U-School Presents Two Christmas Music Programs
SIU Shryock Auditorium hosts two Lights of Christmas performances the Sunday at 4 p m and Monday at 7 30 p m The Sunday show features seven tableau scenes with narration and candlelight processional Madrigal Group I and the Mixed Chorus provide music Jeannie Frakes piano Keith Pierce organ Jim Sapnfield narrator The Monday program omits tableau scenes with Madrigal Group II and seventh and eighth grade carols
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University School
Southern Illinois University
Shryock
SIU
Jeannie Frakes
Keith Pierce
Jim Sapnfield
Candleight
Madrigal Group II
Carterville Sets One-Act Plays at High School Thursday
Two one act plays will be presented by the junior and senior classes at 7 30 p m Thursday at Carterville Community High School The junior play A Stranger in Bethlehem features Fred Lowry in the title role with Nancy Colp Francis Lowry Carolyn Baltimore Phillip Penrod and John McKinney in the cast Carolyn Arndt is student director The author is Charles George Mike Hall portrays a famous dramatic star in the senior play The Flattering Word a minister s home is shaken by the visit of an actor who was a school
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Carterville Community High School
Bethlehem
Fred Lowry
Nancy Colp
Francis Lowry
Carolyn Baltimore
Phillip Penrod
John McKinney
Carolyn Arndt
Charles George
Mike Hall
Teens Propose Solutions At All Day Recreation Meet
Students from seven area high schools met at University High School to discuss teen age recreation in Southern Illinois. They heard a symposium from SIU and split into six person round tables led by graduate students. Discussions covered problems and possible solutions with reports to the group. Footage included a play by students directed by Priscilla Niermann and supervised by Beagles teacher Clinton J. Jr. The event aims to form an inter community coordinating body and plans a March legislative assembly.
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Southern Illinois
University High School
Southern Illinois University
SIU
University School
James Fee
Fee
John T. Moake
Carbondale
Illinois
Harold J. Hartley
Murphysboro
Marion
Sparta
Mt. Vernon
West Frankfoot
Cairo
Southern Illinois High School Speech Conference
Carbondale FHA Groups Run Christmas Gift Projects
Future Homemakers of America chapters at Carbondale Community High School University High School and Attucks High School organize Christmas gifts and food baskets for local patients at Anna State Hospital and Sunset Haven Nursing Home and for crippled children. CCHS plans 86 decorated cigar boxes for Anna State gifts and 10 boxes from University High with small gifts. SIACC will distribute eight to nine boxes to Murphysboro area handicapped children and the rest in Carbondale. Baskets and turkey and other foods scheduled for Dec 17 and 18.
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Future Homemakers of America
Carbondale High Schools
Carbondale Community High School
University High School
Illinois Federated Women’s Clubs
Anna State Hospital
CCHS
FHA
U-School
Cchs Future
Southern Illinois Assn
James Porter
SIACC
Murphysboro
Carbondale
Attucks High School
Sunset Haven
Herrin Choruses To Sing Sunday Christmas Vesper Program
Herrin city schools present a Christmas Vesper Program at 3 p m Sunday in the Junior High Gymnasium. About 250 students in grades 5 through 8 perform under Betty Boatright and Margaret Smith. The Devilettes sing I Wonder As I Wander, with Carol Mitchell as reader. Bobby Oldani and Ronald Barker duet on O Holy Night. The Devileers perform two numbers. Edward Avripas sings I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus with Vickie Brown accompanying. Junior and Senior Choruses perform several numbers, and Janet Peffer is the pantomimist in Dear Santa Have You Had the Measles.
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É Herrin
Betty Boatright
Margaret Smith
Devilettes
Carol Mitchell
Bobby Oldani
Ronald Barker
the Devileers
Edward Avripas
Mommy
Santa Claus
Vickie Brown
North Side School
Janet Peffer
Santa
A High Plans Christmas Show At University High
University High School presents a 1 30 p m Christmas Assembly with a short play about how A Visit From St Nicholas was conceived by Clement Moore choral speaking group readings and a parody The Night After Christmas by Howard Branch, all performed by Speech I class students.
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Choiic
University High School
St. Nicholas
Clement Moore
Howard Branch
Holiday Assembly at Attucks High School
The Attucks High School sophomore class hosts a Christmas Assembly at 2 30 p m Friday in Carbondale. Group singing opens, Edward Blythe reads the Christmas Story, Julia Thomas and Brenda Devers sing O Holy Night, the German class performs Silent Night, readings by Jewell Lewis and Henry Slaughter, and all students finish with Christmas songs.
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Carbondale Attucks High School
Edward Blythe
Julia Thomas
Brenda Devers
Jewell Lewis
Henry Slaughter
Carols to Ring in Three Tongues in Carbondale
Christmas carols will be heard in three languages in Carbondale on December 18 as University High School foreign language students sing in French Spanish and Latin. The group will start at 6 pm and perform about an hour before going to sponsor Mrs Evelyn Rieke for refreshments.
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Carbondale
University High School
Clu
Evelyn Rieke
Murphysboro Meistersingers Prepare Holiday Program
Murphysboro Township High School Meistersingers finalizing numbers for a 7 30 p m Monday Christmas program in the high school auditorium. William Wetherington directs the choir with seven holdovers from last year among 39 members. Sixteen band members join in robes for dual roles as singers and instrumentalists. Kay and Pat Presley twins senior J B Duncan and Tom Jewell sing and perform in the band with a coronet trio in Buglers Holiday. The hour long concert features band first then Meistersingers then band again with traditional Christmas music.
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Murphysboro Township
Meistersingers
William Wetherington
Kay
Pat Presley
J. B. Presley
Pat
Meistersinger
J. B. Duncan
Clementine Duncan
Tom Jewell
E. G. Jewell
J. B
Tom
Buglers
Ted Saylor
Charles Payne
Royal Flying Doctor Service flies 56,000 miles in 1956
In South Australia Royal Flying Doctor Service aircraft logged over 56 000 miles during 1956 to reach patients in remote areas. About 170 flights answered radio requests for urgent medical help across the state.
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South Australia
Royal Flying Doctor Service
Burton Zwick Wins Voice of Democracy Contest
Burton Zwick a Herrin High School junior won the Herrin Junior Chamber of Commerce Voice of Democracy contest earning 25 dollars and entry to the state contest. Finalists included Linda Bione and Beverly Newlin with prizes of 10 and 5 dollars respectively. Thirteen speeches were entered with judges listed and notes on past winners.
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Burton Zwick
Herrin High School
Voice of Democracy
Herrin Junior Chamber of Commerce
Zwick
Leon Zwick
S. 6Th
Larry Hampton
Linda Bione
Washington, D. C
School Plans Due at CCHS Board Meeting Thursday
Revised plans for an addition to Carbondale Community High School will be presented to the Board of Education Thursday at about 7 30 p m after a joint dinner with the Grade School Board. A report on enrollment prospects by a Southern Illinois University graduate student will also be presented.
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Carbondale Community High School
Board of Education
CCHS
Southern Illinois University
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U. S
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