Parsons College - Peira Yearbook (Fairfield, IA)

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OIR The Parsons College Philharmonic Choir is one of the most outstanding organizations on the campus. Under the new direction of Professor Donald Dean Dawson the choir has had a very busy and successful year. Much credit is due the students for the interest they have shown and for the quality of music they have contributed. Press notices in every town have commended the choir highly. Three times a week this large organization meets in Ewing Hall for an hour's practice. Professor Dawson gave, at all times, unstintingly of his energy, and to his criticism and suggestions the choir owes much.

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THE PHILHARMONIC CH DONALD DEAN DAWSON, CONDUCTOR OFFICERS President ------ Robert Bruce Vice-President - - - Doris Simmons Secretary-Treasurer - Vivienne Hammon Social Chairman - - E Dorothea Ienista BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Iohn Minehart Robert Davis Kenneth Iungbluth SOPRANO Evelyn Asire, Virginia Aylesworth, Betty Bishop, Barbara Brown, Myrna Brown, Marjorie Coots, Maxine Cupp, Iola Dittmer, May Farmer, Bonadelle Fullerton, Louise Heer, Irene Hutchcroft, Dorothea Ienista, Kathleen Maasdam, Elinor McMurray, Betty Ovrom, Sarah Page, Ollie Price, Pruella Sperry, Virginia Spielman, Elaine Stookesberry, Gladys Thomas, Ruth Walker, Marcella Warnacut, Earlyne Wilson, Mary lane Wilson, Mary Wittrig. ALTO Lucille Barrow, Elizabeth Bell, Dorothy Burge, Margaret Campbell, Pauline Coleson, Olabeth Coots, Ruth Creighton, Marjorie Elliott, Betty Ewing, Mary Farmer, Mary Carolyn Ford, Marjorie Free, Dorothy Frescoln, Bettye Gibson, Vivienne Hammon, Mary Ellen Hedge, Darlene Hoskins, Vera Howell, Louise Hughes, Margaret Irvine, Marion Keiser, Ieanne Lawrence, Kathryn Maasdam, Kathleen Maasdam, Ruth Moyer, Mary Alice Nady, Marjorie Nelson, Isabelle Parsons, Christine Pedrick, Betty Pickett, Annabelle Price, Hollis Deane Rodgers, Betty Ross, Doris Schmidt, Doris Simmons, Irene Stortz, Karlena Thoma, Rosalie Van Dyke, Edna Vandemark, Evelyn Watts. TENOR Marvin Anderson, Doc Antle, Robert Bruce, Roland Bush, Walter Epperly, Rex Firkins, Tom Fordyce, Louis Fowler, Wesley Hamm, Robert Iohnson, Kenneth Iungbluth, Harold Leet, George McClain, Iohn Minehart, Xavier Nady, Robert Nicely, Robert Parker, Dale Price, William Smith. BASS Phillip Allen, Charles Allender, Harold Buell, Gordon Coleson,vRobert Davis, Dale Dillavou, Frank Forsythe, Clinton Frank, Iohn Goodman, Everett Graf, Russell Harper, Iarnes Kimple, Addison Lawton, Wilmer Leeds, Francis Littleton, Dean Luxford, Robert Marr, Donald Mclntosh, George McMican, Edward Noonan, Wade Nyquist, Robert Reeves, Charles Roe, Verlin Rowley, Ted Saur, Forrest Schwengles, Robert Sutphen, lack Underwood, Keith Van Horn.

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ARTISTS CO Dowel! Wemm Organist and Director at the First Baptist Church and at the Congregation B'nai Iehudah, of Kansas City, Mo., and Head of the Music Department of the Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas. Powell Weaver, internationally known organist and composer, was presented in an organ recital at Barhydt Chapel on December first. He amazed and delighted his audience with his flawless playing. None but an artist of consummate ability can bring from a strange organ such music as was heard that evening. Pedal dexterity that equaled his amazing manual technique-registration of faultless taste-the interpretation of a master-there was nothing left to be desired. The Philhar- monic Choir sang a group of Mr. Weaver's compositions with a freshness and verve rarely heard.