GLEE CLUBS
In 1922 and 19233 Miss Luella Dye gave the Girl's Glee Club their training. She was Principal of the high school and tried in many ways to make the girls enjoy their work. They had several parties during the year. In order to buy their music they had candy sales at school. This year they did not give an operetta, but sang several numbers at Commencement.
Miss Dye was not with us the next year (1923-1924) so Mrs. H. K. Dye was asked to help the Glee Club twice a week. This year we gave an operetta, "The Feast of the Red Corn". The main characters were:- Marguerite Besore Smith, Esther Braden Harms and Evelyn Lewis.
Last year the School Board hired a regular music teacher two days a week. Mrs. H. J. Fitzgerald has been supervisor of music the past two years and in her work has included work with both Boy's and Girl's Glee Clubs and Music in all the grades. The operetta in 1925 was "Love Pirates of Hawaii."
Walter Besore, Norris Pilling, Velma Plumb and Frances Parker Hobson were the soloists and the members of both glee clubs were Hawaiians and Pirates. In this operetta and in the songs used at Commencement the combined clubs sang three part music instead of boys and girls all singing the air.
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