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

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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

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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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choruses from the seven schools were under the direcf tion of Joseph Maddy, University of Michigan, and George Bowen, supervisor of music in Tulsa, Oklahoma Public Schools. Another musical activity was the annual music week program presented by the public schools of Kansas City, Kansas, at Memorial Hall during the week of April 2327. Students of the fifth and sixth grades opened the week with a musical program accompanied by the Wyandotte High School band. Wyandotte also contributed their talent on the high school night program by furnishing its orchestra and the boys' and girls' glee clubs. Pupils of the kindergartens and elementary grades closed the week with their presentation on the last day. Thus, the notes and bars trooped their way through this school year, opening to students a highway of harmonious adventure and providing for many the joys of beauty in music. masse-Msfesm 7-lie Unsuspecfe gan if IT WAS a big gray house situated on a large hill in the southern part of Tulsa, Okla. Mary stood on the porch and screamed at her dog, You get out, you mean thing, and don't come back. With that she rushed into the house and upstairs. Mary sat in her bedroom that night, with the lights out trying to figure out why she had become angry at Skippy, her dog, and whipped him when he had jumped at her. She had been so angry she hadn't thought so dirty. company now that she was alone in the house. Oh, why had of what she was doing, and his paws were Skippy would have been truly wonderful she ever hit him and chased him out doors, and now he was gone. Even though she had called him back he hadn't looked around as he raced down the hill with his ears pressed flat to his head. Dear! what was that noise? Probably Mother and Dad coming home. Mary suddenly straightened up and reached for the light switch, then, checked her- self as she heard a more peculiar noise downstairs. This time she knew it was neither of her parents. Immediately thoughts flashed through her mind. Those bandits who had escaped from the prison! What if it were one of them. She suddenly remembered that she had forgotten to lock the door after she let Skippy out. It probably was open now and she must do something quickly. That noise is going about from room to room. Sounds like footsteps. There l6 goes a door, I know it is those bandits! Oh! where is Skippy? I have it, I'll try to get out and get a horse, may- be I can make it to the Briggs' house, then I'll telef phone the police. Still, that gun in father's desk, he certainly won't mind. Oh-the bandit is coming up the steps. Now I'll never get out, unless I go through the window. Ah! I'll make it down the gutter pipe. Ouch! There goes my stocking and half my leg with it. Mary finally managed to get down the pipe without anyone knowing it, at least the bandit didn't hear it, for as she slid down she heard a loud crash in the house and someone or something falling downstairs. Oh! darn it, she exclaimed as she looked toward the stables, the men have taken the horses to town, and I certainly can't walk a mile to the Briggs' house -I'd probably never make it. just then something crashed through the front screen door and disappeared. At that moment her leg began to smart and feel wet, without thinking, she ran into the house and turned on the lights in the kitchen. What a sight met her eyes. Spots of mud, all over the floor. Upon careful examination she found the other rooms clean. How strange, surely a bandit takes no time to dirty up a floor in one room like that. What was that! she cried. Oh! Skippy, you bandit! In he came, splattered with mud, his tail wagging wildly, and his eyes saying, Hello -Stella Evango, 235 paplliliffilhifs MR. Jasper Giggins was accustomed to taking Pape's Pink Pills regularly. Several pills a day at regular intervals gave him a feeling of security, so he always had a large supply from Dr. Beulah lying around almost any place in the house. Mrs. Giggins' pride was her neighborhood bridge club, each week she dressed up and sallied out to an afternoon of cards. Always she felt well dressed if she wore her strand of beads from the Hawaiian Islands, where she and Jasper had spent their vacation one year before the depression. When she started in a rush that afternoon her lovely necklace hooked onto a door knob and the beautiful beads scattered over the floor. Mrs. Giggins was disgusted enough to leave them there, but thought better of it and stopped to gather them up. Hurriedly she poured them into an empty box on the mantle and hurried to the bridge party. Dinner was late that evening as Mrs. Giggins had stayed late at her friend's house. As a result Mr. Giggins was very grouchy and the two hardly spoke all through The .QUIVERIAN