College of Music Willamette University Salem, Oregon Commencement 1908CLOSING RECITALS and COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES of the COLLEGE OF MUSIC WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY SALEM, OREGON 19 08 DR. R. A. HERITAGE, DeanCLASS ROLL CERTIFICATE MARGUERITE MERS, Voice EDNA EARLE BROWNING, Voice ANNA FRANCES JACKSON, Piano DIPLOMA MAY LOUISE HART, Piano NINA PEARL JOHNSON, Voice RUTH FIELD, Voice and Piano HELEN ISABEL GOODENOUGH, Voice MOTTO “Art of arts—surpassing art.”CLOSING RECITAL (VOCAL DEPARTMENT) DR. RICHARD A. HERITAGE DIRECTOR UNIVERSITY CHAPEL FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1908 (at 8 o’clock) “program Crown of Reward Heath Pupils of Children's Class Even Bravest Heart Gounod Will A. Baller Mission of the Rose Cowen Eleanor Colony The Waiting Heart Torry Mabel Kingsbury Down in the Depths Kreusch Paul T. Anderson The Sweetest Flower Metcalf Good Night, Little Girl Macy Agnes B. Lindahl Gayly Chant Ye Summer Birds De Pinna Bessie Cornelius Ah! ’Tis a Dream Lassen Still as the Night Bohm Wilford G. Booth Sunshine and Rain Blumenthal Martha Bowerman A Spanish Gypsy Parker Myrtle Johnson The Hour of Sweet Repose Howe Alice M. Judd Love’s Enchantment Batten Could I ? Tosti Mrs. W. Mason Bishop ► Steinway Concert Grand Piano kindly furnished by Geo. C. Will.CLOSING RECITAL (GRADUATE) Nina Pearl Johnson Helen I. Goodenough Ruth Field UNIVERSITY CHAPEL THURSDAY EVE, JUNE 4, 1908 (AT 8 O’CLOCK) Program Magnetic Waltz Song Arditi Miss Johnson Andante in F Beethoven Miss Field Charlet Horn Glover Mrs. Goodenough As the Dawn Cantor A Garden of Love D’Hardelot At Parting Rogers Miss Johnson Etudes (Opus 25. Nos. 1, 10 and 9) Chopin Miss Field At Night Fall Metcalf In My Garden Lyddle Four-Leaf Clover Brownell Mrs. Goodenough Rec. and Aria (Queen of Sheba) Gounod Miss Johnson Tremolo Gottschalk Miss Field Rec. and Aria (Ernani) Verdi Mrs. Goodenough May L. Hart, Accompanist. Steinway Grand kindly furnish by Geo. C. Will.CLOSING RECITAL (graduate) MA Y L. HART RUTH FIELD UNIVERSITY CHAPEL WEDNESDAY EVE, JUNE 10, 1908 (at 8 O’CLOCK) Program My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice Saint Saens Miss Field Sonata Pathetique Beethoven Miss Hart Flowers Awake Warner Little Boy Blue D’Hardelot Serenade Schubert Miss Field Rustle of Spring Sinding Miss Hart The Flight of Ages Bevan Miss Field Valse, C sharp Minor Chopin Etude, Op. 10, No. 12 Chopin Etude, Op. 10, No. 5 Chopin Miss Hart Scene and Aria (Favorita) Donizetti Miss Field 'Lie-best ra.um No. 3 Liszt Miss Hart Arthur von Jessen, Accompanist. Steinway Grand Piano kindly furnished by the Geo. C. Will Music House.CLOSING RECITAL (post-graduate) MERNIE HUG LILY STEGE UNIVERSITY CHAPEL THURSDAY EVE, JUNE 11, 1908 (AT 8 O’CLOCK) Program When the Heart is Young Buck Mernie Hug Canzonetta D’Ambrosio Lily Stege At Length a Brilliant Ray Rossini Mernie Hug Ninth Concerto De Beriot Lily Stege Sweet the Angelus Was Ringing Oberti He Comes No More Mattel Mernie Hug Humoreske. Dvorak Lily Stege Rec., Aria and Cabaletto (Traviatta) Verdi Mernie Hug Scherzo Goens Lily Stege Ave Maria, 2nd Prelude Bach-Gounod Mernie Hug and Lily Stege Arthur von Jessen., Accompanist Steinway Grand Piano furnished by the Geo. C. Will Music House.CLOSING RECITAL (piano department) MR. ARTHUR von JESSEN DIRECTOR GRAND OPERA HOUSE MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 15 (AT 2:15 O’CLOCK) Program Flower Song Lange Beth Wild a Bedford Feehnreigen Reissiger Prescilla Fleming Simple Aveu Thome Helen