Riverhead High School - Blue Peconic Yearbook (Riverhead, NY)

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The Staff Plans the 1950 Blue Peconic ELLEN JEAN BOTTORFF Editor-in-Chief JOHN KRATOVILLE Business Manager PATRICIA HOWELL PETER BEREZNY MARGARET TOOKER JOSEPH LUKOWSKI Senior Editors EDNA BAKER WILSON STOUT Sports Editors MARCIA REGENT NANCY WILCOX Art Editors JANE NUGENT NATHANIEL TALMAGE Candids NORMAN CORWIN GAY PERKINS Junior Editor Typist Photographer — DOLEGA STUDIO, Riverhead, L. I. Printer — T. O'TOOLE SONS, INC., Stamford, Conn. CAROL BURNS Activities LIZETTE F. HAND Adviser

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Richard Donges. Mary Jo Trevor, Anita Morell, Ann Painter, Jacqueline Warner, Donna Heckathorne, Bob Crohan, Phyllis Ryker, Robert Heckathorne, Mary Medsger, Mr. Mac- Donald, Frieda Schoenborn, Joan Heidenreich, James Nash, Norman Corwin, Carol Burns, Alvin Sandberg, Joe Cabaret, Peter Berezny, Maryanna Zamber, Bob Hansen, Stanley Hagler, Sylvia Firth, Alex McMaster, Geraldine Weller, Robert Harris. THE ORCHESTRA PREPARES FOR SPRING CONCERT Untune that string, and hark what discoid follows. Every Tuesday and Thursday the sixth period the auditorium is filled with the singing of violins, the light-hearted dancing of woodwinds and the forceful majesty of the brass and percussion. This year s music was varied. Numbers range from Hoagy Carmichael's Stardust to Bach’s Sheep May Safely Gaze or Mozart's G Minor Symphony. Members look forward each year to the NYSSMA concerts which are held in the fall. “The man that hath no music in himself. . . ■iiiiiailiiiii THE STRING ENSEMBLE PERFORMS During the sixth period on Mondays, Wednes- days and Fridays, the string players retire to the cafeteria. Here, under the direction of Mr. Mac- Donald, they saw away at difficult passages and read new music. Some of the numbers the group have tried to perfect are Holiday for Strings, selections from The Song of Norway, and Per- petual Motion. This year the string group per- formed for the Rotary Club.