The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-07
Taft Xmas Musical
 In Watertown Sunday
George Morgan to Direct School Choir of GO Voices Military Drill, CaIistheniCs Tomorrow Afternoon

Watertown, Dec. ' = The 9th annual Christmas musical service of the Taft school will be held Sunday afternoon, December 10, at 5:l5 in Christ church on the green.
 The service is under the direction of George Morgan, musical director of the school for p years, who has trained a choir of more than sixty voices and seven soloiStS for the service.
 Besides many of the traditional English and French carols, the pro- gram will feature an original com position by MT Morgan which he wrote in 1880 for poem by Mrs. Gilbert Chesterton entitled "How Far Is It to Bethlehem?" The yer sion to be sung is a special arrange ment for this years choir and pro- gram. Another carol to be heard again this year is Whence Is That Goodly Fragrance?' in an arrange ment by Alfred Baker for the Eton choir.
 AS in the past. friends of the school are cordially invited to at tend the service. The program IS as follows:
 Prelude-On Martin Luther's
 Carol ............ Harvey Gaul ProcesSional Hymn
 O Come, All Ye Faithful
 ................. John Reading March of The Three Kings
 CNov11aHr CV1oifI1N The Holly and The Ivy
 English ....... (Robert DunhilD Hymn-The First Novel;
 ................ 1rao1IAo1lal Here We Come A-Wassailing
 English ... (Channing LeFebvre) Hymn-We Three Kings
 ............ Edward J. Hopkins Soloists-Joseph Cook, John Elder,
 David Means and John Webb Shepherds, Awake Kathryn Davis How Far Is It to Bethlehem
 ............ George Morgan The Lesson
 March of The Wise Men
 Harvey Gauf
 SoloiSt-John Brooks Hymn O Little Town of
 Bethlehem .... Lewis w. Redner Before The Failing of The Stars
 Walter Kramer Whence Is That Goodly
 Fragrance, French (Alfred Baker)
 Soloist-Peter Johl ,Hymn-Silent Night, Holy Night
 ....... Franz Gruber Prayer and Benediction,
 Choral Amen PoStlude-At The Cradle of Jesus
 Seth Brigham
 The following are the boys from the Waterbury area who will be singing in the Christmas choir: James Kenney,. son of MT. and Mrs Francis Kenney of 167 Pennington avenue, Waterbury; Christopher Lehmkuhl, son of MT. and Mrs. Joakim Lehmkuhl of Leonard Road, Middlebury; Thomas Mcdonald, JY., son of MT. and Mrs Thomas McDonald of 148 Westwood avenue, Waterbury; Richard Mattson, son oa MT. and Mrs. George F. Mattson of 54 Hillcrest avenue; Alan Atwood son of MT. and Mrs. Lester w. Att wood of 79 DeF'orest Street; Jack Dewitt, son of MT. and Mrs. Rein hold Dewitt of Nova Scotia Hill Road, all of WatertpWn; Walter R. Brooks, son Of MT. and Mrs. Walter Brooks of Woodbury.
 The Taft School will hold its third annual Military Drill & Ca- liSthenics competition tomorrow aft ernoon at 300 o'clock on the low CT athletic field. Judges for the competition will be Major Cyril Dunphy of the 102nd Infantry, 43rd Division, of Waterbury who is home on leave from the South Pacific, John A. McCleary of the Leroy G. Woodward Post of American Legion, Watertown, and Dr. James s. Mar tin of Watertown.
 The schools three clubs, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma have each been divided into three platoons and are commanded by members of the sen- for class. The calisthenics are also to be given by the students. The following are those in command of the various companies and platoons: Alpha Company Commander, James Conway, son of Judge and Mrs. Theobald E. Conway of Waterbury, Alpha Platoon leaders, Richard Bidwell, John Elder and David Pow CTS; Beta Company Commander, Thomas Murphy of Hartford, Beta Platoon leaders, Harold Tearse, Alexander King and Thomas Mo Donald, son of MT. and Mrs. Thom- as Mcdonald of Waterbury; Gam ma Company Commander, Howard Richmond, son of MT. and Mrs. Clarence Richmond of Washington, Conn, Gamma Platoon leaders, William Halsted, Francis Kenney, son of MT. and Mrs. Francis Ken ney of Waterbury and Howard Cor ham.
 Three one-act plays will be pre- scented here in the Bingham Audi torium of the Taft school, Satur- day evening, December at 8:15 o'clock in competition between the Alpha, Betan and Gamma clubs. The plays to be presented are: by the