This year Mrs. Fitzgerald has spent twice as much time with the Girl's Glee Club and Mr. Cox has spent a like amount with the Boy's club and in the operetta for this year "The Gypsy Rover", the combined Glee Clubs sang four part music for the first time.
The soloists for "The Gypsy Rover" were; - Mildred Shuck, Lola Keast, Kenneth Taylor, Harry Braden, Walter Besore, Velma Plumb, Donald Fisher, Lucille Boruff and Gerald Babbitt. The other members took the parts of gypsies, hunters, lords and ladies.
THE BAND
About the first of October, 1924, the M.H.S. Band was started. No one in High School but Donald Fisher had ever played in a band, but Mr. Cox agreed to donate his time for practice and private lessons to all who would bring instruments. Practice was held after school hours the first semester, but later it was found that the schedule could be arranged to use some school time for practice. There were eighteen members of the first year's band and eight of them did not return to school or dropped out of the band.
The other ten members were afraid they would not have much of a band this year, but started practicing as soon as Mr. Cox returned from Summer School and when school started there were sixteen new members, making a large enough band to play real music.
The band has played for all the home basketball games and took a never-to-be-forgotten truck ride to Carson to advertise the big "jinx" Minstrel Show. March 25th they presented their work to the public in a formal concert. While the concert was poorly attended, the members feel that they had a real initiation as regular band performers and look forward to other chances to play in public.
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