Waterbury High School - Longhorn Yearbook (Waterbury, VT)

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LONGHORN Girls' Basketball The girls' basketball season came to a close with two wins out of eleven games. These two victories were over Bradford. Although the girls did not have a very successful season, the outlook for the next couple of seasons seems to be encouraging. Forwards, Nancy Meaker and Gwendolyn Miller, along with guards, Carolee Guptil and May Holmes, have steadily improved throughout the season and should do much towards strengthening next year's team. Many members of the team will have two or three years of playing ahead of them. The forward line this year wasn't too strong due to the fact that the girls lacked the necessary experience. High scorer for the season was Nancy Meaker with 73 points. It is interesting to note that Gwen Miller, who played forward in only three and a half games, scored 33 points for an average of 9.4 points per game. The guard section showed marked improvement, especially in develop- ing an eiective zone defense. Our most sincere thanks go to Miss Royer for the fine coaching. She has worked hard all year with us and we appreciate the hard work she has put into it. I also wish the best of luck for next year's squad, which will have Ann Millington as captain. - ALICE ADAMS, Captain.

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LONGHORN Girls' Basketball Team Front Row: Second Row: Nancy Meaker, '54 Miss Royer - Coach Paulita lzor, '53 Gloria Holmes, '54 Alice Adams, '51 - Captain Marie Stanley, '54 Ann Millington, '52 Carolee Guptil, '53 May Holmes, '53 Shirley Jewett, '54 Louise Farmer, '52 Nancy Forbes, '51 - Manager

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LGNGHORN Music Department In the past year, the music department has shown a great deal of suc- cess under the able direction of Mr. Boodakian. The musical groups for the year have been the mixed glee club, the special mixed glee, the girls' glee, the boys' glee, and the girls' sextet. The officers chosen to head the mixed glee club were Richard Williams, president, Sally Spence, vice president, Ann Millington, secretary. The mixed glee club became the General Chorus after mid-years. No credit t.oward graduation was given for participation in this club. The members of the sextet were Selma Izor, Virginia Miles, Sally Spence, Ann Millington, Ramona Belanger and Patricia Herbert. For all these groups, Ann Millington has ably served as accompanist. The school band, which was started in January, has shown a great deal of promise under the supervision of Mr. Boodakian and Mr. Messier. This year, Waterbury has added a new music project to its many activities. Along with the spring concert, Christmas program and All- State festival, the choral groups joined together with the surrounding towns and gave a joint concert which was called the Winooski Valley Festival. This new activity will give to many boys and girls the Festival ex- perience which they may not be able to get at Burlington because so few are eligible to attend All-State. It is hoped that the extra time and effort expended on this new endeavor will be repaid by the better under- standing and greater appreciation of music by the participating boys and girls. THE NEW BAND The band at a month old had two numbers almost memorized and ex- pected to play publicly by May. The greatest job was to get the boys and girls marching and playing at the same time. Some people think that as soon as Yankee Doodle has been mastered on a band instrument, that person is ready for the marching band. On the contrary, after a person has been studying privately for at least six months, he may be able to sit in with the band. It then takes about six months to a year to be able to play well together. Then you must spend many months practicing march- ing in order to master the coordination of the feet and music. The whole operation takes the average high school student about two years. We are, however, not dealing with high school but mainly elementary and junior high students. Therefore, it takes longer to get organized. However, this group has been coming along unusually fast and much is expected from them. We hope that by 1952 we will be able to field a band, majorettes, and the whole kaboozle that goes with it. 1 MR. CHARLES BOODAKIAN.