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~lichigan State No:rnlal College Editor

Ruth Sherman Business Manager

AURORA BOARD A. K. Gardner

A ss't Editor Gladys Zuck

Students of M. S. N. C. Ypsilanti, Michigan

Dear Friends:

A ss't Business Managers Stanley H all Bradley Harris

Ypsilanti. Mieh. May 1, 1926

We are submitting to you for approval a copy of our most recent publication, a goodly volume wherein you will find drawings, photographs, jokes, and other matter concerned with your interests and activities during the past year. The task of collecting and arrang­ing this material has been difficult. Often the editor has gone about with her brow most unbecomingly furrowed, while at times even the equal temper of the business manager has suffered. But now, as we rev iew the year, we realize that it is the delightful happenings, the laughable incidents, that we remember. We wish that we might share with you personally the pleasure that we have experienced. As this is impossible, we hope that a bit of the fun and good fellow­ship has crept into the pages of this glorified memory book- THE AURORA of 1926.

Assisting Editors Janet Bares, Art Ruth Bayler , Seniors Guy Baker, Juniors Carl Pray, Sophomores Barbara D euel, Freshmen Russell Gwinndl, Campus Activities Florence Rega l, Sororities E lberr Thompson, Fraternities Gertrude M ayer , Gladys D enninger,

Girl's Athletics Byron Boyd, Men's Athletics Catherine Neville, Jokes David MacPherson, Carroons

Sincerely yours,

The Aurora Board.

A ssistants to the Art Editor D orothy Kerr Thomas Reed Eleanor T eaboldt Lucy Whidark Margaret Fox Elizabeth D evereaux Helen Squiers Mary Lou Cooper Margaret Kerr Margaret Wedemeier

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MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL BAND 1925-1926

Captain Wilfred Wilson, Conductor Prof. John F. Barnhill, Faculty Manager and Custodian

OFFICERS

Carl Forsythe .. . ... .. . . . ........... . ... . .............. . President Max Sweet ..................... . . . : ........... Business Manager Howard Helfrich . . . . . . . ... . .................. . . Assistant Director Ralph Hanby . . ..................................... Drum Major

The Michigan State Normal College Band was organized November 1, 1924. The initial appearance was made here at the Kalamazoo-Ypsilanti football game when forty-eight uniformed men paraded the city streets and played at the football field. Last year concerts were given at Northville, Milan, and Hudson . Other trips included the football game at Albion and the M. I. A. A. track and field meet at Hillsdale.

This year the band has played several our-of-town concerts and made other ap­pearances including the Kalamazoo College football game at Kalamazoo, the Na­tional Motorbus Show in Detroit , and the Michigan State Teachers' Association in Jackson. The band has played at assemblies, football, basketball, and baseball games, and other events in Ypsilanti.

Much credit is due Mr. Barnhill , who has devoted a great deal of time to make the band a success, and to Captain Wilfred Wilson, who has directed the band since its organization.

Although the ba~d has been smaller this year, a campaign is being started which will eventually give the Michigan State Normal College a sixty-piece band.

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Members of the

MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL COLLEGE BAND 1925-1926

Cornets H oward Helfrich Laverne Miller Bradley Harris Harold Sterling Amherst Gorton Leith Wetzel Gordon Youngs H . Beverly Smith Chester Haupt

Clarinets J F. Barnhill Leon MacDermott Fred Weinmann Richard Simon Theodore]. Hage Lawrence Peck

Saxophones Chalmer Youngs Delmar Youngs Gerald Dakin Russell Brockway Kenneth Kline Raymond Sorenson

Altos James H. Jennings Theron Sloggett Clarence Stein Ira Kingsley

Baritone H omer Hazelton

Trombones Evard Ayers Marvin Hall

Walter Day Neil Hawker Eugene Morrison Clarence Ward

Basses Carl Forsythe George Stark George Miller Lester Schutt Robert Uhlinger

Drums Harold Campbell Max Sweet George Robinson Paul Tammi

Drum Major Ralph H anby

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THE GIRLS' VARSITY BAND Captain Wilfred W ilson, Conductor

OFFICERS Laura M ann ........ . . . . .......................... . .... President Ethel Parr ................ . .................... .. . Vice- President M argaret H olcomb . . . .............. . .. . ... .. ... Secretary-T reasurer Esther Pace .......... . . .... .. ........ . ......... Business Manager Bessie Wade ..................... . . . ..... . . ....... . .. . . Librarian .

