Wyandotte High School - Quiverian Yearbook (Kansas City, KS)

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in fefs an afzs gg RAILS Southwest, presented hy Thurlow Licuf rance, composer of Indian musie,at Memorial Hall, Thursday, Novemher 7, was prohahly the most outstanding musical program to he presented to the puh' lic this year, Two programs were given hy Mr. Lieuf tance, one in the afternoon for grade school pupils and the other in the evening for adults and high school students. A group of artists, known as the Kuhik Ensemhle, presented a program new to the concert stage at the Northwest junior high school auditorium. The group was composed of a mother, Evelyn Kuhik, and her three sons, Howard, Gail, and Henry. Although the mother was unahle to appear with them, the hoys gave an outstanding program for the students. The Boys' Ulee Cluh under the direction of Miss Lorraine Ellis, vocal instructor, gave many fine prof grams to separate groups. The purpose of the off ficcrs elected hy the Glee Cfluh was to meet the various 69006219 772lLuZl'lS social and disciplinary prohlcms that arose. Williani Piekell was president and Williztni Mcisser was vice' president. Fifty students were enrolled in the cluh this year. Under the direction of Mr. Edwin A. Hosking there were three instrumental organizations: the orchesl tra, and the A and B hands. Shortly after the open' ing of school the B hand joined with the A. Special numbers and field displays were given at the football games. The same policy was carried out at the hasketf ball games. During the first part of the school year the hand spent a large part of its time in preparing for its part in the parade and Kansas Day program given at the American Royal Live Stock Show in Uctoher. Bands from schools throughout the state of Kansas took part in the concerts and parades. At the annual Christmas program given hy the school the concert hand played musical selections. The prof 14 The .QUIVERIAN

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x l I i ,f , ,A ' if f X A ,f ff 2- My f ffllllxv n M jffffl 'fr W X if fs 1. ' g ' Ee -s EQ, young wife had become a mother by the light of his spluttering gas lantern that hung from the store's ceilf ing. So it went, winter and summer. He either saw, heard, or knew it all. Some died, a few left, fewer themselves, but on the whole, life in Dobson remained the same. Dave noticed that his fingers were shaking slightly as he drew the rawhide saddle strings tight around the filled sack. A name kept pounding in his brain. Pap Sanders! g but, as he gripped Nappy's mane with clamped the other one over the managed to throw his head back came, some married, and two had killed his bridle hand and steel saddle horn, he and smile in the face of the loungers, saying, Well, so long, boys, I'm off in a cloud of dust! The late afternoon breezes laden with the brisk tangy odor of sage helped to clear Dave's brain of its mo' mentary, feverish excitement. The thought of Pap Sanders still sent a strange tingling through his blood stream and caused him to grip the bridle reins a little tighter. As he neared the edge of town, he gazed at the sun-bathed tilting spire of the outer-most building, the Catholic Mission, and absently mused that it was cerf tainly representative of the religion of the town. Bat' tered, bent, and weather-beaten it sat alone on the flat prairie, long guyfwires anchoring it against the fierce onslaught of the prevailing or bushes adorned its base from the blast of blizzards winter winds. No shrubs and no trees sheltered it and the relentless blister' inf! heat of the sun. Stark naked it stood against the sky. ugly, vet strangely beautiful. Like a bedraggled ind hafzfrard sentinel it clung, guarding the town from rhe assailments of Satan and Beelzebub. As he passed the cemetery he marveled at the bravf rrv of women who would live and die in such a coun' rrv and be buried in such a place. To be deprived of :he natural life of lights and companionship, to live a hard life in a hard country, and, as a climax, to be laid to rcst in such a forlorn sanctuary, was indeed a heroic gesture. A crude barbed wire fence marked its bounds. The barren graves were marked with native stone, hand-cut and inscribed. No flowers were 19344935 planted on them because everybody knew that they wouldn't grow. Over each was an oblong patch of glaring white gravel because once the hardpan was ripped open the sod and never came back. It left a per- manent scar. He remembered the remark the skipper had made the day after Chet Nelson was buried, I'd rather have the coyotes pick my bones than to be baked under six feet of gravel in that place. By the time the flat, marginal, prairie land began to give way to the jutting rocks and scattered jack-pines of the footfhills the thought of Pap had ceased to cause Dave any excitement. Other thoughts entered his mind that there hadn't been room for before. After all,- Pap Sanders, -there might be a thousand of them in the United States. There might even be two of them in the state of Montana, but that al' lowed him a 5050 chance of success. Slowly, as the gap between two imposing peaks swallowed the sun, and the burning coals of red and amber that it left on the jagged teeth began to melt and fall away, the thought of earning S7000 by capturing a decrepit old man began to turn stale on him. He turned the name over in his brain and at last tried to justify his acf tions by the fact that Pap hadn't told him that his name was Pap Sanders, and that he had immediately become indignant when he had found it out and had called him that. The fact that Pap had been in the locality for only three months and had squatted in that deserted cabin back of his place and that he had always sent him to town for grub could be explained in a multitude of ways. But still, he lived like a dog, associated with no one, and kept asking if any of the YL riders ever came through there to keep track of their yearlin's. Of course there was no one within seven miles of rough country to associate with, but yet, why hadn't he gone to town to stay? The trapping season was over. Nappy laboured up a steep, narrow ravine and Dave felt a thrill that always coursed through him when a good piece of horseflesh was struggling beneath him. When they had reached a landing place and looked up in the face of a longer and steeper climb, Dave reined in to give Nappy his breathe The smell of sweat and leather blending with the slightly pungent odor of deeply matted pine needles was pleasant, and they waited a little longer than was necessary while Dave looked long and thoughtfully at a light across the narrow valley. Nappy faced it too and cocked first one ear and then the other nervously in its direction, waiting for the command to proceed. There was his home, rest, and green grass. He could shake and roll luxuriously in the pine needles and relieve his sweaty itching back, Dave had his own visions-a table set and ready, a pair of deep, blue eyes, waiting. He heard a voice saying, You'll be back for supper? . fContinued on Page 671 13

