West High School - Rodeo Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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GIRLS' GLEE CLUB The Girls, Glee Club of YVest High is directed byi Bliss Lucille Cully. It is her aim to keep at least forty girls in the club at one time. The uniforms are white regulation middy suits, black ties, white slippers and hose. - To be eligible to the club one must have had at least one year's training in a chorus class, preferably two years. At the end of each semester those having an average of B thruout the term receive a music W. After one has completed a year's services in the club and has made one public appearance she is entitled to a Glee Club pin. Last year, 1923-Z-l, the combined boys' and girls' clubs gave a concert, consisting of a skit by the boys and a few miscellaneous numbers by the girls, finishing with an Indian cantata, both clubs dressed in Indian costumes. This year the program consists of a concert featuring a cycle of seasons, a plantation scene, a Spanish street scene with fitting costumes and songs. The club this year has sung at the Portage hotel for the Lions, Kiwanis, and Rotary Clubs, and at the City Club. At Christmas time several members assisted the Y. W. C. A. in their Christmas cantata. The aim of the organization is to acquire a taste for good music, to be able to interpret it intelligently and to learn its fundamentals, also to appreciate the artistic efforts of others. ' MEMBERS Front row: Margaret Seidel, Dorothy Snyder, Irene Edelson, Jean Cohen, Grace Button, Miss Cully, Frances McGrath, Helen Baer, Betty Newton, Florabel Scudder. Second row: Virginia Glover, Elsie Porter, Dorothy Birkenfeld, Helen Hubel, Margaret Nieman, Anna Langerman, Anna Snyder, Joan Wells, Flora McMullen. Third row: Dorothy Hamlin, Emogene Dyson, Helen Bork, Annabel Cranz, Betty Harding, Elsie Kuntz, Helen Christman, Sophia Cohen, Anna Dashevsky. Back row: Dorothy Blower, Henrietta HUDD. Mary Wiseman, Geraldine Woloveck. Louisa Beile, Mary Kroeger, Priscilla Guinther, Sela Clement, Dorothy Hovey. Not in picture: Martha Dobkin, Clementine Eekrode, Jean Stelling, Miriam Holub, Elsie Huber. BOYS' GLEE CLUB The Boys, Glee Club, an organization which has long been a credit to the school, is now under the direction of Rliss Cully. The purpose of the club is to stimulate interest in and love for good music: to familiarize students with the best of musical compositions: to discover and encourage talent: to provide students with employment for leisure hours. The club aims to be constantly in readiness to sing for any of the school affairs when their'services are requested. In collaboration with the Girls' Glee Club they have been devoting much of their time toward the prepartion of a concert. Charles Newhart is the president of the club. MEMBERS Front row: Paul Seidel, Ralph Auten, Glen Wert, Miss Cully. Quirk Scudder, Sidney Winer. Wayne Hull. ' Second row: Raymond Bahler, Claude Sahm, Wentworth Shackleton, Harold Staats, Clark Tripcony, Louis Sparber, Marvin Tishcoff. Third row: Floyd Stahl, Ralph Erra, Howard Guinther, Benton Dales, Edward Korach, John Geis. Back row: Douglas Reid, Philip Wallace, Charles Newhart, Rolland Chenot, Ira Garver, Herbert Day, Ted Kirk, Clayton Bachtel, Al DeSure, Raymond Kerwin, Russel Myers, George Alden. Ons' Hundred and Scfvrn

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H l-Y C-LU B The Hi-Y Club of lVest High school was organized in the fall semester of 1923. About a year later it was reorganized and commenced to show signs of real life. There are now twenty-eight members in the club. Although there are numerous clubs in YVest High, there are very few which bear especial emphasis on the development of Christian character. Their motto is: to create, maintain and extend throughout the school and community high ideals of Christian character and living. The club has done many things in the school of a constructive nature, such as: Bible study class, boosting the school bank and interviewing the' freshmen. Still greater fields of effort are planned. OFFICERS Fall semester: President, Hassel Roberts: secretary and treasurer. Ralph Auten. Spring semester: President. Charles Newharfi vice-president. Harold Cochran: secretary and treasurer, Ralph Auten. I MEMBERS Front row: Samuel Bryant, Leonard Dumas, Paul Kline. Hassel Roberts. Reginald MeCreary, Maurice Evans, Roger Meadows. Second row: Abner Rosenfeld, Ralph Auten, Frank Eckroad, VValter Hatch. William Willoughby. Copeland Gladwin, Harold Cochran. Back row: Mr. Flood, Ted Herman, John Gill, Howard Harpster, Glen Crummel, Charles Newhart, Mr. Piehl, Fred Hatch, Robert Pearce. . Not in picture: William Clinedinst. Delbert Gibson, Alpheus Marty, Paul Miller, Marshall Weri1ei'. Paul White. CEXSOXVE The Censowe Club is an organization of the National Girl Reserves. ,lt gets its name from the initial letter of Central, East, South and lVest. Through a four- fold program of I1'ork, Play, Service and Inspiration, these clubs are developing ideals of Christian citizenship. Bi-monthly meetings, classes, inspirational and social affairs have created a spirit of fellowship among the scattered hundreds of Akron's high school girls. Among the active things West Censowe did in the past year was to provide gifts for the poor children at Xmas time and selling pencils and caps at lVest. Slogan: To Face Life Squarelyf' Purpose: To Find and Give the Best. OFFICERS OF 1924 5 President, Alma Betteridge3 vce-president, Mildred E. Graham: secretary, Catherine Louise Hahn: treasurer, Thelma Vellenoweth: program committee. Dorothy Hower: ring committee, Florence Aker: world fellowship committee, Floice Vellenoweth: social committee, Annabelle Cranz: athletic manager, Marion Voges: historian, Pauline Meyers: council member, Irene Keener. One' Hundrfd and Nine