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

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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.

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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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TOP ROW:eAllie May Connolly, Betty Finch, Mary Lawler, Mary Alice Lozano. BOTTOM ROW1eAdeline Lutteringer, Nellie Marie Mueller. Imelda Obriotti, Constance Pollock. m 941w 34ml 30W The Junior Sodality, by commendable enterprise of its officers and cooperation of its members has completed another year of worthy enterprise. Notable among the temporal works of the organization have been the several successful developments of their activities in the Students Mission Crusade. To raise funds for the Propagation of the Faith, the favorite girl contest proved most successful. The Christmas drive for food, clothes, medicines and toys for the poor of the city parishes, the Easter basket drive for the benefit of poor children, the Catholic Literature drive for reading to be allocated to the Army Post and the Donation Drive for refugees of war torn countries, were carried out with creditable results. The Sodalists headed the list in the Oblate Mission Drive for the support of Texas missions, and won first prize in a Catholic Press Exhibit sponsored by the high school division of the C. Y. 0. During several weeks before Christmas, they engaged themselves in making more than two hundred articles of clothing for the babies among the clients of Guadalupe Center. In this center, too, they ministered in the High School Cateche- tical service. During a considerable number of weeks, the Sodalists moreover fulfilled their enterprise of escorting a group of fifty children enrolled by them for attendance at Mass and Catechism classes on Sundays. The devotional activity of the Sodality was consistently sustained in bi-monthly meetings and recitation of the Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, reception of Holy Communion by the members in a body, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, by successive groups, and daily recitation of the rosary, for various, special intentions. The list of officers, 1940-1941, includes the following names: Imelda Obriotti, prefect; Nellie Miller, vice-prefect; .Adeline Lutteringer, secretary; Mary Lawler, treasurer; Betty Finch, Mary Alice Lozano, and Constance Pollock, consultors; Allie Mae Connolly, president of the Students Mission Crusade.