Waverly High School - Novel Yearbook (Waverly, OH)

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GLEE CLUB Donated by CHARLES SHRADER

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ANNUAL 5TAFF Donated by J. R. McCORMICK D. J. SCHWARDT

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Band The first instrumental group in Waverly High School was formed in 1928. At first it was a small group numbering about eight persons. As the demands for instruction grew, the teaching of instruments was made a permanent part of the music curriculum of the schools. This organization has increased rapidly in membership until this year there are fifty-eight students in instrumental work. This number far surpasses that of other years. There are two groups of instrumental students: A junior and a senior band. The junior band is composed of students below the seventh grade and those in high school not far enough advanced for the senior band. At present this group numbers thirty-three. The senior band has forty-one members; some of the senior band arc also in the junior band. Uniforms, consisting of black capes lined with orange, and military style caps, were purchased this year for the first time. The band is paying for their uniforms by giving concerts and by playing for fraternal organizations. The band is a very active unit in the school, furnishing music for many basketball games, chapel programs, the Eagles Lodge, and many other occasions. The annual spring concert was given March 19, 1937. IX THE PICTURE ARE: First Row — Charles Shrader, director: Paul Donald Weiss, George Diley, Virginia Armbruster, Henri Logan. Phil Bembower, Herbert Brown, Carl Way, Jimmie McCoy, Paul Dixon, Bobbie Jones, Earl Litterst. Malcolm Oyer, Martha Jane Reiser. Second Row — Wynona Oyer, Wilma Smith, Esther Mae Reiser, Durland Workman. Clara Belle Ray, Bobby Scott, Frank Samson, Joan Jones, Jake Ralfs, Jack Yahraus, Jean Whitten, Marie Peery, Donald Maple. Bob Armbruster, Paul Myers. Third Row — Orland Ross. Rarl Schmitt. Jean Reiser, Ruth Cutler. Jane Scott, Mary Gertrude Schauseil, John Burling, Dick Stahler, George Armbruster. Fourth Row — Sammy Hamilton. Wesley Peery. Weldon Way, Jimmie Reiser. Catherine Moore, Norma Armbruster, Jane Ewing, Harold Reiser, Jack Maloy, Bob Johnson. Fifth Row — Weldon Bembower, Louis Miller, Robert Trainer, Frank Robinson, Mary Chloe Hamilton, A1 Ralfs, Gene Ware, Jimmie Logan. Sot in Picture — Dean Bembower, Marjorie Ware, Betty Ray. Glee Club The vocal music of Waverly High School has this year been represented by three organizations: girls’ glee club, boys’ glee club, and mixed chorus. Each of the glee clubs has held two rehearsals weekly, while the chorus has met only once. This year is the first time Waverly has had a girls’ glee club since 1932. The enrollment in the present club is thirty. Since many of the girls are either members of the band or private students of some instrument, the reading ability of the group is quite good. Much improvement has been made in blend and balance of parts. Almost all the music sung has been in three parts, and has been representative of the various types of music for girls’ voices. The boys’ glee club, with an enrollment of 19, is a new feature in the Waverly schools. Practically all of the work of this group has been in four parts, and has included spirituals, chanteys, and folk songs, in addition to some recent publication for boys’ glee clubs. Improvement in tone and reading ability has been noted throughout the year. The chorus, a combination of the two glee clubs, this year has an enrollment of fifty. In so far as possible, the choral singing is done unaccompanied, and a well balanced a capella choir is resulting. The chorus and glee clubs presented a concert during April, and will close the activities of the year by singing at the Baccalaureate Services. IX THE PICTURE ARE: First Row — Charles Hoffman. Buddy Bauer. Bernice Mahone, Juanita Heible. Jean Whitten, Edith Pope, Maribelle Hickman, Helen Ware, Robert Reiser, William Scott. Second Row — Henry Murphy. Lester Rapp, Dick Stahler, Dorothy Stubbs, Helen Woods, Weltha Davis. Ruth Trainer, Hazel Cooper, Ruth Ann Emnck, Mary Cooper, Rhetabel Wipert, Opal Oyer. Third Row — Ray Schwartz, Bonadine Hammond. Jane Scott. Donna Jean Smith, Ruth Cutler, Weldon Way, Roberta StambauRh. Bessie D. Moore, James Logan, Gene Ware, Romaine Blair. Fourth Row — Howard Anderson, Wallace Yeager, Billie Deacon. Andrew Lawson, Ruth Woods, Orland Ross, Weldon Bembower, Madison Irwin, Lillian Bauer, Donald Whaley, Ellis Davis. Donated by J. M. MILES Piketon