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      This was the year a Boy's Glee Club had been organized and much progress was made.    
       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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     A play was worked out in which Hobson, running forward, dribbled the ball, and Boyer and Dinwiddie, looking back at Hobson, ran interference.   The two of them cleared a path for Hobson, who dribbled and passed to Hugh Braden and he sunk the ball in the basket.   According to Tacy, during this year of the "Championship", Hugh Braden got into the enemy's territory, beyond the center line, but three times, and Henry left his "post" guard position but once.   Henry tried for a basket but three times in the two years and made but one.  It was Tacy's idea that Braden should always be available at his basket and that Henry should always threaten the enemy's goal.

                                                                   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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