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

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Music Our sixty-four piece marine band, re- splendent in the new uniforms purchased through last year ' s Band Bounce, comes to attention a moment before boarding the good ship Arthur Hill to embark on the 1938 voyage. Third and first hour band classes tune up for their next public appearance. Tracy Ellis directs the fourth hour or- chestra class. Passengers alternate di- recting. Fifth and second hour choir members rehearse some songs, possibly for the Band Bounce. The a cappella choir, in its Blue and Gold robes, sails along on the high C ' s in the Band Bounce. Rosalie Nagel, Stanley Marks, and Bill Stone are president, vice-president, and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of the BOC Club, consisting of passen- gers seriously interested in music. Each cruise musically inclined marin- ers combine their talents and present one of the highlights of the voyage, the Band Bounce, given this year at the South Intermediate School. Legends 57

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Music Enthusiastic camera fans roaming around the music hall afternoons caught mu- sicians rehearsing. Among the rehearsers were Don Crane and the string sex- tette including Eleanor Fox, Jeanne Brown, Doris Piffer, Virginia Reeder, La- Verne Spyker, and Law- rence Sherbino. Bob Johnson raises the baton to direct the band. Swinging those tunes. Junior Spiekerman is caught at the piano, Milton Schulz at the drums, Bob Rushlow, Bob Johnson, and Bill Stone in the front row with the saxophones, and in the back row the trum- peteers Charles Hlad and Don Crane, while Jim Woolever and Harry Davis swing it on the trombones. Claude Pound, Jim Woolever. Bob Kreiger, Carl Ferriby, Leonard Gui- da, and Don Crane are members of the brass sex- tette. Leonard Guida and Don Crane offer solos on their trumpets. Eleanor Fox, Jeanne Brown, Bill Stone, Alfred Deady, LaVerne Spyker, and Lawrence Sherbino practice for a special en- gagement. Bill Stone and Jack Ja- cobi pause for a minute with their clarinets. The Rhythm Rangers rip- ping out an old cowboy tune are Harold Flack, Jack Johnson, Emil Wissmuel- ler, Roland Neigh, Joe Murdock, and Edward Flack. 56 1938

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c ommercial On the commercial deck, passengers acquired skill in typing, shorthand, book- keeping, commercial law, salesmanship, advertising, and transcription for use on the business sea. Leading the typing 4 classes are Marion Frisch, with 65 words a minute; Helen Bilsky with 64; Doris Fischer and Jacqueline Kretz with 63; Olga Stanko with 60; and Lorine Geyer, Dorothy Niederquell, and Alice Fleischmann with 59. Shirley Thurlow, typing 2 passenger, made the score of 60 words a minute. Ann Baskow, Elvira Bierlein, Grace LaFlair, Ellen List, Betty Markey, Genevieve Markey, and Madeline Railling were the first passengers to pass the 120 word theory test in transcription and to receive certificates. Rachel Quackenbush, transcribing her shorthand notes. Passengers interested in commercial arithmetic spent time every day on deck working problems in auditing, averages, fractions, decimals, and aliquot parts. The Student Union candy store is manned by advance bookkeepers. This voyage Gottie Bieri, Donald Detwiler, June Mackie, Betty Markey, Helene Nagel, Marion Prinz, Betty Specht, Elfrieda Gremel, and Marjorie Stenroos doled out candy bars in return for nickels and dimes. Ruth Kile, center picture, works at her book- keeping set. Ten salesmanship students left the old tub Annex to gain actual experience in Saginaw stores. During the last laps of the voyage, thirty to fifty minute sales talks and demonstrations could be heard in the salesmanship stateroom. Bette Wigen, right picture, is typical of shorthand enthusiasts who learned to take dictation rapidly and accurately. Certificates were awarded to passengers passing tests with a minimum amount of errors. 58 193 3