San Ramon Valley High School - Kernel Yearbook (Danville, CA)

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ln f,. , +.?..,...... 5 s 1 7 ts ORCHESTRA AND BAND CX X This year our orchestra and band have shown marked improvement, the result of Mr. Reilly's directing and planning. Both organizations a number of new members this year. have The high school orchestra has furnished music for each of the class plays and for the Christmas Charity Pageant, at which time a string ensemble composed of four violins, cello, and bass viol, playedg four clarinets presented Q number? and the massed orchestra played a medley of Christmas Carols. ' The orchestra has set aside each Monday and Wednesday noon hour to be used for practice The band has been much in demand, and has made its appearance at a Grange meeting and Women's Club Flower Show. The main part of band's work is taken up with college songs, next season we hope that it will be present football games to cheer us on to victory. the the and at all The Band is composed of the following people: CLARINETS: Fred Brear, Peters, Ruth Schoener, Dorothy Sandkuhle, Joe Leland Fereira, Thomas Robert Olsson, Dolores Arven Sebtt, Lyman Stoddard Teicheira. TRUMPETS1 Mayo, Manuel Medina, Arlen Scott, Forest Shaklee. TROMBOEES: Mary Buerer, Norman Harper. EARITCNE: Warren Anderson. BASS HORN: Walter Munroe. SAXOPHONES: Dwight Axtcll, Wendell Axtell, Walter Frick, David Olsson, Elmer Soto. DRUMS: Edward Johnsen, Douglas Kelly, Raymond Sandkuhle, Boris Todoroff. The members of the Orchestra are: VIOLINS: Margaret Alexander, Mildred Frcitas, Anita Jorgen- sen, Lois Kamp, Delbert Main, Dorothy Sandkuhle. CELIO: Vincent Campanale. PIANO: Byrle Caldwell. BASS VIOL: Thomas Mayo. SAZOPHONES: Dwight'axtc11 Wendell Axtell, Walter Fr1cE, David Olsson, Elmer Seto. TUBA: Walter Munroe. TRUMPETS: Manuel Medina, Arlen Scott. TROMBONES: Mary Buerer, Norman Harper. CLARINETSZ Dolores Peters, Ruth Schooner, Lyman Stoddard. DRUM: Boris Todoroff.

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The Fales place used to be the show-place of the valley. You might say it was old-fashioned now, but its still a mighty fine building.lThus be- gan a tale one sprightly afternoon as the salt wind whistled by my ears.7 Old Captain Fales was of a Maine family of sailing men. And for twenty-two years he sailed around from cabin-boy to master, from the Indies 'n China back to Eu- rope and California, without a And then in '77 he came ashore mishap mind you. for good, tore down his old log cabin he'd built in '52, and built that beauty there on the solid rock. The lumber was brought down from Napa county by ox- teams, and I imagine Martinez for there's a very fancy style. the sea. And though ship it was a hoodoo of reach of swinging as he surveyed the country, as the mill work was done in a good deal of it, being But Orris-Fales was made for he'd never sailed a hoodoo. place he'd built. He was out jibs, but one fine July day was his wont, from the windmill tower he was struck by a swinging blade and thrown to the earth. nearby hill, but he's not high and I'll bet when the night is wind is screeching through the and rattling the shutters he's door and is standing out on th atop the roof, searching the h brass glass, eh? His Voice wa his face close to mine. But o tinued matter-of-factly, no on sort of thing any more--do you He lies on a enough even there stormy and the bare black branches lifted the trap- at little platform orizon with his old s almost a whisper, f course, he con- e believes in that ? he smiled.

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- as.-V.. Y- -. .. ,..nu-1-v-. V . ,-,.,,l,,,. . 7 Yi GLEE CLUB This year Girls' Glee Club increased 1002 over that of last yearg and with the added voices and the desire to sing, the result has been very gratifying. Before orchestra was well organized the entire music load fell on the girls, but this year we have had more time for actual instruction therefore producing better choral numbers. The Boys' Glee Club was organized at the request of several boys in school who saw the need for vocal work as well as orchestral training. Although they have made few public appearances, the boys feel that the year has been valuable to them resulting in some ability to read music and to exercise their vocal abilities, There have been three special musical programs this year. Early in the Fall, the girls' glee club and a massed chorus of the boys' and girls' glees, furnished music at intervals during the afternoon and evening, at the Women's Club Flower Show. ' At the Christmas Charity Show, the combined groups produced the sacred Christmas Cantata, nThe Child Jesusn, which gave opportunities for solo and duet work as well as five choruses. The last public appearance of the whole of the Glee clubs was for the May Music Festival, when the boys made their first appearance very successfully as a Boys' Glee Club. The girls also gave three fine numbers. As a finale that day, the massed choruses sang, accompanied by the school orchestra. A selected group of twelve from each organ- ization forming a mixed Glce Club have entertained successfully, especially at the Jordon Oak Pilgrimage and at Women's Club affairs, such as the dedication of the John Muir Park on Mt. Diablo. Each year seems to bring added interest to each musical organization within the school.