Summerfield High School - Bugle Notes Yearbook (Summerfield, NC)

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BRnBnR ap The Glee Club, almost forgotten the first four months of the school year, started the New Year with a burst of song and enthusiasm. There were among the thirty-four prospective serenaders several of our faith¬ ful members of the past year who now claim senority and many new and promising voices of underclassmen down through the eighth grade. The first day brought moans and groans when Mrs. Noah,- still Miss Barker to us, announced her desire to have each girl sing alone. Despite the tortuous knocking of knees and trembling of voices that dreadful or¬ deal was soon ended and everyone, having discovered his talent for stage fright, relaxed with a sigh. January, blanketed over with snow and sleet meant no school and no practice for two weeks. By the end of February, however, strains of three part harmony began to float lazily into every corner of the audi¬ torium echoing and re-echoing as it drifted down the halls. Soon everyone began to feel the thrill of such a number as The Years at the Spring in which six brave sopranos tackel a high A and hold it while the second sopranos and altos swell into a magnificent fi¬ nal chord. This number deserved great effort because it was the time the judges would hear when we appeared in the dignity of our black and white robes at the County Contest. This was to be a great contest, the first of it ' s kind in the coun¬ ty. Everyone was excited when a blue streamed chartered bus arrived to transport ' the Glee Club to Allen Jay School near High Point. Thebe they were to compete with twelve other schools in Guilford County. The se¬ lected group, representing Summerfield was determined to represent the school well. The contest was, of course, the highlight of the year,but how could a class graduate from Summerfield without the Glee Club paying its tra¬ ditional tribute in song. Realizing this, the girls all settled down to the hard job of learning Ave Maria in Latin for graduation. It is only through the diligent efforts of the Parent Teachers ' Association that we are able to have the Glee Club and Public School Music in our school, and at this time we wish to extend our sincere thanks to many of the parents and to Mrs. Noah. IVIW-VVXWJZW.. IS® immm.

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a k a a- q a a xw}. u ' t r.,-, First row, reading from left to right: Mrs. Futrell, Ray Rumsey, Wallace Stafford, Jr., Clarence Winfree, Jr., Denzil Whitesides. Second row: Joan Cline, Jean Pearson, Nancy Jo Wilson, Doris Anderson, Barbara Turkett, Bobbie Jo Everett, Catherine Rumley. Third row: Margaret Wil¬ son, Helen Brookbank, Ruth Anne Mabe, Doris Case, Jean Carolyn Somers, Nancy Sizemore. Fourth row: Hazel Stallings, Betty Price, Dorothy Har¬ ris, Vora May Gamble, Linnie Ellen Kelly, Stanley Wilson, Lenna Bowden, Mary Ruth Lowrey, Eleanor Bowden. The piano class of Summerfield School is made up of those students who pay a fee for private lessons from a full-time teacher, Mrs. C. M. Futrell, and the very attractive little room opoosite the principal s office has been reserved as a music room for this purpose. In the class are students ranging from beginners in the earliest stages of A B C ' s to many who have reached such proficiency as to contribute much to the musical life of the school. In the spring,each student performs oublicly in the annual student ' s recital and the more advanced students apoear in public performance from time to time throughout the year, thus affording much pleasure to themselves, their school and their community. '