Richmond High School - Pierian Yearbook (Richmond, IN)

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The Music Department FOR real DEMOCRACY,', look to the Music, be it BAND-CI-IOIR-ORCHES TRA, for here the many individual voices and personalities learn to blend and har- monize, and to speak as ONE. With an enrollment of over 400, the Music Department reaches a large percent- age of students in active participation, and then strives to serve our school in many various ways. The Band, well uniformed, has served school and community with excellent music and clever maneuvers on the football Held, basketball Hoor, in city parades and concerts. It rates as one of the outstanding bands in the Middle West. The Choir this year reached its peak of performance in the presentation of the Gilbert and Sullivan Comic Opera, UH. M. S. Pinaforef' which proved a real success. The opera, a Christmas as- sembly, and numerous program calls in the community have kept the Choir busy indeed. The Orchestra, too, has had its series of concerts and programs, and has so steadily ad- vanced in its style and technique that now we look with pride at this group of musi- cians. Then, the ALL GIRL ORCHESTRA and BOYS' GLEE CLUB, though meeting only forty-five minutes each week, have a place in the activities of the department. As an innovation, five students have added interest to their musical experiences in the study of the new electric organ purchased by our School Board this year. The RED DEVIL SWINGSTERS, which met twice a week, were also called upon to give several outside programs. So, from pipe-organ to piccolo May we serve our school wherever we go! THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT. A ' if ALL GIRL ORCHESTRA BOYS' SWING BAND

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rt in High School RT plays an important part in our lives. It is used everywhere and in every- thing. In our school, crafts, commercial art, and fine art are offered, cover- ing every phase of the subject. Pottery, weaving, leather tooling, tie-dying, and carving give opportunity for individual creative work to the craft students. Com- mercial art includes lettering, costume illustration, cartoons, and posters. Fine art offers oil painting, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, and pencil sketching. McGuire building is the result of one manis interest in art, given as a me- morial to his mother, Esther McGuire. The art department moved into it from Morton Hall on December seventh. It seems like a dream to be honored with such a place. The four galleries offer a greater and wider range of education. There is the permanent collection of pictures in two of the galleries, and the other two are used for current exhibitions. After the exhibit of non-objectives by Will Stevens, some of the work done in the art classes showed the decorative influence of the artist's beautiful color and design. A one man show consisting of thirty oils, watercolors, and pastels, by Gor- don Kelly, a senior student, was exhibited by the Art Association. The Art department offers three clubs-Art Appreciation, Sketch and Hobby, and A Club. The annual convention of the State Federation of Iunior Art Clubs, of which the A Club is a member, was held April eighteenth, in Mc-' Guire Hall. An exhibit was shown during this meeting, and seven of the thir- teen medals awarded were received by R. H. S. students. Few schools have an art program such as is possible here, with painting and art objects always on display and opportunity for pupils to know the director, Mrs. M. F. Iohnston, and have the advantage of her long years of experience in furthering art education in our school. age eleven MURAL by Marcia Iohnson

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