Scituate High School - Chimes Yearbook (Scituate, MA)

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Climes 21 ORCHESTRA FiiisT Row: R. Browne, J. Watts, B. (]ole, S. Cliadhoiirne, L. Merritt, E. Merrill. Skcom) Row: Mr. Leach, C. Valine, M. Kilduff, E. Meyers, D. Hollis, J. Mills. NEW ENGLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL 1947 - 1948 Earl Merritt, ' 48 ' I HE New England School Music Festival was held in 1947 at Brattleboro. Vermont on March 19-22. There were present well over five hundred fifty school musicians from all over New England. These were divided into three organiza- tions: namely, the orchestra, of which 1 was a member: the band; and the chorus. The chorus was by far the largest group with about three hundred fifty members. The first three days were divided into three rehearsal periods with lunch and recreation periods in between. These rehearsals, although rather accelerated because of the tremendous anionnt of work to be done in short time, were very enjoyable. The last day there were two con- certs, afternoon and evening, following a rehear- sal in the morning. This year Scituate High was fortunate in hav- ing two delegates to the festival, which was held at South Portland. Maine, in April. Jack Mills of the Junior Class and 1 were accepted. 1 believe that many values are obtained from activities of this kind. One of the most important is learning how to conduct yourself in a large group of students of your own age; others are musical experience, the chance to play in a large group before an audience, and the companionship of students with one interest in coimnon, music

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20 Cfcues BAND First Row: F. Bissell, J. Dwight, J. Taylor, M. Peirce, M. Chase, M. Pratt. Second Row: F. Smith, E. Meyers, D. LaVange, V. Goddard, A. Dunphy, D. Hollis, M. Kilduff, D. Stone. Thihd Row: Mr. Leach, J. Robinson, L. Merritt, C. Valine, J. Mills, R. Browne, E. Merritt, C. Witt, J. Lopes. BAND, ORCHESTRA AND GLEE CLUB AT present our band and orchestra consist of twenty-five members and seven drum ma- jorettes, under the skillful direction of Mr. Donald Leach. Both groups are comparatively small, and many more members are needed to make a better band. Let ' s all see if we can ' t enlarge it so that Scituate High will have a band and orchestra to be extra proud of. The first major occurrence in the band schedule was to play for the blind men at the Children ' s Hospital on September 30. 1947. The perform- ance was very much appreciated. In November the Scituate High band played at the traditional Scituate-Cohasset Turkey day game, which was played on home territory. Having the band play added considerably to the excitement. At the Blue and White Varieties. the all- school production which was held in December, the band and orchestra played selections during the short intermissions. The glee club has now grown to the number of ninety-five pupils. It is divided into three groups, the freshman and sophomore girls, the junior and senior girls, and all the high school boys. Miss Gertrude Reynolds is in charge of all three groups. On the last day of school before Christinas holidays, the girls ' glee club sang Christmas carols in the corridors. This was enjoyed by both pupils and teachers. Recently Mrs. Glenn Wilson, a well-known voice instructor, offered a scholarship to a pupil in the glee club, the scholarship to be one year of free voice lessons. From several who tried out for the scholarship. Mrs. Wilson chose Laura Cerilli as the most talented singer.

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22 KEY CLUB First Row: L. Towle, S. Briggs, J. Flynn, R. Fallon, G. Jacobucci, R. Dunphy, P. Avery. Second Row: Mr. Froberger, adviser, E. Merritt, D. Coombs, E. Veiga, J. Stewart. KEY CLUB Robert Dunphy, ' 48 THE Key Club is an organization of high school boys sponsored by Kiwanis Inter- national. The local Kiwanis Club makes every effort to help us organize and to teach every member of our club rules of friendship and better government. At present the Scituate High School Key Club has eleven members, consisting of Junior and Senior boys who have qualified scholastically. Our president is Ronald Fallon; vice president. Jon Flynn; secretary, Robert Dunphy; and treasurer, Gabriel Jacobucci. The purpose of this club, besides good fellow- ship, is to organize and work in every way pos- sible for the benefit of our school and our com- munity. During the recent basketball season, members of the Key Club were in charge of the sale of tickets at the home games. Our most im- portant contribution to the school so far has been the purchase of a movie camera, which may be used to take pictures of athletic and other events. We have in mind other objectives, such as bleachers, uniforms, and a new field. We hope some day to have every boy in the last two years of Scituate High School a member of our organi- zation. During the year we have received excellent assistance from our principal. Mr. Froberger.