Deckebach Berceuse Godard Frances Beatty Minuet Mozart Franc Newman Lolita Liebling Margery Wilson Polka de la Cour Bendel Carrie Hawthorne 2nd Mazurka Godard Sadie Hornibrook Nocturne in F Sharp Chopin LELA NOREEN T ARP LEY Prelude in C sharp Minor Rachmaninoff Robert S. Eakin Polonaise in C sharp Minor Chopin Laura Fastabend Weber Grand Pianos from the Studios of the CollegeCOMMENCEMENT EXERCISES COLLEGE OF MUSIC WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY SALEM, OREGON GRAND OPERA HOUSE MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, 1908 (at 8:15 o’clock) Program Rec. and Aria (Lombardi) Verdi Marguerite Mers Romance in E flat Rubenstein Anna Frances Jackson Scene and Aria (Ernani) Verdi Helen Isabel Goodenough Ballade in A flat Chopin Bertha Jennings Rec. and Romanza (Queen of Sheba) Gounod Nina Pearl Johnson Concerto in G Minor Mendelssohn Molto Allegro, Andante, Finale, Presto May L. Hart Ruth Field (Second Piano, Orchestral Score, Mr. \on Jessen) Scene and Prayer (Der Freyschutz) Weber Edna Earle Browning Rigoletto Verdi-Liszt Mrs. H. L. Ross Rec., Aria and Cabaletta (Traviata) Verdi Mernie Alberta Hug Presentation of Class Dean R. A. Heritage Conferring Certificates, Diplomas and Degrees.... President Fletcher Homan Weber Grand Pianos from the Studios of the CollegePUPILS OF 1907-8 (Private Lessons Only) Anderson, Arta Anderson, Edna L. Anderson, Paul T. Aral, Pauline M. Ashby, Lois M. Bailer, Will. A. Beatty, Frances Beckley, Hettie C. Bedford, Beth Wilda Belknap, Carrie N. Belknap, F. G. Belknap, Stella P. Bentley, Charlie Bisbee, Royal D. Bishop, Mrs. Mason Blaylock, T. R. Bohannon, Cecil Booth, Wolford G. Bowden, Florence Bowerman, Martha Brown, Katherine Browning, Edna E. Burton, John P. Butler, Birdie E. Byars, Allan H. Campbell, Irene Campbell, Irma Carlson, Mildred Catlow, Chester Chamberlin, Wellei Colony, Eleanor Cornelius, Bessie Crocker, Edna May Cross, Veda Mae Curtis, Tommy Daughertj r , Elmer Deckebacli, Frederic Deckebach, Helen Doege, R. G Eakin, Robert S. Elmore, Ruby Eyre, Charles Farrington, Laura Fastabend, Laura Field, Ruth Fisher, lone P. Fleming, Prescilla Givens, T. E. Goodenough, Helen Hadley, Morton Haid, Usona Hart, May L. Hawley, Alsea Hawley, Homer Hawthorne, Carrie Hofer, Marie A. Hornibrook, Sadie Hoyt, Merton L. Hug, Mernle A. Hughes, J. Frank Isham, Mary Jackson, Anna F. Jacobs, Ludwig G. James, Myrta Jennings, Bertha Johnson, Gladys Johnson, Myrtle Johnson, Nina P. Jones, Mrs. J. T. Judd, Alice M. Keizer, Cornelia Kingsbury, Mabel Kippin, Earl Lardon, Rhoda K. Lindahl, Agnes Lloyd, Mabel Lloyd, V. Lee Lord, ElizabethPUPILS OF 1906-8—Concluded Lord, Wm. P. Jr. Lucas, Mildred Lundell, A. W. McEvoy, Agnes McPeek, Fleda Mann, Nora L. Mason, R. L. Mason, Thomas Maurer, Pansy Mers, Marguerite Miller, Nettie Moreland, Lueen Munson, Harry Mussell, Cora Mussell, Myrtle Muths, Emma E. Newman, Franc Norberg, Elizabeth Pierce, Edwin W. Reddekopp, Elizabeth Roberts, F. B. Ross, Mrs. H. L. Rudolph, Alice Runcorn, Mollie Savage, Edna A. Schindler, Freida Schindler, Martha Serrurier, Florence Skiff, George F. Smith, Helen Mar Snelling, Laura Soesbe, Arthur Sonneman, Clara Spalding, Lila Stege, Lily Stoudenmeyer, H. N. Strang, Archie A. Swart, Addie Swart, Renska Swart, Wikje Tarpley, Lela Trill, Wallace G. Turner, Joy Wainscott, Clyde Walton, Nellie Wann, Mary B. Wilson, Della Wilson, Margery Wolverton, Leto Wood, Marie Woolf, Viola Fisher Young, Josephine Choir, 36 members. Philharmonic, 42 members Apollo Club, 16 members. Childrens’ Class, 14 members. Quartettes, 8 members.