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gram was presented a week before Christmas in Me' morial Hall. It was designed to take the place of the AllfSchool Chorus which was discontinued this year. About ten members of the band played at the pagf eant celebrating the threefhundredth anniversary of the fuanding of the Boston Latin school. The pageant was given the night of january 28 in the Northwest junior high school auditorium. Approximately sixty girls' make up the Girl's Glee Club, one of the largest of its kind in the state of Kansas. At a meeting in the fall, girls decided to adopt a costume to be worn at all of their programs. They chose thc following girls as their officers: Harriett Smith, presidentq Christine Provas, vicefpresidentg Do' rine Hessell, secretaryg and Dorothy Rhoades, treasurer. At the banquet held by the National Scholastic Press Association Convention at the Hotel Muehlebach a small group of boys and girls and the orchestra gave a musical program for the delegates of the convention. Other outside programs in which the girls took part were the Christmas program at Memorial Hall, the Teachers' Convention, and several programs given at various churches in the city. Music was furnished by the Wyaiadotte high school orchestra for the senior play, Dollars to Doughnuts, the junior play, You'rc the Doctor, and the Kay Cees' play, Whisperi11g Pines. Each year the orches' tra takes part in the Music Week program held at Memorial Hall during April. It also takes part in many other worth while programs given in the city. During the second semester this year the orchestra and band was moved to more desirable quarters in the Sartin Building, Eighth street and Minnesota avenue. The schools of the Northeast Kansas League combined their talents in a festival of instrumental and vocal music which was a part of the Leagues Fine Arts fesf tival day, featuring music and speech in its day of fun at Atchison, April 6. The selections played by the combined orchestras were: In a Persian Market, by Ketelbey: the Sleep ing Beauty W:tltz, by Tschaikowskyg Apple Blosf scams, by Katherine Robertsg SuitefSiguard jorselliarf' by Grieg, and Semiramide, by Rosini. Vocal selections were: Daybreak, by Fanning: Send Out Thine Light, by Gounodg and Emitte Spiritus Tumm, by Schnetky. Other selections which were sung by the chorus were, 'iCalm as the Night, by Bohn, Salvejog's Song, by Grieg: Lo, How a Rose, by Prateoriusg 'LThe Drum, by Gibson: and the Wiritei' Song, by Bullard. The musical numbers were presented in the evening at the Atchison Memorial Hall. The orchestras and l934fIv.1i 15