Washburn University - Kaw Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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T GLEE CLUB MUSIC SCHOOL With six faculty members and an exceptionally large freshman class, the Music Department is maintaining its standards of previous years despite present world conditions. The Band, which despite the restricted hours of the Nav men has carried a fairl com lete instru- Y , Y mentation, has been a big help in adding to the pep at football and basketball games. The Chapel Choir, composed of students from the entire uni- versity, made its first appearance of the year in the Christmas assembly where it sang three anthems and led the assembled students in singing Chrismas carols. Highlighting the program was the traditional singing of The Twelve Days of Christmas by Dean Pratt. The Womens Glee Club is working on an assembly and a recital which is always one of the high- bland Membm 1 a- Q' s a in Demand Ogfefds-Eizzfif -taxa Siam Ofc .bl A .'z4::5::1'4 Ozs 'Seq ow ?43'f 11 oqa Qiradpls 10 . 'J 5 g3 'i W C.w '49 1C'M.x-w LQv ' .ilwltgi A -mit Navy Free to Don Cossack Chorus . cm.. . MW, 'ju 1,,,,rum ?hf,f, ' Ffl n,::u? MUSIC FACULTY I d 'll L.'ff 'i'-it W' new Select Magi b e C B X09 Gln View 1 boo wr . Y SC mem :APO ,-fy cfetgurhlofllsnyi Page Twenty-two WCMEN S

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The Washburn Art Department received First Award in the State College Art Competition at the Kansas Free Fair this year. Figires, still-lifes and landscapes, as well as work in designs, commercial layouts, posters, Christmas cards and cartoons, were included. First, second and third prizes in amateur oils, and second and third prizes in Water colors went to separate entries by Washburnites. Special free art and educational sound fihns have been featured in the Mulvane Art Museum Theatre this year, open to students, faculty and the public. Exhibits and films scheduled thus fat are as follows: September- The Navy in Action -large photographic exhibit. October- Craftr, Fine Art and Book! from Latin Ameri- can CountrieJ ,' also 100 Sketcber Around the World by Hamilton Wolf, California artist. Technicolor iilms on South American countries. November- ZOO War Defense Posterr from 1943 Na- tional Competition at the Maream of Modern Art, N.Y.C. French film comedy: Carnival in Flandefru with Eng- lish sub-titles. Design course film: Dupont's Fa.flJion Fa'uorite:. December- New Oils in Permanent Collection from Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Auerbach, Kansas City, Mo.: also Illuminated Manarcript Paintingr, VII to XVII C entary Examplerf' Art film: Painting: in New National Gallery of Art, Warla., D. C. Design course lilm: The Magic of Modern Plarticf' and Modern Design in Packaging. january-Photograph Exhibit from Camera Club of St. Louis, Mo. Technicolor films on Mexico. February 1-15- Canadian Printf' and Modern Art in the Morrow Museum. Technicolor films on Canadian Landrcapef' Folk1uayr of Quebec and A Runian conzealyf' February 15-30- The Arts in Therapy from Museum PROF. CHURCH ROBERT ANDERSON VIRGIL BORNEMEIER DINO WILLIAMS STUDIO PAINTING CLASS CLARA KOENIG MARY HORTON WILMA HIGGS STUDIO SKETCH CLASS of Modern Art, N.Y.C. The gallery and theatre programs formed the main part of activities for the Sketch 'Club this year. All films were also shown at the Winter General Army Hospital, and traveling art exhibits were scheduled for both the Hos- pital and the Topeka Air Base. MUSEUM SECRETARY AND ART DIRECTOR OUTDOOR SKETCH CLASS

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is DEAN PRATT REHEARSES 'fi . THE Woonwmos 'iff .Q rdf SH lights of the annual spring recital season. The Glee Club is directed by Mrs. Hansen and is composed of forty members. Deannlra Pratt, director of thebancl and chapel choir and instructor in voice, Professor Paul Hansen, instructor in string and woodwind in- struments and theory teacherg Miss Elledge, teacher of music methods and theoryg Mrs. Paul Hansen, director of the Women's Glee Club and instructor in voiceg Mr. Robert Hays, instructor in organ and teacher of Composition, and Mrs. Schwarz, piano instructor are the members of the faculty. The department employs four student assistants who help with routine tasks in the school -cataloging and repairing music, secretarial corre- spondence, and accompanying. These assistants are: Bertna Weldon, Harriet Gugler, Lloree Woolpert, and Bill English. L1 BE'ITY HEATON Page Twenty-three