University of the Incarnate Word - Logos Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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In the full range of student group activities there is no difference between capability and incapability of performance more painfully manifest to the observer than the disparity between a capable and an incapable college orchestra. Hence the acclaim that lovers of music, the critical and the merely sensible alike, most gratefully render to the I. W. C. Symphony Orchestra. its conductor, Florian E. Lindberg, its members, and its sponsors. The critics commend it highly in their judgment, the tastefully sensible praise its singular excellence. Though it be impossible to record here the several offerings of the orchestra during the year, a few are mentioned as typically memorable. The concert of J anuary 12, With Gertrude Schafer as solo pianist, was met With enthusiastic public response. Not less noteworthy was the playing of the orchestra in the program of the Metropolitan Singers, J anuary 1,9', and at the reception, by faculty and students, March 26, of their Excellencies , the Most Reverend Archbishop Lucey, of San Antonio, and the Most Reverend Archbishop Cicognani, Papal Delegate t0 the United States. In the formal concert Which concluded its brilliant season, 1940-41, the symphony organization presented as solo pianist Mari Katherine Vincius, gradu- ate of the school of music. The personnel of the orchestra is as follows: String SectionaeElsie Habluetzel, Daisy White, Ozelle Rogers, Strelsa Hearne, Joan Vance, Margaret Geyer, Mary LeNell Karnes, Iona Roesler Tronson, Maria Galanos, June Volentine, Elizabeth Aman, Emily Beier, Margaret Perrin Hoch, Margaret Mary McCann, Mildred Norton, Gertrude Schafer, J oyce Sauermilch, Ann Evelyn Andrews, Barbara Bilbert, Patsy Brittain. Woodwind Sectionz-Jacqueline Coffey, Ethel Wagner,Li11ian Erlich, Jane Nelson, Thelma Lucas, Margaret Smith, Anna Puck, Dorothy Zoeller. Brass SectionzeeMaxine Whitten, Alethea Politis, Elvi Lou Guerra, Martha Gulley, Zelime Lytle, Betty Albin, June Pike, June Davis, Shirley Hagens, Ruth Tiner. Percussionze Aurelia Tribble, J ean Nash, Betty Snyder.

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FIRST ROW:;Betty Albers, Helene Brynston, Maxine Brynston, Rita. Ruth Carlin, Virginia Collins, Elaine Coutret, Jean Craig, Gail Davis, Wilma Dul'den, Mary Early, Helen Edelstein, Martha Franza. SECOND ROW: eMarguerite Gaines, Jane Garvey, Lucy Starr Grider, Elvi Lou Guerra, Nellie Mae Hasler, Emma Mary Hoch, Mildred Hoffer, Susan, Ill, Mary Frances Jackson, Betty Jean Lamm. Laverne Laurent. Le Claire Leslie. THIRD ROW:eJoyce Littlepage, Lucy Gold Lytle, Zelime Lytle, Margaret Mary Mc- Cann, Gertrude Martin, Margaret Mullins, Anita Nordan, Clare Notzon, Nancy Oden, Amory Oliver, Elizabeth Oliver. Peggy Pagenkof. FOURTH ROW:ePatricia Pickering, Anna Puck, Virginia Richter, Mary Kathryn Russell, Gertrude Schafer, Marian Seng, Ann Stewart, Frances Thomas, Frann Thulemeyer, Daisy White, Maxine Whitten, Katherine Zuberbueler, Gertrude Zuberbueler. 74W Edie Sigma This sorority is distinctive among the organizations of the collegiate community in that its fundamental purpose is to establish and cultivate the harmonious enterprise of personal and social relations among those students who have signally devoted themselves to the institutional development of this purposed order. The society has sponsored several memorable events in 1,940 - 1941. First in the years program was the rush tea, given in the home of Elvie Lou Guerra, to which each member invited three guests. The pledge service for eleven prospective members, October fourteenth, was the prelude to the formal service six weeks later. Then the pledges were introduced at the dance for freshmen, October sixteenth. At the luncheon given at the St. Anthony Hotel, December fourteenth, in honor of the newly enrolled members, each of the initiates was pre- sented with a gold chain and pendant bearing the Greek letters of the sorority. Subsequent to this occasion, the newly admitted members were hostesses of the Christmas party in honor of the older members, at the home of Gail Davis. A second group of pledges, received February twenty-eighth, were formally initiated six weeks after installation. With the annual dinner dance at the Gunter Hotel May tenth, the eventful year was brought to a happy conclusion. Officers, 1940-1941, are reported as: Clare Notzon, president; Gertrude Martin, Vice-president; Zelime Lytle, secretary; Mary Katherine Russell, treasurer; and Frann Thulemeyer, sergeant-at-arms.

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nzlnd the night shall be filled with music, 1171!! the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as xile'ntly steal azmty. One supposes this jewelled thought to have inspired, in part at least, the founders and promoters of the College Choral Society, an organization made up of music students and stu- dents who love music even though they be not formally engaged in the study. It is distinctly a ttvolunteer society for bringing the benefits of the best of music and song to those who earnestly appreciate them. To experience the splendid performance of the Organization is to know that its performances are like unto mercy, a genuinely fraternal dispensation, in that, ttlt blesses him that gives and him that takes. One speaks of it as a fraternal dispensation because of the simple and profound verity that the highest human art is essentially frater- nal. Throughout its presentations under the most laudable direction of MY. Petraitis, choristers and auditors share in the occasion of rare delight. If a single offering of the year is to be noted as outstanding, it must be that Of the Easter Cantata. Officers of the Society, 1940-1941, are inscribed as Elsie Hobleutzel, president; Anna Puck, vice- president; Gertrude Schafer, secretary-treasurer; Lucy Gold Lytle, librarian.