St Mary of the Assumption High School - Assumpta Yearbook (Brookline, MA)

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S Drum Corps The lirst time the Drum Corps met this year was to bid farewell to their beloved director, Rev- erend Michael J. Durant. A Week later Reverend James McManus took over the duties and rehearsals started immediately. Each Mon- day evening from seven until nine the bugles and drums could be heard as the girls endeavored to improve themselves. The Corps marched to many football games and received a hearty welcome from the visitors as well as the home team. Indeed the strains of music often urged the boys to greater victory. The music instructors Mr. Haw- kins and Mr. Grady worked won- ders with the corps this year to produce a medley of some of the well-known operas. About the first of April, Father McManus secured for us the Irvington Street Armory. Every Thursday night the girls practiced under the guid- ance of Sergeant Frank Walker. The members are aiming high this year because they hope to bring back the Diocesan Bugle and Drum Corps Championship in June. After being placed second every year for the past three years it will be a thrill for them if they win the trophy this season as did the Class of 1938. The Senior members of the Corps are: Faye Gallimore, Doro- thy Duston, Mildred Coakley, Virginia White, Ruth Molloy, Mildred D'Argenio, Barbara Ma- han, Mary Burke, and Mary Roche. The members of the Twirl- Virginia Keady Claire Kelly, Eileen Coleman Helen Quealey. FAYE GALLIMORE SLITHP 41 ing Corps are: Faye Gallimore,

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Ensemble and Orchestra Our class certainly has some wonderful singers and several people with excellent musical talent. We were staunch adherents of the dictum that music is coming more and more into its own. And Well it may! Early in September the Assump- ta Ensemble and the Orchestra with its swelling ranks assembled weekly for that practice which was to make the musical programs for the year delightful and pleas- ing. Sundays in autumn found us tuning up for the girls' league debates. December brought our musical program at the boys' Annual Oratorical Contest here at our own school as well as the Diocesan Prize Debate at Boston College. The combined musical units, Orchestra, Glee Club and the Sanctuary Choir gave the musical interpretation of the pag- eantry during the Christmas Can- tata. January brought our second ven- ture into the production of a musical comedy. The Senior talent was distributed between The Caunf and the Co-ed and The Bellr of Bmuja- luir. Outstanding soloists were Betty Cassidy, Margaret Barrett, and john Donovan. The Senior boys organized the group pictured at the top of this panel and known as the Southern Six. Margaret Kelly '40 was the pianist when the group played at Putterham Meadows, and broad- cast over the radio. It was with much enjoyment that we made the little trips. Spring Concert and re- cital! This was :hc event of im- portance. M. COAKLIZY 55

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Glee Clubs Rehearsal at St. Cecelia's hall has become a familiar saying to the one hundred forty-two mem- bers of the Glee Clubs. At the be- ginning of the scholastic year it was arranged to have Girls' Glee Club on Monday afternoon and the Boys' Club on Tuesday. Mar- garet P. McGourty and John V. Curry were elected to the presi- dency of their respective groups. Very successful programs were arranged for the Mothers' Club Social and again at the Christmas Cantatag there were also musical interludes at the League Debates as well as soloistsg and finally there was the Spring Concert held May 25, 1941. Special studio practice brought some excellent musical talent to the foreground. The few privi- leged to be choir soloists were: Dorothy Duston, Barbara Reed, Margaret Barrett, John Donovan, John Stuart, John Oliver and Claire Kelley. judging from the beautiful voices found in the Sanctuary Choir and the excellent knowledge of music prevailing in that group there will be talented singers in Brookline for years to come. The spring concert and musical included forty-six numbers among which the outstanding numbers were: Ave Maria, Girls' Glee Clubg The Mamzrtefjy Garden by the Boys' Glee Club and Sanctuary Choirg Negra Spirituulr by the Boys' Glee Clubg Flower Clmrur by the Girls' Glee Clubg and Unfold Ye Parmlf by the combined Glee Clubs. The Southern Six played popular melodies and the Senior Soloists brought the 1940-1941 music season to a fitting and beau- tiful climax. JOHN IJONUVAN