Pershing High School - Parade Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Band lwudic Mahal mefuuf Jleafdii The music department, under the direction of Mr. Kenneth lewell and Miss Lyle Engstrom, once again participated in most ot the activities of the school. The orchestra under the direction of Mr. lewell, played at the tenth anniver- sary ot the Lutheran Charities, at the senior play, and for the Christmas pro- gram. ln order that the students who had a late program might have a chance to join the music department, the band met the fourth hour and the orchestra the sixth hour. As a result of this, the instrumental department had the largest enrollment of all times. The band, which played at all of the home football games and the Hamtramck

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Pad- 7mm The Chem Phystcs Club ts under the sponsorshtp of Mrs F Cooper At the meetrngs the members carry out some unusual demonstratrons rn chermstry and phys1cs usrng experrrnents beyond ordlnary class work They have at least one outstde speaker and one socral tunctxon each semester and whenever poss1ble tr1ps are made through mdustrtal plants The ofhcers are Peter Lrcata prestdent Iohn Schrmer vrcekpresrdent Dorothy Hammes secre tary and George Protopapas treasurer Sponsored by Mrss Sharkey one of Pershtngs new teachers the Spanrsh Club has Dolores Lund burg as 1lS presrdent Suzanne Ltnder as vlce pres rdent Ines Holtze as secretary and Manlyn Macey as treasurer As far as 6Cl1V1l19S are concerned they have been lrmrted to a socral meettng and the plannlng of a Chrrstmas party to be held lanuary 5 1945 The events of the successful party were a play rn Spamsh Btngo rn Spanrsh and drfterent kmds of entertatnment The purpose of th1s club IS to further rnterest rn the Spanrsh language customs people and all thmgs related to them CLUB CLUB l , . , . . , ' 1 - Q - I - I . . I 1 f , . ' I I ' , . I I I - ' I I I I . . . . . . . I I 1 -. -. -..ns W., 1. . 1 ' s SPANISH CHEM PHYSICS

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CHORUS '7faeq Sing aaa Wicloaq game, is the best marching band that Pershing ever had. Mr. Iewell said that the choir is the finest one he has had. As proof of this statement the choir sang as a final selec- tion to the Christmas Program, Pred Earing's stirring arrangement of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. The girls' ensemble, under the direc- tion of Miss Engstrom, sang at the Parent- Teacher's Association meeting of the Michigan Education Association and also at the Christmas program. A trio, Elsie Rychlewsky, Rosemary Popp, and loan McCfilliVrary, accom- panied by Mrs. Helen Haglund, Went to the River Rouge U. S. C. Center on No- vember l4, l944, to entertain the soldiers. Marion Shimlcy accompanied the trio and danced. 13233252515 .Q-1 4 tra QW? rr - gg BOYS CHORUS NUXED