Phoenixville High School - Phoenix Yearbook (Phoenixville, PA)

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Urchestm Front Row: W. S. Sample, Goldie Greenstein, Edna Davis, Esther Ludwick, Olga Flaga, Beulah Downing, Pauline Pollock, Frances Dunmore, Anna Mae March, Allan Park. Second Row: Edward Eckhardt, Sonia Normann, William Kabatt, Wayne Taney, John Yost, Franklin Young, Phillip Neumann, Robert Donohue, Joseph Vegso, Phillip Runkewich. Third Row: Joseph Wollinger, William Kepp, William Fritchman, Mary Jo Murray, LeRoy Friday, Marguerite Yaworski, Robert Arters, Benjamin Woodland, Kenneth Fegley, Frank Deger, John Atkinson. Fourth Row: Catherine Schmidt, Edna Schmidt, Bette Gotwals. The high school orchestra of thirty-four players made its first appear- ance of the year at the Christmas Candlelight Services and lent much to the effectiveness of the worship service. The orchestra journeyed to West Chester April 24, 1939, to take part in the Chester County Orchestra Festival, Where it made a creditable showing among the ten other schools participating. The orchestra played a major part in the Annual Spring Concert on May 18, and gave a splendid account of themselves in the performance of their numbers. Music for the senior play Was rendered by the orchestra. Commencement exercises concluded the activities for the school year, 1939. fy

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Band T 'f Sixty-four Front Row: Jean Austin. Dorothy Christman, Frances Dunmo1'e, Margaret Lubold Helen Reber, Kathryn Godshalk, Beulah Downing, Bertha Bloomer, Doris Hartman, Anne Dewecs, Mary Jo Murray, Marie Campbell, Jacob Phillips, Robert Donohue, Bernard Kosci, Franklin Young, Kenneth Fegley, Joseph Kassel. Second Row: Ruth Peppel, James Hughes, David Harrcp, Alex Hoishek, Lloyd Wen- ger, Phillip Neumann, Wayne Taney. William Kabatt, Sonia Normann, Edward Eck- hardt, F1'ank Deger, Jack Yost, Benjamin Woodland, Robert Arters, Olga Flaga, Rosetta Doebling, John Atkinson, Donald Smith. Third Row: Forrest McFarlane, Phillip Runkewich, William Fritchman, William Kepp, Robert Gctwals, Marion Ulmer, Beatrice Quay, Joseph Wolfinger, George Hine, Paul Seeley, Gertrude Fry, Edna Schmidt, Marguerite Yaworski, LeRoy Friday, Franklin llartzel, Robert Havrilla, Walter Funk. The P. H. S. Band in its new purple military uniforms trimmed in white lent considerable color to the football games, parades, and concerts in which it took part. Its many new and novel marching maneuvers were features of the football season. V At the band concert of February 24, 1939 the band gave a fine con- cert which was enjoyed by a large and appreciative audience. Football sea- son opens the work which closes with several concerts in Reeves Park. Twenty-five engagements were filled by this year's organization of 54 players under the leadership of W. S. Sample.

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Girls' Glee Club Sixty-si The first appearance of the year for the Girls' Glee Club was at the impressive Christmas Candlelight service at which time the girls sang George B. N evin's Christmas Cantata, The Adoration. Under the guidance of W. S. Sample, this year's organization number- ed seventy-five singers, an increase over other year's membership. 9 The girls competed at Haverford, April 14, with other Class B Girls Choruses, and won the competition. On May 18, at the Spring Concert, they gave a very pleasing performance. The girls traveled to Philadelphia, May 21, where they sang on a Sunday broadcast over W F I L. The P. H. S. music department played host to the twenty schools of Southeastern Pennsylvania who had students in the All-Southeastern Dis- trict Chorus which was held here on May 6, 1939. Three hundred students Were in the chorus, twenty-five being from P. H. S. The chorus gave a brilliant performance and was enthusiastically received by the audience which filled the Memorial Junior high school auditorium. Seven students participated in the Southeastern District orchestra held at Haverford Township high school. Six performed with the South- eastern District band at Collingdale. Two P. H. S. .music students, Bertha Bloomer and Mary-Jo Murray, were honored by having their applications accepted by the all-State Band at Lancaster, the band being under the di- rection of Frank Simon. One orchestra member, Bette Gotwals, Went to Johnstown to play with the All-State Orchestra. All of these District and State festivals were sponsored by the Pennsylvania School Music Associa- tion of which P. H. S. is a member. The Baccalaureate Service was the final appearance for the group.