St Johns High School - Torch Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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ROOMS X-31 and X-13 GIRLS’ CHOIR Back Row —Joan Sharpe, Bernice Block, Ruby Rosenheck, Shirley Spegal, Fay Simpkin, Pauline Burka, Ruth Golden, Phyllis Geller. Ida Badkis. Third Row —Gayle Taciuk, Joan Kanchier, Joanne Manson. Peril Tenembaum, Sima Zaelig, Joan Triller, Jenny Moser, Evelyn Cantor, Sheila Sigesmund, Estelle Greenberg. Second Row —Gladys Waldman, Beverly Soloway, Hope Oetsky, Eleanor Simpkin, Shiffy Weinberg, Shirley Piggott, Rose Lavitt, Sybil Jacob, Gloria Swartz, Rose Spivak. Front Row —Mae Olynik, Irene Bruce, Nancy Dolgoy, Shirley Rombom, Joan Mike, Rhona Ostrow, Helen Taylor, Verna Krayeski, Elsie Perlman, Selma Levine, Noma Jacobson. SMALL ENSEMBLE Back Roic —Maxine Carter, Shirley Cohen, Adeline Wdoviak, Belva Boroditsky, Marion Holliday, Shirley Spegal. Front Row —Rita Pleskow, Sheila Rittberg, Ester Ludwig, Joyce Bowen. ENSEMBLE Back Row —Greta-Lois Freeman. Frances Lucow, Mae Olynik, Maria Semeniuk, Roberta Silverman, Lorraine Brethaw, Joyce Bawden. Second Row— Shirley Spegal, Maxine Carter, Marjorie Lees, ShifFy Weinberg, Rowena Rubenfeld, Shirley Cohen, Adeline Wdoviak, Malke Lerner. Front Row— Marguerite Mason, Belva Boroditsky, Sheila Rittberg, Ester Ludwig. Rita Pleskow, Selma Levine.

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FESTIVAL Perhaps the most important event to take place for the music group at Tech is the Mani¬ toba Musical Festival. Each year thousands ol music students throughout Manitoba compete in this, one of the world’s finest musical festivals. St. John’s has very capably done its share in contributing its best to this enterprise. Actually the students get more from the festival than they contribute. What wonderful sensations they must have felt to hear themselves making such beautiful sounds in songs like “The Sky is Full of Clouds” and Mendelssohn’s “Lift Thine Eyes, and to hear the beautiful sounds coming from the competitors. In the competition of the large H igh School Female Choirs the groups were transported into a dream-world of beautiful sounds like those that must come from choirs of angels. So absorbed were they in these sounds that all feeling of competition was lost. This is how the festival should be. At this point, the festival had attained what must be its ultimate goal that of producing the most beautiful and perfect music. As usual, work for the festival began quite late due to the opera most of the choirs had’ only three weeks’ training. There were four choirs and an ensemble entered from St. John’s. The ensemble won the “Small Vocal Ensemble—Any Voices” class with 88 for “Music When Soft Voices Die” and 89 for Laughter and Tears.” The combined R° oms and,3p won the “Grade Ten Class Room Choir class with 88 for “Autumn Song and 89 for Lratner ing Daffodils.” The Grade XI Folk Song Choir won its class with 90 ,for “ T he old 92 for “Gypsy Dance. The Female Giade C choir won its class with 87 for “O Lovely Peace and 92 for “Swift as a Bird. large girls’ choir did not win the “Public School Chorus—Senior Schools—Female Voices, they did gain the highest choral mark for one of their p cSThat was given that evening. The marks were 90 for “Lift Thine Eyes” and 94 for The Sky is Full of Clouds.” Among the individuals winners are: Shiela Rittberg and Rita Pleskow who won their class, obtaining 90 and 92 for “Blossom Time ; Cor¬ nelia Gayowsky, pianist, who won the Piano¬ forte— ' Senior Class” with 86 and 88, and also the “Concert Group of Three Pieces class woth 85 and 88 marks; Shirley Cohen and Max Klein who won “Gilbert and Sullivan Operatic Duet class with 87 marks. St John’s has been very fortunate in having such a fine teacher as Miss Horner to inspire and teach the students. Her fine work received great praise from the festival adjudicators. GRADE XI-39, FOLK SONG CHOIR Back Rou —Libbye Connor, Fay Garfinkle, Naomi Shubin, Dorita Koplovich, Norma Robinson. Jean Skinnerf Hilda Hiebert, Beverly Stein, Eileen Rasmanson, Dolores Smigle, Edith Kneller. Molly Fairman, Yvonne Sawchuk. Third Row —Edith Kushner, Leda Gatmenenko, Mickey Levine, Judy London, Enid Calof, Debby Slobh ky Maria Seminuk, Marg. Lees, Grace Safeer, Gloria Atmkov, Ray George. Second Row -Greta Lois Greeman, Ruth Zlotin, Ann Gunn Carolin Korbailo, Vera Nelson, Rita Silverman Pat Dybish. Helen O’Lasker, Belva Boroditsky. Front Row Francis Lucow, Malke Lerner, Esther Green, Sheila Ritberg, Rita Pleskow. Freda Rabkin. Rowena Rubinfield. Page One Hundred

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THE FAIR Peanuts! Popcorn! Try your luck. Chance wasn’t the deciding factor the way the boys ran the games, but that doesn’t mat¬ ter: the school made money ($1,800, to be approximate). Cash was flowing like water. We made millions, but we aren’t telling, just to fool the income tax tribe. Seriously, though (if that is possible for us), everybody combined to make a great success of the Fair. This continuous suc¬ cess story may be getting rather boring to our patient readers, but it didn’t just hap¬ pen. Students spent days of “skipped” periods preparing articles to sell, and fig¬ uring out the games which would yield the best profit. Teachers organized these will¬ ing workers during noon hours and legal spares. Most important of all, the residents of the Tech district saved up their pennies all year just to squander on all the various booths. The places the money could be spent were numerous. You could be “rooked” easily by the booths in the gym; get about 150% of your money’s worth by buying in the auditorium; indulge in your gour¬ met tendencies in Room 18 and the nurse’s room, and be awed by the wonders of sci¬ ence in Room 40. If we haven’t stressed the fact sufficiently already, the Fair was a big success. 1. The Fair is opened. 2. Some old schoolmates? (Class of 1909). 3. Hello, Mrs. Magee. What would you like? 4. Followers of Isaac Walton. 5. George, Garnet, William Penn. 6. Intelligentsia, playing with electrons. 7. Where did the sugar come from? 8. Hi, gang! 9. “We were hungry.” Page One Hundred and Two