Pleasant Mills High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Pleasant Mills, IN)

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MUSIC DEPARTMENT On December 1, the schedule was changed and arranged so that time was made available for some high school music. Mr. Dolby called the groups together and they sang Christmas songs just for fun until after the Christmas vacation. Then the groups were reorganized and individual voice tests were made to divide the groups for three-part singing. At first some were very shy about singing by themselves, and only after a few brave ones took their tests and found them not difficult did the rest of the members submit to the tests. The girls were divided into first soprano, second soprano, and alto, and the boys into first tenor, second tenor, baritone and bass. The freshman and sophomore group had separate classes for girls and boys twice each week. The junior and senior girls had their class during the boys physical education period so the boys could not join the class. They met twice each week. The big project for the year was to learn music for the County Music Festival to be held at Geneva on April Z. This was to be a program by all the high schools in the county. Each school was allotted about 5 minutes to furnish some music by their school alone and then the combined music departments of the county ftotaling about 250 membersj were to sing six songs. All the girls glee clubs were to be united to sing Beautiful Dreamer, Foster, and Mistress Margarita -Penn. The combined boys glee clubs' numbers were Stouthearted Men and Desert Song both by Romberg. The entire group was to sing On the Road to Mandalay -Speaks, and Thanks be to God -Dickson. Mr. Varner Chance, Supervisor of Instrumental Music in the Fort Wayne Schools, was engaged to direct the combined groups in the six numbers mentioned This seemed to be a big order with only three months to go. But everyone got right down to work and learned the music even though three-part singing was new to most of the students. Besides this music festival, concerts were planned for the glee clubs in the spring at the local churches. Also the music departnqent furnished music for the Farmers Institute, P. T. A. meetings Senior Play, Junior Play, Baccalaureate, and Commencement. Special groups were chosen out of the glee clubs. These included a double trio, several trios, a boys' quartet, a mixed quartet, and several solos.

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WASHINGTON D. C. TRIP On Thursday morning, April 10, 1947, the Junior and Senior Classes consisting of 34 members, accompanied by Arnold Conrad, a faculty member, and Miss Cora Jane Ememhiser of Fort Wayne, left for the five day tour of the Eastern States. We started our long journey by going to Decatur then to Van Wert where we took Highway 30 through Upper Sandusky, Bugyl-us, and Mansfield, Ohio, where we ate dinner. After an hour we continued our journey through Wooster, Massillon, Canton, and East Liverpool. Then we whizzed through West Virginia, and arrived at the Fort Pitt Hotel in Pittsburg at five o'clock, We were so eager to continue our journey to Washington that we didn't sleep so we got a very early start on Friday. ' After spending Friday morning visiting points of interest in Pittsburgh, including Forbes Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, we proceeded to our destination, arriving there at three in the after- noon. Before going to the Hotel Annapolis we went through the Wash- ington Cathedral, which was just being completed and saw many fam- ous tombs. About five we were in our hotel rooms with instructions to have fun but be on the bus at seven the next morning. On Saturday we got our first glimpse of this beautiful city with all of its colorful cherry blossoms. We also saw many important places on Saturday such as the White House, Capitol, Smithsonian Institute, National Gallery of Art, Ford's Theater, Congressional Library, National Airport, Tomb of the Unknown Dead, Christ Church Potomac River, U. S. Supreme Court Building, Lincoln Memorial, Jeffersons' Monument, Lee Mansion, Mt. Vernon, and historic Alexandria, Virginia. During the morning we had a group picture taken with Congressman Gillie. Sunday some visited the Washington Monument during the morning. Leaving Washington at one o'clock, we toured the Annapolis Naval Academy, a submarine on Chesapeake Bay, and saw John Paul Jones Tomb in Maryland, after which we proceeded to Gettysburgh where we spent the night in private homes. We saw the Eternal Peace Light when we visited the famous Civil War battle ground site on Monday morning. After taking our special guide back to Gettysburg we traveled the Pennsylvania Turn- pike which has a series of seven mountain tunnels. We arrived in Pittsburgh where we spent Monday night before returning home on Tuesday afternoon, April 15, 1947, where a very weary group of students bade farewell to our bus driver, Wayne Oxley, and guide, Tom Totten. BY--Lois Bauman Grace Winans