Steubenville High School - Crimsonite Yearbook (Steubenville, OH)

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INTEIQMISSION - Steubenville l-ligh School Chorus Howard Beclces. Direclor A Our mixed chorus has a membership of sixly This year. This choir is a source of inleresl' 'ro 'rhe enlire school and, also, aids in musical apprecialion. We are cerlain lhal 'rhe pupils of 'rhe school will always recall The Carols as sung by The chorus in our halls ar Chrislmas lime. V Our chorus, as an A Capella Choir. parlicipared in lhe Ohio Valley con+es'r in '38 al Wheeling, and received an Excellenl raling. ln l938 The chorus received The same raling in The dislricl conl'esl'. Three years ago robes were made 'lor This group under 'rhe direclion of Miss Dennis and assisled by 'rhe girls of Jrhe l-lome Economics deparlmenl. ' The choir makes many public appearances lhroughoul 'rhe year lalcing parl in concerls, assemblies, and special occasions. Soloisls and seleclecl groups are also given an opporlunily To enler conlesrs and also To sing before civic organizalions of lhe cily. The presidenr of lhe chorus is Arrhur Livergood.

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4 OVERTUQE - Steubenville High School Orchestre Howard Beclces, DirecTor lT is indeed rare To Tincl bofh quanTiTy and qualiTy in any organizaTion. buT such is The case in respecT To The high school orchesTra. From a membership in V929 oT sixTeen, iT has grown unTil now There are sevenTy-Tive, The largesT membership in iTs hisToryg and sTill iT has gone on To bigger and beTTer accomplishmenTs. T , Long 'before a band was even ThoughT oT, There was an orchesTra in The'school which. under The direcTorship oT John Phillips, played Tor assemblies and The com- mencemenT. Since Then. we have had as direcTors. Hugo Miksch, G. AusTin Kuhns and Howard Beckes. The developmenT oT an orchesTra is necessarily slower Than ThaT of a band as iT Takes much longer To Train The players oT sTring insTrumenTs Than iT does The wind insTrumenTs. ln The lasT Three years. Through The eTforTs oT Mr. Kuhns, addiTional insTrumenTs were added. so ThaT finally The necessary insTruimenTaTion Tor enTrance inTo conTesT was reached. ln The disTricT conTesT in '38 we Tied wiTh Bellaire Tor a second raTing which was The highesT given. ln '39 The orchesTra showed iTs abiliTy by winning a Superior plus raTing in The disTricT and a second or ExcellenT raTing in The STaTe con- TesT in Columbus. This year, on March 29. This organizaTion,gain received a Superior plus raTing in The disTricT conTesT aT Muskingum College. The presidenT oT The group is Ranier DelnTinis: The concerT masTer' is Mario Mancilella. -

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FINALE - - - Steubenville l-ligh School Bond Howard Beclces, Direcior The high-school band is 'rhe pride noi' only of lhe school bul of Jrhe enfire com- munHy. Hs repulaiion 'for Hs abilHy lo play Jrhe loesl' music in The besl manner has exiended beyond Ohio and has pui Sleubenville in The fronl' ranks in high-school bands. - The band now has 90 pieces in Hs conceri organizaiion and lO2 in Hs marching band. All The members of The conceri band are excellenlly irained as has been evidenced many limes in +heir sigh? reading work on boih disiricl and slale coniesis. The Sreubenville band lirsl parlicipaled in a Slaie conresf in i928 al Akron and again in l93l ai' Porismoulh, boih under 'rhe direciion of l-lugo lvliksch. WHh 'rhe coming of G. Ausiin Kuhns in l932 'rhe band won many firslrs and seconds loolh in Disiricf and Siaie coniesis. The high poinlr was Hs parricipafion in Jrhe Naiional ai Ellcari. Indiana, in I938. Mr. Kuhns resigned in '39 'ro go 'lo Findlay. Ohio, and Howard Beclces came +0 Sieulaenville. Our loes+ wishes go fo each of +hem for success in new locarions. This year fhe band was given an a-I ra+ing in The Dislricl coniesf a+ New Con- cord. and laier rcceived a 2+ irafing in Columbus. The band presidenr is Margarei Coupland. Q s sras u if , ., Vg, ii J ffflilll in -iii T X ' ..,i, . 1 l ..,ss 'H '- - -'- Wir 1 -'f..i ...L .iwi : v ' J ii MQQQM if