Rice High School - Edmundian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Gite omit MR. McGlLL, below, in a characteristic pose, directs the 125 member group while playing an organ accompaniment. Qi g,... A ft 1 1 'QI' 3 BROTHER VRANKA, above, Glee Club's moderator, listens to pianist - g i .ey I Ken Morris during one of the thrice weekly practice sessions in SQ If the auditorium. Brother Vranka kept attendance records, saw that the music was filed carefully and handled discipline so that -1 .X Mr. McGill could -be completely free to direct the students. XE .. KEN MORRIS, a Junior, above, an honor student and member of the track team, still found time to act as Glee Club accompanist. LOOKING AS THOUGH they were doing a TV commercial, six tenors pose for the photographer. They are: Andre Martialto, Walter Hamilton, Gilbert Ciotto, Ralph Valvano, Robert McAllister, Michael Stefanac. For the graduation exercises, the Glee Club wore summer tuxedos. The large group looked really impressive and sang just as well from the stage at Hunter College. In

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L.......,.....,..4i -v.-sian-vww-or THE SECOND TENORS, above, were the Glee Club's smallest group. They are: Left to Right-First Row: Clemente D'Alessio, Olice Williams, Richard Murray, Eugene Sullivan, Michael Rivers, Terence Forde, Salvatore Hili. Second Row: Thomas THE LARGER FIRST TENOR SECTION, below, gathers in the gym for their group picture. They are: left to Right-First Row: Kenneth Peeples, Thomas Russell, Joseph O'Sullivun, Joseph Bolger, Anthony Giangrasso, Thomas Burke, John Monnelly, George Stephen, Michael Flanagan, Edward Dineen, Bernard Cullen, Francis Hughes. Second Row: John Madigan, qv. L C , x , ETM1' 2 lf L.,,f1. Q 1, 1 I fd' VT, , l..,....-e cm... MJ' Dowd, Dennis Sullivan, John McCabe, John Johnson, Thomas Nihill, Patrick Nealon. They ranged from Ser1i0r to Ff9Sl1m0 ' year. The singing provided all Glee Clubbers with a welcome break from studies. Andre Martialto, Patrick McCartney, Walter Hamilton, Robert McAllister, Michael Stefanac, Ralph Valvano, Gilbert Ciotto, Francis O'Brien, Dennis Lynch, Raymond Daria, James Kearney, Andrew Carozza. This group usually sang the melody. Hence, they had less trouble learning their parts. 'czmf-rr-r-, ,.. ...am- , .c ...M ,,.,a.....,..-A-.-A., ,g-mice '4

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Q 'I THE BASS SECTION of the Glee Glub stops singing harmony long enough to have its picture taken. The Glee Club had tive part harmony with first and second basses and tenors and the young sopranos. Bass section was largely composed of older students whose voices had settled at bass level. The soprano section suffered casualties all year long with the changing voices of the young, growing singers. By March, there were only a handful ot Freshmen who could sing the high soprano parts. These basses, however, remained as steady as the bottom note in Ole Man River . They are: Left to Right-First Row: Michael Occhipinti, I ff Harold Sanchez, John Gonzalez, Gerald Valdes, Patrick Leavy, Manuel Latiosse. Second Row: Edward Thompson, John Andrews, Francis Bradley, Brendan O'Riordan, Philip Sasso. Third Row: Joseph Cotroneo, Alphonse Szigethy, Nicholas Saunders, Thomas Daly, Jeremiah 0'Callaghan, Edward Flynn. Fourth Row: William Barnett, Charles Teney, Michael Holland, William Terrell, James Roche, Frank Sanchez. Filth Row: James Tracey, Edward Kildutf, Frank Maloney, Lawrence Crowley, James Van Nest. Sixth Row: Richard Mueller, Vito Peragino, Werner lamberty, Douglas Kearney, Thomas Welsome. 11