St Marys Academy - Sunbeam Yearbook (Amarillo, TX)

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OUR CHORAL CLUB Our Choral Club is one of the most active organizations in the school, it carries the responsibility of caring for the entire student output of sacred and secular music. To carry out this program the more effectively, the Club is divided into two groups. Group I Group ll Seniors, Sophomores and Eighth Grade Juniors and Freshmen Officers President, Frances Bichsel Celia Saunders Vice-President, Joan Funk Judy Delgadillo Sec.-Treasurer, Mary L. Stump Marie Funk Librarians, Mona Meier and Barbara Fleming and R. M. Birkenfeld Sally Quigley Among the Club's duties in Church music might be mentioned the singing of the High and Requiem Masses and Benediction Services in St. Mary's Chapel. Alternating groups sing for High Mass every first Sunday in Sacred Heart Cathedral while the combined groups render the Vesper Services on the afternoon of every second Sunday of the month. On September 8th and 9th the Choral Club sang at the Ordination ceremonies and at the first Mass of Rev. Francis Smyer, at Midnight Mass at the Cathedral Hall, For the Holy Week services at the Cathedral alternating groups sang for Holy Thursday and Holy Saturday with combined groups for Easter Sunday and for the Baccalaureate Services in Sacred Heart Cath- edral on the last Sunday in May. The year's work in secular music was begun by the combined groups' singing for the ordination re- ception of Father Francis Smyer at Cathedral Hall on October 8. On December l7 and l8 St. Mary's Choral Club presented an Operetta, Dickens' Christmas Carol , adapted as a musical play in three acts by Treharne. The cast, choral and dramatic, included the whole student body. In the presentation of the Cantata, Calvary by Wessel-Harding on March 28, and Wind of the West , a cantata, on May 8, the entire high school took part. The year's activities were concluded at the Graduation exercises on May 27, in which the whole Choral Club featured Thanksgiving of God by Hayden. Combined Groups in Presentation of Wind of the West

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FRESHMAN CLASS- COMING ALONG a 5 . Q- 1 H 5 v fr i Y' 1 I ,L VY N -r 4 J Q 4-I ws, , L 32 I ' 1 , Q 3 sis cv . A0 Y , 3 ,Q 'ga First row: Marianne Gerber, President, Mary Ellen Payton, Vice President. Second row: Reita Carney, Treasurer, Betty Carney, Dora Koenig, Laura Koenig, Patricia Rhodes, Third row: Patsy Parr, Patsy Kelly, Barbara Anne Fleming, Jacqueline Crowell, Mary Theresa Averbeck. Fourth row: Dorothy Doertler, Rita King, Secretary, Mary Ann Roberts, Alice Jane Rietman, Dora Margaret lrlbeck. Fifth row: Sally Jane Quigley, Patsy Valentine, Beverly Prien, Cecilia Poolos, Peggy Jo King. J as Pia

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OUR BACH CLUB R Qlifi ' I The work of the Bach Club has steadily progressed since its inception into the music department two years ago. The members have become increasingly interested in its obiect-the study of the works of the great masters and the acquisition of an appre- ciation for the cultural in music. Early in the session the election of officers was held and to the following was en- trusted the progress of the club: President-Celia Saunders Vice-Presidentflvlarie Funk Secretary-Mary Jo Horn Treasurer-Lucy Gregory Through discussion, interpretations and the reading of biographical sketches their bi-monthly meetings have been productive of much good, encouraging, as they do, the cultivation of native talent and emulating the finer things in life. Not merely have the members added to their record library but by their purchase of a recording machine this year they have made a very definite contribution to the music department. The students have already made several recordings and have experienced the corrective value of this popular instrument. The recording machine has afforded mafny a delightful hour not only to the members of the Bach Club but likewise to their parents and friends. Members of the Bach Club, learning to use the recording machine: Mary Jo Horn tat microphone' is recording a vocal solo which Marie Funk accompanies. qt .I n'r