1930 Cedrus Yearbook

Music T HE Department of Music, under the direction of Professor Lydia A. Berk- ley, assisted by Mrs. Helen Laughlin Corry, is located in the Carnegie Library. Professor Berkley, who is a graduate of Lincoln Conservatory of Music, and has taken work at the Hiram Conservatory and that of Oberlin, offers courses in Organ and Piano. Professor Corry, the voice instructor, is a grad- uate of the college of Wooster. The Girls' Glee Club, trained by Professor Berkley, is made up of about thirty voices. The Boys' Glee Club, under the same direction, is made up of about twenty voices. Although the latter club was late in starting, it has added pep to the Music Department. During the latter part of February, the Girls' Glee Club gave a concert of beautiful pieces in the First Presbyterian Church. It was well attended and enjoyed by all. The Music Department offers courses in Public School Music, Notation, Harmony, History, Theory, Sight Reading, and Ear Training as well as the more ordinary courses in practice on the use of the instruments and voice. Those who are pupils in the department enjoy the work very much and wish here to express their appreciation of the splendid work of their instructors. Seminary T HE smallest department of our school, but by far not the least, is the semi- nary. This department can truly claim the benefit of the age old proverb, "Good goods is done in small packages." Although the seminary enrollment is small the courses are thorough and handled by able men whose teaching and example can strictly be followed into a deeper and fuller life of Christian service. We do not feel discouraged on account of the small enrollment since there has been a scarcity of young men and women entering in this type of life service and in all similar departments of other schools there is the same condition. We do, however, look forward to a decided turn toward vocations of a spiritual nature and a marked growth of this department. We urge that any young person preparing for a great service for the "Master" will take advantage of the opportunities offered here and sit at the feet of those able instructors from whom, we feel has gone out, great powers "Pro Christo et Patria." H. M. Fifty-two