Yates Center High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Yates Center, KS)

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GIRLS SINFONIETTA The Girls' String Sinfonictta is a new organization formed in the full ol' 19249. lt is composcd entirely of high school students, und limitcd to u niembership ol' twenty'-four. This orchestra, undcr the direction of one ol' the high school's f'UlllIM'i4'lll music instructors, Dalc P. Creitz, made its first public appearance at Il ll. T.A. llllttll- iw: Dl1F?llllb9l' T. The girls made fl nuxnher of other creditalslo appearances during thc school yiiar. Among thc- most outstanding ol' these were ut thc lfzttlicr und Son llzimlut-I, sponsorod hy the Hi-Y, thc Faculty Banquet ut the Christiun Church, and tht- Illvtll' ing of thc VVOYIIGIIYS Clubs of Woodson County l'or the OU-fllIllZZ1llOll ol' an l'e-clvi'z1- tion. They also plnycd during Music Wieck. This organization will be continued next year and will probuhly lit-coiiic :x pcrmzxnvnt orgzulization in the high school music depztrtinent. FIRST liOVVg llotty Schnell, Geraldine Drain, Mr. Crcitz, Bcity Simpson, Iniojc-un Long, Rzirhnra Abbott, Madeline Strong, Emily Armstrong, Juanita Vicc, Lor- raine Awult, W':1nda Daniels. SECOND ROXV: Doris Weide, Donnn Hollingsworth, l'1I'llli.1lltlllll Long, llvlvn flun- ncls, Marjorie Mathis, Mcrtlia, Ezlslcy, l':iulinc lWO0l'llP2l4l. PAGI' 27

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STANDING: Mr. Creitz, Dick Buck, Eva Lee Shotts, Beverly WVest, Bill Lamb, George Woodruff, Barbara Abbott, Clark Hollinger, Martha Ratts, Juanita Mentzer. OUTER CIRCLE: Frances Weide. Frances Conn, Alan Kee. Ethel Starkebaum, Law- rence Robinson, Gladys Kee, Laura Mae Simpson, Tommy VanHoozer, Nadine Stockebrand, Vear Leighton, Morris Mahon, Walter Steffen, Jesse Gillespie, Raymond Pingrey, Eugene McCormick. SECOND CIRCLE: Bob Wise, Kenneth Guenther, Ward Barnett, Dorothy Phillips, Arthur Bacon, Bob Pingrey, Calvin Brodman, Mary Ellen Gresham, Bob VVorth- ington, Tommy Fry, Lenore Reep, Carl Smith, Marvin Nickel, Shirley' Ann Stoll, Myron Stockebrand, Katherine Smith, Starl Driskill, Estil Barnes, Buddy Rcdfearn. Richard Scott. THIRD CIRCLE: Francis Campbell, Earl Brodman, Bill Greene, Ula Brown, Clarence Nigh, Junior Stockebrand, Marjorie XVest, Harvey Klick, Richard Leighton, Benjy Greene. Verna Mae Peters, Betty Schnell. CENTER CIRCLE: Cleo Mae Foote, Donna Hollingsworth, Lavonne Daniel, Frances Shaefer, Dick Plumb, Norma Kilby Ragland, Margaret Lancaster, Mary Buck, Helen Mahon. The band. composed of sixty-three members, is the most popular musical organ- ization in the school. It appears at all the home football games and many' assembly programs. A Pep Band, which was chosen from this group, plays for all the home basketball games. The concert band took part in the Iola Armistice Day Parade, and appeared in parades at Topeka and Lawrence. This group represented the high school at the Tri-Valley League Music Festival at Humboldt and at the Emporia Contest. Mr. Creitz, the capable and efficient director, has steadily improved this organi- zation. This makes his third year as director of the band and instrumental music in Yates Center. Officers of the band are as follows: President. Helen Mahon: Vice President, Norma Kilby Ragland, Secretary, Richard Scott, Librarian, Beverly West: Student Council representative, Harvey Klick. BAND

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t. BACK ROW: Pauline Moorhead, Virginia Fry, Dick Plumb, Clark Hollinger, George Woodruff, Francis Almond, Bob Yohon, Mary' Joan Fry, Mary Frances Briles, Emilia Kraft. SECOND ROW: Mildred Blandy, Laura Mae Simpson, Glenn Tolle, Alan Stoll, Richard Mulsow, Richard Slane, Denzel Philo, Joseph Kuestersteffen, Emerson Tadt- man, Violet Stoll, Dorothea Brinkman. THIRD ROW: Juanita Mentzer, Lavonne Daniel, Buddy Redfearn, Norryce Mentzer, Junior Stockebrand, Kenneth Etter, Ivan Mentzer, Ruth Sorenson, Katherine Phoebe Smith. FOURTH ROW: Norma Lee Duncan, Naomi Stockebrand, Betty' Jo Williams, Nadine Stockebrand, Ula Brown, Frances Shaefer, Eva Lee Shotts, Marjorie Mathis. Evelyn Mulsow, Miss Knotts. One of the outstanding musical organizations of the Yates Center High School is the A Cappella Choir directed by Miss Edith Knotts. This group of mixed voices is one ol' our new organizations. Forty of the most capable singers in the school were chosen to make up the choir. Its first appearance was at a P. T. A. meeting early in the season. The choir sang appropriate numbers in the Christmas Pageant, as well as furnishing the soloists for it. This organization participated in the invitation music festival at K. S. T. C., Emporia. From this group, capable quartettes and soloists were chosen to represent the school in this festival. Pauline Moorhead, the accompanist, assisted Miss Knotts in a very creditable l1lll!lll0l'. A CAPPELA CHOIR