West Side High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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ARTHUR HILL SYMPHONY CLUB Among the various organizations of the school we number a musical club which aims, not to instruct in music, but to give plea- sure to its members through singing together. This club which is un- der the able supervision of Mrs. Kate L. D. Miller, is known as the Arthur Hill Symphony Club. The officers are as follows: President — Miss Adeline Stewart. Vice-President — Miss Ruth Biesterfeld. Secretary and Treasurer — Lizette Diebel. Any girl of the High school who signs our constitution may join us. Mrs. Miller and Miss Pfieffer are the faculty members. The club has been quite pdpular during this, its first year, hav- ing appeared before the public five times. The first appearance was made at the Philomathic Society, the next at the Farmers ' s Insti- tute, which was held at the Auditorium, and then at the Oratorical Contest. On April 16, the Symphony Club united with the H. H. of H. H. and gave an operetta, The Spinsters Club , at the Michigan Ave. Baptist Church, which proved to be a success in presentation as well as in a financial way. So successful was this entertainment that we repeated it at the Fordney Ave. Baptist Church with simi- lar success. Judging from the remarks of hearers, the singing was favorably received. The ehab is planning to close a very enjoyable and successful year with a banquet. Since a number of the members of the club are Seni ors there will be some change in the personnel of the club next year but we expect that others will enter and fill the vacant places so that thin work, now nicely begun, may be carried on and become a strong or ganization.

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Our motto which was accepted at this meeting was ' ' Clean Speech, Clean Habits, and Clean Athletics. It was moved that we have more friendliness between Saginaw High School and Arthur Hill High School, a measure which although adopted seemed un- necessary for many members of the Club were Saginaw men, and as 1 far as hostilities between the two schools were concerned, none ever existed. At the fourth meeting on February 22, 1915, Mr. Gault of Flint told his experiences while traveling through Europe on a motor- cycle at the time war broke out. On April 16, the sixth and last meeting was held. Dr. A. R. McKinney, Mr. Lloyd Crane, and Mr. J. E. Anderson gave final talks on their respective business positions and gave the members of the Club some sound advice on how to begin life in the Business World. The Club has been a success throughout and those who neglect- ed to join or attend the meetings surely lost something which they will never be able to replace. Many fellows will be able to look back on their school days and say with pleasure. ' Outside of good Arthur Hill itself there is only one place where I learned as much as in school. That was at the High School Club.

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The Girls ' Club was organized in October, 1912. The object of the club is to make the girls better acquainted with one another, and to encourage a stronger school spirit. The club has now been in existence three years and its object is being successfully carried out by the members. The officers for the club this year are : President — Geraldine Graves. Vice-President — Pearl Proestel . Secretary and Treasurer — Jennie Dembinski. Faculty Advisors — Miss Morgan, Miss Wells. Advisory Board: Senior — Marguerite Smith Junior — Ruth Biesterfeld. Sophomore — Lura Wylie. Freshmen — Evelyn Needham, Flotilla Warren, Tina Lor- enzen. On September 23, the club held a meeting in the ninth grade session room, for freshmen only. The object of the meeting was to enroll new members for the club. Miss Graves, president, gave an excellent talk on the object of the meeting. Miss Proestel gave an exceedingly good talk on how the club was organized. Miss Morgan then gave a very interesting talk on the object of the club, and what the club had accomplished during the past year.