William Mitchell High School - Apogee Explo Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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Is THEME OF CHRISTMAS PROGRAM SOME OF THE Glee Club boys gather around Mr. Archer Hayes and the piano to enhance the spirit of Christmas,

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MEMBERS OF THE Concert Choir add their voices in the Christmas program with such songs at 'AO Magnum Mysteriumu and Lullay My Likingf' MITCHELLS COMBINED CHOIRS blend their voices in What God Ordains is Always Good, by Johann Sebastian Bach. CC 79 A THING OF BEAUTY Choral groups at a new school can be organized only through the help of the school counselors and are built on the foundations laid by the music teach- ers of the schools from which the students are drawn. Such songs as This Little Babe, What Child is This, and 'SSleep of the Infant Jesusl' were sung with enthusiasm in the spirit of the season. How Brightly Shines the Morning Starn was sung by the Girls Concert Choir. The Boys Double- Octet sang Break Forth, O Beauteous, Heavenly Light, and Thee With Tender Care I'll Cherishl' by Bach. In addition to the Combined Choirs and individual groups, the string ensemble added music to the Christmas program. Mr. D. Dean DeLaney, director of the string en- semble, Mr. Norm Smith, and Mr. Archer Hayes, con- ductor, worked together to bring the parents and stu- dent body Mitchell's first Christmas program.

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DAVE SAURER, THE Prospector, relates his plan to blow up the city architect At 12 olclock, Booml' DEsPo1LERs OF EARTH ARE EXTERMINATED MADWOMEN OF PARIS, Denecia Blakemore, Carlotta Frank, Pam Terry. and Elizabeth Flensted-Jensen, discuss the legal procedures for the trial of the culprits, l 'I The Madwoman of Chaillot, a kind of poetic and comic fable set in the twilight zone of the not-quite- true, was presented on February 25 and 26. At the Cafe Chez Francis a group of promoters plot to tear up Paris in order to unearth oil, which a prospector believes he has located in the neighborhood. These grandiose plans come to the attention of the Madwoman of Chaillot, who is soon shown to be the very essence of practicality, worldly goodness, and commonsense. She sees through the crookedness of the prospector and insists that the world is being turned into an un- happy place by the thieves and the greedy. At a tea party attended by other Hrnadl' Women of Paris, she has brought together representatives of the despoilers of the earth and Wreckers of its happi- ness. The Madwoman has them tried and condemned to extermination. She sends the culprits one by one, lured by the scent of oil and undreamed-of riches, into a bottom- less pit which opens out of her cellar. The exodus of the wicked is accompanied by an- other and more beautiful miracle: joy, justice, and love return to the world again.