Paseo High School - Paseon Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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Tinai 19128 PASEON r-vb.-vw .,wf-,:q.1.m4.agy- is-w.i.,m,s,:.,1tA11-.. -W - -7- -- - . Y , L 25 ADVANCED ORCHESTRA The Paseo High School Advanced Grches- tra is now completing a second and most suc- cessful year. This organization of students is the result of two years of unceasing labor on the part of their able director, Miss Marguerite Zimmerman. lt has progressed rapidly in the last year and promises to progress more rapid- ly in the following year. The orchestra began by selecting Edward McNulty as concert master and Kenneth Shreeve as assistant. The personnel of the orchestra is: First violins, Edward McNulty, Jr., Kenneth Shreeve, Roy Guettler, Milton Graham, Morris Schnider, John Gadwood, Esther Bolesg second violin, Freda Mnookin, Edna Swenson, Rose McCorrister, Edwin Barnes, Meredith Mes- secar, Eugene Lodd, james Major, double bass, Virginia Wfilkinsong piano. Veronica Dolan, Wlillis Quant, flutes, Ethel Grant. Marietta Seayg clarinets, Maxine Grant, Ben Lakeg trombones, Ernestine Hale, Paul Arnold, cornets, Richard Kneeland, Foster Streep, Robert Kendal, drums and tympani, Donald Ruben. TI-'IE PASEO BAND The Paseo Band, under the direction of Mr. Edmonds, has increased from membership of twenty-five to, forty pieces. It has not only increased in numbers, but also in effficiency in playing and instrumentation. The band has played for every local athletic event in which Paseo has engaged. The members are: B flat cornets, Richard Meisburger, Paul Marchant, Foster Streep-, Francis Miles, Theodore Dawson, Richard Kneeland, John johnson, Leon Thompson, Norman Howell, Ralph Kindell, Junior Tun- gett, Francis Jones, Benjamin Sheerer, Dean Young, jerry Dugan, trombones, Ernestine Hale, Paul Arnold, Harold Frisbee, Paul Berg- man, E flat horns, Lowell Myers, Norwell VValdron, baritones, Fred McKittrick, Frank- lin Carr, B B basses, Fred Barker, Byron Streep, B flat clarinets, DeWitt Stewart, Zackie Clowser, Ben Lake, Ro-bert Thornton, David Hart, Edwin Barnes, Leftage Haley flutes and piccolo, Marietta Seay and Ethel Grant, saxophones, Jack Shoop, Clayton Marker, Ray Stinson, .Toe Cordello, Rudolph Greenbaum, Carroll Godbey, Robert Lunn, Frank Richardson, Fedler, Flossie Bryant, Doris Chatfieldg drums, Gilbert Rohn, Lloyd Lippincott, Joe Aldrich, joe Miles, VVilliam Dalrymple and Donald Rubens.

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24 THE 1928 PASEON I e BOYS' GLEE CLUB Under the able direction of Miss Zimmer- man, the Boys' Glee Club has made much progress. They have sung at many of the school affairs and made a good showing at the cantata contest. Earl Richmond placed first with his solo But Hark! What Distant Sounds ! The choral, consisting of six boys and six girls, also placed first. The boys were Dean Kennedy, Harold Boese, Ralph Bevan, Earl Richmond, Fred jones, Robert Quant. This song is a. Latin hymn, Jesu Dulcis Memoriaf' The members are: First tenors, Harold Boese, Frederick Hall, Dean Kennedy, Irving Lachs, Robert Pigg, Raymond W'aldron, Jean Weber, second tenors, Ralph Bevan, Virgil Dow, Raymond Perrin, Bud Stuart, Dorsey VVarreng first basses, Charles Anderson, Rob- ert Bradley, Roy Brewer, Mahlon Bullock, Stephen Counts, Benjamin Grover, Forrest Nash, Richard Raymond, Albert Rick, Glenn Smith, jerry Spanier, Raymond Stanley, Fred Barker. Leon Boernstein, Billy Keith, Bill Kyte, Robert Quant, Earl Richmond, accom- panist, Willis Quant. GIRLS' CI-IORAL CLUB The Choral Club has been a most active or- ganization this year. .Besides its appearances at school, the club has sung at the Paseo Meth- odist church, the Calvary Baptist church, and Christmas the girls sang at the Union Station. They sang Christmas carols, and were dressed in black robes. In the contests for the cantata at VVestport High School, they won two first places. Ruth Leib placed with a soprano solo, and a choral group consisting of Ruth Leib, Marian Paulette, Edna Mae Swenson, Alexa Chitwood, Pauline Meyer and Alma Hatten also placed. Much credit is given to Miss Zimmerman for untiring effort in training the girls, and Alma Hatten for accompanying. The officers for the year are: President, Helen Flanagan, vice-president. Rose Krumpsg secretary-treas- urer. Naomi Lemmonsg reporter. Alexa Chit- wood. There are fifty-three girls' in the club. Qn the Friday before Christmas the girls walked through the corridors singing the carols during all the class periods. A view was taken at that time for use in the Paseon.

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l 26 THE 1928 PASEON r l ,. . .. Hi . .Mas-Ma as maauwumfzma The Spell of the lmagen The Spell of the Imagef, the second an- nual Christmas play, was presented to an en- thusiastic audience of eleven hundred in the auditorium Friday, December 9. The presen- tation was a comedy drama in three acts and a prologue. The scene of this story is laid near New York and the time is the present. In the pro- logue Phyllis Castleman, of the early colonial days, escapes her guests on the eve of her be- tro-thal to an English nobleman, and grants an audience to her former lover. He taunts her because she has given him up for riches and a passing gypsy tells of an unhappy future. She grasps the pearls, a gift from her betrothed, and hides them in the image. Generations pass, and the pearls remain hid- den in the fantastic body of the image. Finally the old Castleman house falls into the hands of Phyllis and Katherine Aldrich, played very capably and refreshingly by Besse Higbee, and the poised Frances Rush, respectively. Phyllis acquires the position of reporter on the Clarion a newspaper owned by Macdonald Dunbar, portrayed by Earl Richmond who took the lead smoothly. Though the girls have nothing to live on but family honor, their aunt on the aristocratic Castleman side, heartily objects to the girls working. Elizabeth Faust was a dig- rvaf--,WW--Q-.,,a....s ,... ,W ..,., . nified old lady ofa aristocratic bearing. The Clarion is thrust into every sort of trouble, particularly political, by Henry Carter, a rival journalist and a sneaking politician. Harold Boese is the hateful rival. But his smooth work is discovered by Ted, the office boy, and Kitty, and the scoundrel is forced to come to terms. Carter also is forced to pay for an injury done to the father of Kitty's sweetheart, Terrence Donovan. This part is played by Charles VValters with an excellent irish accent. About this time Belinda, the clumsy maid, played ever so cleverly by Olive Jane Joyce, finds the pearls hidden so long ago in the image, thus the final difficulties of Phyllis and Kitty are brought to an abrupt but pleas- ant end. Phyllis makes the new energetic llunbar happy by asking him the question that he had asked her but had been refused be- cause of his wealthy ne'er-do-well attitude. The supporting cast, an excellent one, was made up of Leon Bornstein, Ruth Talbot, lrene Mathis. Wlalter Lyman, Lucille Harper, Danae Wfalters. Charles Bramble, Lillian Koppel and Myron Blotcky. From the colorful prologue of hoopskirts, powdered wigs and minuets to the last word, the play was a huge success. .L .. 0...-N.-ugnngq