Teton County High School - Pow Wow Yearbook (Choteau, MT)

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son A glrls quartet composed of Mal garet Jackson Eda Gregoly Helen Gorham and Irene Clealy was olganlzed These two gloups touled the county and gave programs at Dutton Power Fan fleld Bynum and Pend roy The next fall Mlss Wllllamson s effol ts were rewalded by the mterest whlch some of the students took 1n orgamzmg an orchestla Al Banna tyne started the 1dea by gett1ng a saxaphone Lyall Crary and Paullne Jacobson lmmedlately got the c1a7e and IH a short t1me they also had saxaphones Then of a sudden the 1dea became catchmg Cllfford Saterlle and W1ll1am Burns ordered trombones and Harold Crane and Jllll Looney cornets Mr Sweat not to be outdone got a C soprano saxaphone A set of drums were pulchased fol Clark Coffey to practlce on hm and Frances Prldham who already knew somethlng about then 1nst1 uments Jomed F1 ances playlng the clarlnet and Jlmmy playlng the w1ol1n and tenol ban1o The operetta Gypsy Rover was gn en thls year The year 1924 the mus1c department sent replesentatlves to the State Mus1c Meet wh1ch was held at Creat Falls Ap11l 3 4 and 5 Thuty Harrlet Larson sololsts James Pr1dham v1ol1n1st Helen Gorham p1an1st Frances Prldham clar1net1st Glrls quartet Margaret Jackson Har rlet Larson Eda Gregory and Helen Gorham Glrls duet Harrlet Larson and Margaret Jackson Boys quartet Clalk Coffey Ea1lW1gg1ns Har old Crane and B1ll Burns In the fall of 1924 there were two vacancles 1n the ranks of the or chestra J1m Prldham who graduated wlth the class of 24 and Jlm Looney who left our m1dst for Bo7eman Sevex al new faces and many new mstruments were 1n our ranks Phyllis and Lloyd Green 1o1ned the or chestra w1th a trombone and a trumpet Helen Gorham Helen M01 gan Wayne Wood Clarence Stephens and Lawrence Fltzgerald each got a v1ol1n Gwenyn Burch and D2lI'W1I1 Crane trombones Arthur Pealson bamo Patsy Prldham flute and Clalence Stephens French holn There are also two E flat bass horns and one E flat alto hom wh1ch no one has as yet volunteered to play Among the act1v1t1es du11ng th1s year was the Olg3.l'l1Z3.t1011 of the Ukelele Club Thls club composed of g11ls gave sevelal enteltalnments durmg the term The operetta for 1925 was Once ln a Blue Moon It was g'1V6I1 Apr1l 24 l l J .1 l' H W VV ll XY e ' , 1 1 1 ' ' 9 ' y 9 1 y 1 r ' . 4 a v L - s av 4 9 1 ' , , . . ' . . 7 9 . . , , . . y D 1 . , .u . L - y . . , CC 97 ' 7 ' l l Y ' I 2 - 1. 2 1 - . Q . representatives were chosen to go. Among them were Clark Coffey and . y . 3 . , . . . 5 , . . 3 . . . . , . 9 ' ' 1 ' . . , I . 1 1 ' ' , 0 0 1 ' . g L 0 y , '- , . , . I . 1 I . . . , . 1 7 : , k 4 . Q L ! 9 ' 7 S , S ' ' y - 3 ! l I 1 ' I . , .g , , Q . CK ' Y! ' 53 , . .. I K, ,U , , ,

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l' H XX' VN' H W COMMERCTAL DEPARTMENT The commercial department of Teton County High School was es tabllshed IH 1920 with an enrollment of six students In the fall of 1924 the number of students electing the commeiclal coui se had 1nc1 eased to a total of th11ty membels It is a two 5ear course intended pumarily for those students who do not expect to attend a higher 1I'l9lIltLlt101'l of learn mg and who need to go to vsork as soon as then high school education s completed For that reason such students should plan the11 work oi entering high school so that they may take up all the commercial sub1ects offered in the Junior and sen1o1 years Seniors are dlscouraged from en rolllng in this course The subiects taught are shorthand typevsiitlng peiiods of eighty mmutes daily Secretaiial tiainmg or office piactlce lS corielated with the teaching of both shoithand and typewuting The time has long since passed when a commeicial education was considered purely vocational It partakes of the cultuial natuie as tiulv as does the study of English oi a foreign language In addition to this it combmes an element lacking 111 the study of a language 16 that of the quick automatic iesponse to the stimulus of spoken words which comes in the piocess of taking dictation We may confidently look foiwaid to the time when educational authoiitie in 1ll iecognize shorthand as a lan guage study w1th a xalue quite apart hom its xocational nature a specltlc coiielated xalue in helping to establish bcttei usage of lun fllsh . K i ll V I Commercial Department Class I ' L A' .4 .K h Y C , . 1. . I i . s . ' ' 1 ' . ' ' ! 7 and bookkeeping, each of these subjects except shorthand requiring double 1 .... , I . . . 1 . A 1 . . . . .3 , ' L L A' L Y, ' 1. ' , '. ' L v ' 1 , K1 , 1 - 1 ' ' ,- kv 'nw 1 1 S ,- ' 1 in 'Lv . 60 p 1 4, -J 3 A g K sf