The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-05-22
MEETING CLOSES
ON SATURDAY FOR
JUNIORS. STUDENTS.
New Officers Include One Mem
Der of Roanoke Island Music
Club; Over 400 Attend

Head, the following officers were
elected in the Senior division: first
vice-president, Mrs. Floyd Mehan
of Hi g h Point; second vice
president, Mrs. John William
Clark of Charlotte; treasurer,
Mrs. Rennie Williamson of Man
teo; recording secretary, Mrs.
julius Jordan of Raeford; parlia-
mentarian, Mrs. Paul Yelverton of
Raleigh.
The Juniors elected: president,
Eleanor Smith, Elon College;
vice-president, Bill Abrams of
Raleigh; secretary, Anne Falkner
of Raleigh. Mrs. John William
Clark, newly elected second vice
president of the Senior division,
will be state Junior counsellor,
Topping the Seniors on attend
ance (and there were more than
$50 of them) the Juniors came,
1S9 of them, with numerous coun-
sellers, parents, bus drivers and
others, from % towns across the
. state. Some came from Asheville
and Weave1ville, high in the Blue
Ridge mountains, and for them,
as we'll as most of those from the
Piedmont, it was their first
glimpse Of the Atlantic ocean. On
Friday afternoon, when Dare
Countians were shivering in
sweaters and light top coats, num-
bers of these youngsters went for
a swim in the ocean. Having come
so far, and for the first time, a
little cold weather and colder wa
ter were not to stop them from a
dip in the ocean.
The Federation of Music Clubs
is the largest cultural organization
in the world, and in North Caro-
lima alone numbers between nine
and ten thousand members, in
Guiding Senior, Junior and Student
divisions.
Senior convention concerts were
recorded to be sent to the Kinda
Honigman Library, Pennsylvania
Music Camp. The records are a
gift to N. c. music culture of the
Mebane Manufacturing Company.
Artists performing included Mrs.
G. L. Yarick, soprano. Belmont;
Donald Read, 14-year-old Juilliard
student pianist; DIR. William New
man and DR.. Wilton Mason, Chapel
Hill duo-pianists; Mrs. Barbara
Schlageter, soprano, Charlotte,
and Alec Dantre, Raleigh baritone;
Fred Sahlman, Elon College plan
list; the Kannapolis Boys Choir,
Mrs. Jan P. Schinhan, director;
the Asheville Violin Quartette
Mrs. Elizabeth Krauss; director;
The Weaverville Girls Ensemble;
Mrs. w. c. Clark; director; and
the Washington High Choir,
Charles Stevens, director.
The Chapel Hill Choral Club,
DR.. Joel Carter, director, has Sc
cured Mrs. Yarick as it's soprano
soloist for Handel's Alexander's
Feast, scheduled for May 31st,
Mrs. Yarick has just completed a
months engagement with the Dali
las. Texas, Opera Company. She
holds a teaching fellowship in the
Westminster Choir College,
Princeton, N. j.; and has sung
with the Lost Colony choir. She is
a past State Biennial Young Art
list contestant.
The Roanoke Island Music Club,
as hostesses, had as theme "Sea-
shore Simplicity" All corsages for
Officers and others thus honored
were made from locally grown
flowers by Mrs. A. @. Bell, club
member, and co-owner with her
hubsand, of the Roanoke Island
Gardens. All gifts to special
guests were books by local auth
ors about local areas; Roanoke Is
land cook books; and other items
raised or made locally. Mrs. Leo
Midgette was chairman of the
flower committee, and kept fresh
and attractive arrangements of
locally grown flowers on the tables
and in other appropriate spots for
the four days of the convention.
Mrs. T. Reid Cabe was chairman
OF the registration committee.
Mrs. Thomas Chears, member of
the Roanoke Island club, sang the
benediction at the breakfast
Thursday morning; D. v. Meekins
chairman of the Dare County
Board of Commissioners, extended
the welcome at the opening bust
ness session Thursday morning;
and the Manteo Rotary Quartet
with their director, Dick Jordan
sang for the executive board
luncheon on Wednesday.
| Mrs. Julian Oneto, Roanoke IS
land Club president, was conven.
ton chairman, with Mrs. Rennie
Williamson as co-chairman.
| Miss Holland Westcott's second
grade Rhythm Band participated
in the Junior program on Satur-
day.
| While in the area. MANY of the