Chorus

The choral arts program exploded in our senior year, 1969–1970 under Mr. Madision Short. Where once there had been a rather small group of participants, Mr. Short went out and “recruited” (shanghaied) many more. He built several choruses, including the fabled Men’s Chorus, mostly with young men and women who hadn’t learned to read notes. Mr. Short had developed an innovative method of teaching voice to people who could not read sheet music or tell you the difference between a high C and a low D (outside of the definitions used to grade papers and tests, that is).