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The Blue & White Annual
Senior Class Annual of the
Hollidaysburg High School
1924
A Project of Blair County PA USGenWeb Archives
Copyright April 2002. Contributed by Judy Banja
Part 4 - Activities
Orchestra
Special Solo Violin
Edwin Kephart '24
Bettie Sommer '24
Helen Klepser '26
Obligato Violin
Marie Rodkey '25
Ethel Miller '25
Vera Treese
Jane Heverly '24
Kathryn Deem '26
Helen Cross '27
Irene Moore '27
Solo Violin
Donald Heller '25
Samuel Pope '26
Fay Ringler '27
Harrison Snyder '26
Leon Wolfe '2t
Banjo Mandolin
Marie Hanley '25
Alma Wilt '26
Contra Violin
Eleanor Cadman '24
Irene Duffy '26
Harold Myers ' 27
Second Violin
Beverly Harpster
Erma Quarry '26
Kenneth Merritts
Cello
Sarah Webster '25
Flute
Thomas Suckling '27
Clarinet
Alvin McCall '25
Kenneth Cross
Oboe
Lewis Reese
Saxaphone
C. Soprano
Carl Anderson
B flat Soprano
Richard McCall '25
C Melody
James Locher '24
Baritone
Donald Pringle '25
Cornet
Robert Bagshaw '24
Leroy Glunt '27
French Horn
Alfred Wertz
Trombone
Paul Webb '27
Jesse May '27
Piano
William M. Keller '24
Drums
Perry Williams '24
Martin Christy '26
Those names not followed by class number are of students in Junior High School.
Music Department
"Empires dissolve and peoples disappear;
Song passes not away." - William Watson
When we speak of the music department of the High School, we have in mind a variety of musical activities functioning separately, yet in unison and harmony under the direction of Mrs. Jean C. Milleisen.
Probably the most important, and surely the most popular unit of the organization is the orchestra of forty pieces which greets the students as they assemble every morning in the auditorium for devotional exercises. This group of musicans contribute much to the success of the programs rendered both at High School and elsewhere in the town. This year the orchestra loses eight of its members. These Seniors have been playing with the orchestra since their entrance to High School, and are looked for in the orchestra rather than in their class.
Next to the orchestra, in popularity, ranks the vocal organizations. Members of the class Of '24 can well remember the splendid Glee Clubs and Choruses of which they were a part in previous years. This year the most important of vacal organizations is the mixed chorus of fifty voices, which rendered selcetions at Christmas and Thanksgiving.
The Boys Glee Club is composed of Sopranos, Altos, Tenors, and Bases, using unchanged voices in the Alto and Soprano work. Among others, the works of Elia M. Probst and J. Victor Berquist are used by the chorus. There is also a girls chorus which sings two and three part songs.
Once a week a feature of the morning program is a musical selection by a member of the school. These numbers are greatly appreciated by the students.
Music Appreciation is taught in the regular daily music classes. Special classes twice a week pursue a course in Theory of Music and preparation for Teaching. This, a major subject in our curriculm, lays an excellent foundation for all work of such character given at Normal Schools.
We have for the past three years observed Music Week. This observation fostered by the school is entered into by the Churches, Business Mens' and Womens' Clubs of the town, as well as the Y. M. C. A., Glee Club and Town Band. The music department secures entertainers from time to time during the year, who entertain the students and towns-people with excellent programs.
One of the features of the Commencement is the rendering of musical numbers by the Seniors Musicians. This final appearance is a fitting climax to the work in music pursued while attending High School. When those who this year leave school recall school life, recollection will be colored with the efforts and achievements of this department.
Hollidaysburg High School Club of the Y. W. C. A.
Organized 1918
Purpose for this year: It shall be the purpose of this club to be and to help others to be the kind of girls who find and give the best in home, school and life.
Come along to the High School Club meeting! It doesn't matter whether it be social, educational, business, or membership; it is sure to be interesting. As Coue says, "Every day in every way I'm getting better and better" so we can say, "Every year it does appear - the H. H. S. C. grows larger and larger." The members have shown great interest in the work of the club, the program for the year including health, service, and social meetings. A health talk was given by Dr. Sara M. Navies at an early meeting and she attendad a later meeting to tell about her recent trip to Europe. At Christmas time the members of the club made and filled stockings for the children at Cresson. Miss Mary Davis was present at one meeting to tell about her experience with social service work.
The social activities of the club took the form of a "hare and hound chase," a silent supper, a party to which the boys were invited, and a sledding party. Cooking, Courtesy and Gymnasium classes were enjoyed by many members at the Y. W. C. A.
The cabinet of the club which plans and directs its activities is composed of the officers, the chairman of standing committees, and the club advisor. It meets twice a month and the club meetings are held every Thursday. Each summer, delegates from the club are sent to a summer conference at Camp Nepahwin where girls from different places discuss their problems and plan for their club work of the next year. This year three of the girls attended a mid-winter conference at Pittsburgh where they met leading girls of other clubs and received inspiration For their own club work.
Cabinet
| President | Margaret Shope |
| Vice-president | Ethel Fleisher |
| Secretary | Emmaline McClellan |
| Treasurer | Thelma O'Shell |
| Membership Chairman | Leona Krelitz |
| Program Chairman | Janet Dibert |
| Service Chairman | Margaret Griffith |
| Social Chairman | Gladys Housum |
| Advisor | Miss Edith Oler |
MEMBERS OF THE CLUB
| Violet Baker | Mary Mingle |
| Aliean Fell | Irene Moore |
| Sara Beneder | Emmaline McClellan |
| Margaret Buoymaster | Geraldine Neely |
| Grace Buoymaster | Thelma O'Shell |
| Audrey Bowman | Lucile Park |
| Jessie Claar | Helen Powell |
| Margaret Cross | Margaret Powell |
| Janet Dibert | Alice Prough |
| Anna Ernest | Blanche Rhodes |
| Ethel Fleisher | Marie Rodkey |
| Blanche Frederick | Marion Robison |
| Margaret Griffith | Anna Schmidt |
| Dorothy Hawn | Elizabeth Sommer |
| Jane Heverly | Rebekah Shope |
| Gladys Housum | Margaret Shope |
| Catherine Jones | Pearl Stine |
| Helen Klepser | Ethelyn Tussey |
| Eva Knee | Leona Treese |
| Leona Krelitz | Elda Walters |
| Anna Lynch | Mildred Weir |
| Aletta Malone | Marjorie Webb |
| Marjorie May | Martha Williams |
| Marjorie Mentzer | Catherine Zaweija |
| Melda Miller |