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Ethel Parr Helen Ko lhoff Ethel Church Escher Pace Donna Drury Helen Martin Winifred Kitching D orotha Lyons Laura Mann

MEMBERS

H elen Gaylord Dorothy Drew Alice Spotts Arion Wright M argaret Siess Fern Williams Rosalyn Cookson R ose Rabb Marie H achlewitz

Garnet Royce Wilma Ellsworth Ruth D o uglas Leota Andrus Irma Simmonds Lucile K ashenider Thora Anderson Dorothy Crandall

Among the newer and m ore unusual organizations on the campus is the Girls' Varsity Band, organized this year under the direction of Captain Wilfred Wilson, of Ann Arbor. The organization is yet young, but if the initiative and fine co-opera­tive spirit of its members and the ability of its conductor have any significance, the Girls' Band will undoubtedly become important as a campus activity.

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NORMAL STRING QUARTETTE Edith H. Irion, First Violin Russell Gwinnel , Second Violin

Paul Tammi, Viola Gertrude Estes, Cello

NORMAL COLLEGE ORCHESTRA First Violins

Mary Shekel! Russell Gwinnel Martha Rosentreter Adele Spencer Florence Gee Emory O esrrike Marjory Bowen

Second Violins Marjery MacDonald Anna Proctor Eva Griffith

Third Violins Helen Sternberger Mina Clay Helen Scott Nadine Wood Leta Bailey

Fourth Violins Helen Gelakoski Ethel English Elsie Curtis Stella Campbell

Violas Margaret Downing Paul Tammi

Cellos Gertrude Estes Caroline Johnson H. E. Laing Elizabeth Wqittlesey

Bass Viol Bernice Washburn Ray Jennings

Piano Mildred Stanger

Mrs. Edith H . Irion, Conductor

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NORMAL CHOIR Frederick Alexander, Conductor

Detroit News Editorial (Cyril Arthur Player) " Among the best choirs in this country is the Ypsilanti Normal , which Frederick

• Alexander has brought to such a proud place of narional repute. It does not need : he fi lip of local pride to commem orate the rise of this splendid organization, for it may

-:::::::7. A - 1 ~- _ _, be mentioned in any company and in /It-'~ .. 1'-J~~ music centers far from Michigan with ~:he

assurance that prompt and hearty recogni­tion will be forthcoming.''

D etroit News Article (R . J. Mclaughlm) " An annual event which D etroit 's musi­

cal public has learned to anticipate w1.th eagerness is the pre-holiday appearance of che Ypsilanti Normal Choir , in Orchestra Hall. This pleasant thing took place yester­day afternoon, Mr. Kolar and t he Detroit Sy~phony Orchestra yielding half of the program to Mr. Alexander and his very fine organization.

" Much fame attaches to the Ypsilanti Cho ir because, for years, Mr. Alexander has labored with ardent emhusiasm toward a very lofty ideal. This ideal is nothing short of perfection in choral singing. . . .

" The personnel of the choir inevitably alters somewhat from year to year, and, over a span of years, changes entirely. But its performance is constant. Each Christmas

Frederick Alexander time we of D etroit remark the same perfec-tion in m odulation, the same husbanding

of resources in the construction of a climax, and the same unerring precision in attack and release. . . . . "

Detroit News , April 14, 1926 " The Michigan State Normal College Choir, under the direction of Frederick

Alexander, probably has never sung before an audience more exacting than that which heard it last night in a representative program at the Cass Technical High School Auditorium.

" The performance was arranged especially for the delegation attending the nineteenth annual Music Supervisors ' National Conference , now in its third day. The audience consisted of nearly 1 , 5 00 superv isors. And it was an audience as appreciative as it was exacting.

" At one of che first general sessions of the conference, Dr. Thomas H . Briggs, of Columbia University , in an address on music appreciation, said in effect chat music was art when ic awoke in the hearer a sincere emotional response. On such a premise, then, the choir's singing last night was art . For the response to it was as sincere a:; it was spontaneous. It is presumed that the response was a manifestation of emotion.

" Church music is nothing if not emotional. And t he choir's performance of passage:; - the Et lncarnatus, the Crucifixus, and the Et Resurrexit- from John Sebastian Bach's Mass in B Minor, was em otional in its essence, but at no time unrestrained.

" A majestic piece of music is the Mass in B Minor, and a m ajestic interpretatior.. did the choir give such parts of it as were included in the program. In the Crucifixus and the Resurrexit particularly did the choir's 150 voices excel in their precision, their shadings, and their nuances."

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