Sampson College - Senecan Yearbook (Geneva, NY)

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.we ,f . . T u If F1 T ' yi, T A M I- Longhair? Come and ioin The club. You, Too, will become serious. Rhyfhm Cl b eff Levinellp Membership: Siffin For Those who love aesTheTic, and music in parTicular There is an organizaTion on The campus dedicaTed To ThaT love. The MUSIC APPRECIATION CLUB is a small group, which meeTs in The comTorTable music lounge, where one can relax To The sTrains of Bach, BeeThoven, and Brahms, enioy on occasion a compleTe opera sung by leading sTars, and Thrill To The arTisTry oT greaT names in The producTion oT greaT music. The SAMPSON RHYTHM CLUB, one OT The oldesT organizaTions on The campus, meeTs every Monday. BeTween The spin- ning oT disks by ArmsTrong and Gillespie, The members manage To squeeze in a shorT business rneeTing, During one oT These meeTings plans were TormulaTed Tor The presenTaTion oT The Norman Granz Jazz aT The Philharmonic concerT held in The sum- mer oT I947. Early in I948, as The records spun, members were again heard mum- bling, and iT would noT be The leasT biT surprising To hear once more The Blues aT Sampson. I I fesidenfg F gxpaul B ' I eifionding Secref,5,.y, ggrkkiang, Bm LearLZaF21Chef5chubeH Rob ln on Jaycox T ' l CElray S, ' durlce Ada I - . . - 5 d- fhs, Cor- om While, n mg fl.-r.j,Don Fo wler,

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f 'r .'-, iv , . .I , 1 WRITERS GUILD The WriTers' Guild is an or.ganizaTion aT Sampson College for The sTimulaTion and encouragemenT oT creaTive wriTing. Under The sponsorship of Pro- Tessors ElizabeTh UTTerback and James l-larvey, The would-be wriTers come TogeTher every oTher Mon- day evening To siT around a Table in The English Conference room, read original manuscripTs, and lisTen To criTicism. PoeTry, shorT sTories, plays, essays-any Type oT creaTive wriTing is accepTable. The guild was The ouTgrowTh of an inTeresT in creaTive wriTing on The campus, and The desire To bring TogeTher people oT similar TasTes. lT was Tormed by a few sTudenTs in January, 1947, and has grown sTeadily unTil iT now includes abouT TiTTy S AMPSO CRIBE The Scribe has aFfordecl our would-be wri+ers anoTl1er chance To see Their manuscripfs in prinT, acTive members-sTudenTs, sTudenT wives, TaculTy members all being on iTs rosTer, Work shops were held on alTernaTe Monday nighTs, when an ouTside spealcer of auThoriTy lecTured on a Type oT liTeraTure and Then conducTed an informal roundTable on The subiecT under discussion. Some oT The meeTings were social, when The group exchanged ideas and enioyed reTreshmenTs. AcTing oflicers are: Chairman, James Mclvlanusq Vice-President John C. Arnold, SecreTary-Treasurer, l-Tope Landrum. This was The Guild's firsT public-aTion of The creafive wrifings of Hs members. a 25 CENTS SPRINGI 4'

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, ss.. XJ. 'f W tl, The Concerl' Orcheslra provides an oul- lel for sludenis whose inleresls and lalenls lie in lhe field of orcheslral music. The orcheslra has performed al The Cor- onalion Concerl, al' sludenl and facully receplions, and al recilals sponsored by The Music Appreciafion Club. Some of 'rhe members of The Concerl Orcheslra par- +icipa+e in lhe Slring Orcheslra and in various slring ensembles. This year lhe major proiecl of The Con- cerf Orcheslra has been lhe playing of +he orcheslral accompanimenl for l-landels Messiah, The Messiah was presenled in Sullivan Audilorium and al Genesee Slale Teachers College by The Genesee Valley Choral Socie+y and The Sampson Choral Sociely. The lalrer group, organ- ized by Mr. Leland W. Flora, is composed of Sampson siudenls and members of fhe lacully. ..Messiah. H Sfring Quinfelz ,.-.-...,........e..., ......,.k.. , ..-. , l l 1 if W