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!leu' j.C ftotu ;}••Orville Westberg"Have you heard the ~1ale Chorus?" This is quite a new but frequent question whichstudents ask. The group was organized in the spring of 1933 for the Pep Band Show ofthat year. Later it was made an official :\. S. . I. activity and started functioning thesucceeding f~ll as a permanent group with Orville Westberg as director and Harriet Bakenas accompaniSt.In December the first annual concert, "Musical Revue," was staged in the auditorium.Part one depicted a musical voyage to different countries with appropriate songs. Part twofollowed the theme of a Christmas serenade, and last came some pep with the presentationof the songs of several famous universities. The novel way of presenting such an organizationwon much applause from the audience.A.t the end of the first semester, Professor Carl Claus of the music faculty was electedto the directorship because of the departure of Westberg for the East. Dr. F. C. Churchis faculty advisor for the chorus. The personnel follows: first tenors, Harold Boyd, JackEmahiser, Elburn Pierce, Frank Rosbach, J ack Franklin, :\I bert Blair, Stewart Brown,James Schick; second tenors, Wendell Olsen, Winston Goss, T ed Voightlander, WilliamH oover, Glenn Exum, Clayton Spear, J ohn Lloyd; first basses, Freel Rodgers, Parris Kail,Gene Saunders, Bill Cherrington, Donald Tracy, Freel Sanger, Robert Campbell, RobertSeymour, Bill Hudson, Robert Strawn; second basses, Bill Ames, Dick Edwards, LloydWhitlock, Samuel Stone, Bill vVood, Charles Thompson, Bill F urchner, Norval Ostroor.Fred Sanger is business manager of the Chorus.Third Row: \\'. Furchner, G. Saunders, R. Seymour, T. \'oightlander, H. Boyd, R. Edwards, E. Pierce, J. LloydSecond Row: R. Strawn, W. Goss, W. Hudson, F. Rodgers, G. Exum, L. Whitlock, \\'. Olsen, S. Stone, C. SpearFirst Row:A. Blair, J. Franklin, W. Cherrington,\\'. Ames, 0 . Westberg, Dr. F. C. Church, F. Sanger, R. Campbell, J. Schick•••••• *0( 166 }0