Warren High School - Echoes Yearbook (Warren, IL)

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WARREN HI ECHOES= C BAND The Warren School Band is composed of 48 members, playing from a repertoire of standard concert overtures, popular novelties, and marches. Besides the concert band, we have a junior band of 25 members. Throughout the school year the band plays for athletic events and school programs. ft has been the custom of the band to sponsor a carnival each year, the proceeds of which finance the band’s trip to the district band contest. This year the carnival was held on Valentine’s Day, the halls being decorated with strings of red and white paper hearts. The first attraction of the evening was an hour long “Variety Show” held in the assembly. Then after the usual carnival stunts, danc- ing in the elaborately decorated gym, closed the evening. A band concert was given at the high school shortly before the band entered the district band contest at Forivston. We were all very proud when the band under the excellent direction of Mr. Rundle, won a first division rating and were thus entitled to compete at the state band contest at Glen Ellyn on May 3rd. Our four band soloists, Gordon White, Beulah Reader, Harriett Leverton and Celvin Jones all rated well enough to be eligible for the State Contest at Glen Ellyn. Gordon was not able to attend because of illness but Delvin and Harriett rated second and Beulah rated third. In addition to contest work preparation for the county music and literary festival kept the band busy. MIXED CHORUS ACTIVITIES The most important project of the mixed chorus this year was the Christmas pageant, “Christmas Greetings,” written and directed by Mr. Rundle. '1 his was presented in a series of tableaus framed as Christmas cards. One of the most impressive scenes of the pageant was that of choir boys singing in front of an effectively lighted stained glass window made by Mr. Wainwright. The spring activity of the mixed chorus was participation in the County Music and Literary Festival. SPEECH ACTIVITIES The 1940 local literary contest was held in the high school auditorium on Tuesday evening. March 25. The following students entered and were judged by teachers from Winslow High School. Oratory: Paul Simmons. 1st place; Carson Balbach, 2nd place. Original Oratory: Elwood Hanson, 1st place. Verse Reading: Mary Jane Zeigle. 1st place; Mary Ellen Price. 2nd place. Dramatic: Marjorie Beecher, 1st place; Pauline Jones, 2nd place; Mar- jorie Murray; Francis Eckerman. Humorous: June Kupersinith, 1st place; John Balbach, 2nd place; Dorothy Beyer. One Act Play: The cast of “Submerged,” by Cottman and Shaw, was as follows: Franklin Leverton, Richard Enright 0. J. Smith, Robert Andrews, John Rowe and Gordon White. On April 4 and 5 the first place winners in the local contest and the one act piev srroup competed in the sub-district contest at Freeport, where Paul Sim- mons, Mary Jane Zeigle. and the one act rlav east won the right to compete in the district contest in DoKalb. There Paul won first place in G’lass B and second in the whole «roun and Mary won second in Class B. The one act play cast which received a B rating kept up the old stage tradition, “the play must go on,” Paul cobstituting after two hours of intensive work in the place left vacant by Gordon White’s illness.