The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-29
Central High Singers, Council Bluffs Band to Compete
in National Music Contest at Kansas City This Week
Omaha Chamber Angling for
Next Years Meet: Rotary
Club Gives Aid.
By ARTHUR GREEN,

More than so members of Central
High schools senior boys and girls
glee clubs will board a special train
for Kansas City. Mo, Friday morn
Ing, April 8, to participate in the ma
tional musical contest, which will
clamp the lid upon the annual con-
vention of the National Supervisors
of Music.
This official announcement was
given out by Mrs. F. F. Pitts. head
of the musical department at Central
High school. According to Mrs. Pitts,
the contestants who are to make the
trip to represent Central were chosen
through an elimination process.
Central, according to Mrs. Pitts,
will send its boys senior glee club
and a mixed chorus composed of b5
send its hand and orchestra. and York
High will be represented by its IA
nous girls glee club.
Aided by Rotary Club.
The states which are to send repre-
sentatives to the midwestern musical
contest at Kansas City are Iowa, Ne
braska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kan
sas. The Omaha delegation, though
being one of the largest that will at
tend the convention. is doped to carry
off some of the high honors. as is
also the championship Abraham Lin
coin High school band of Council
Bluffs.
1T think 1t is splendid idea" said
Mrs. Pitts. And besides. the Rotary
club has helped finance Central high,
thus making it possible for Cen
trail to send its mixed chorus.
The convention which is to be held
In Kansas City has aroused the
Omaha Chamber of Commerce. which
is now angling for the 1925 conven-
ton. Thursday noon at the Chamber
of Commerce, musical instructors OF
all Omaha schools, together with Miss
Belle Ryan and j. II. Beveridge, su-
perintendents of Omaha schools, will
discuss the matter with the governing
board of the Chamber Of Commerce.
List of Travellers.
Central's offerings in the program
are 1.-The Madrigal," by Samuel
Gaines; THE Pretty Maid by Caldi-
colt: THE Trumpeter." by Dix, and
"Spooks," by Ira Wilson. The male
chorus will sing the former selection.
The following members OF Centrals
senior glee clubs will make the trip:
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Girls: Alice May Christensen. Char
lotto Troxell Jean Ellington, Rather.
inc Dunaway. Elizabeth Bell, Hazel
Showalter, Clarice Johnson, Alice
Rouse, Elizabeth Houser. Doris segur,
Jean Sterling, Jean Borglum, Dorothy
Dawson. Frances Beard, Eleanor
Clapper. Kathryn Douglas, Marion
Griffin, Drusa Delahoyde, Mary Alice
Kirtley, Irene Howe. Artemis Timber
lake, Gladys Borcherding, Mildred
Harris. Regina Malone, Lyle Robinson.
Frances Wolfe, Hulda Mitchell Helen
Osterholm and Helene Cleaveland.
Boys: Harland wiles, Volcott Swift,
Roy Larson, Elwood Wilmouth, Al.
fred Wadleigh. Stanley Kiger, Bruce
MCLEAN. Arthur Goldstein. Sylvan
Erman. Arlo Benjamen. Lowell Hum
phreys, Alfred Anderson. Charles
Mathews. Harold Gabrielson. Bernarr
Wilson. Clyde Miller. Neil Carmichael.
Amos Young. Richard Cole. Dale Nc
Farlane, Sam Mlnkin. Benjamin Nye.
oliver Ames. George Lorenz, Norman
Swoboda and Oscar Hollquist.
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