Phoenixville High School - Phoenix Yearbook (Phoenixville, PA)

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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.

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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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Boys' Glee Club First Row: W. S. Sample, William Kepp, Albert Twaddell, William Kabatt, William Vallicr, Benjamin Woodland, John Yost, Alexander Hoishek, Phillip Runkcwich. Second Row: Franklin Young, Richard Valenteen, Robert Montgomery, Robert Art- crs, Stacey Widdicombc, William Fritchman, Forest McFarland, Robert Donohue, Jacob Phillips. Third Row: Robert Gotwals, Samuel Smith, Alfred Tinney, Francis Taney, Marcus I' 1 'Xllen Neumann, George Hine, Richarc Devaney, Paul Cengri, John Fundcrwhitc, Bowman The Boys' Glee Club, an organization of thirty two members, meets but once a week, during the Tuesday activities period to delve into the en- joyment of singing some part songs for men's voices. The main project of the club for the year was preparing for its performance of the annual Spring Concert which was held in May. The fourth Christmas Candlelight Service of Worship presented by the P. H. S. music department with W. S. Sample Jr., director, was presented in the Memorial Junior high school auditorium, Sunday afternoon, De- cember 18, 1938 at 3 P. M. The combination of the high school orchestra, the girls' glee club, and a religious play, meant that the P. H. S. music de- partment had again presented an impressive Christmas program. The dramatic feature was the play Why The Chimes Rang which dramatized the divine beauty of charity. f Sixty