Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 30 Mar 1939, p. 74

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been aevoting its tlents to nLU music. At that- time, solely upon thé initiativè of its undergraduate officers, the. club resolved to devote, itself. entirely to good music.- It threw aiside the pleasant, but es- sentiafly conventional and conimon- place music which college, glee clubs have always sung, .divorced itself from thé banjo and -nandolin clubs of the college and undertook the singing of llrst-rate mu-,ic, classical and modern, and suddenly found it- self,.one of the outstanding male choruses >of! the country. Shzg Flnest ýMaslc The programs of the club are de- voted entirely to good music, an- vient and moernnPT such as the the club ii e traced tc hibald T.1 benefit ana mnterestto near Willama E. Die, director o! the Mid-West office of the League of Nations asso- ciation, speak on "'Which Way Amer-' ican NeutralityT". Mr. Diez will speak on April 17 under the auspices: of the Junior Aux-. mlary of the Woman's Club of Wil- mette. This will be the second of ýa series of three lectures. . Because of his sound fundamental training in the field of world affairs and because of his opportunities for recelving accurate and reliable ini- formation on the course of develop- mentsIin-hentenationaI scene, Mr. Diez is in a position to speak on a subject that is of vital interest to Sana ýe in * Staff Photo With. two chisels and mallet, plus large quântities of patience anci pergeverance, Rudolph Lind-, quist (above) gardner for Mrs. William G.* Hibbard, 840 WiIlow road, Winnetka, worked in spare moments over a period o! four years building this unique.,grand- father cloclc, (side, which he equipped with eight-<i'y 'works, chimes,etc. The case, highly polished, was made from a six anid one-haif foot section of a fine old red oak the south side of Willow road, near Birc1i street. According to the rings of the tree it was ap- ki proximately 140 years old; The section which Mr. Lindquist used, well uxp on the trunk where the larger liînbs grew, was 16 inches in diameter. With chisels and mallets the section was hollowed out for the ltheU the , as 716. H-eid at Soldiers -FielId Aug. ~'Mr. Lindquist not only installed the works, but also made the chimes, using brass tubirig, eut to precision measurenient to give the desired tones. ,Maklng dlocks is his hobby, Mr. Lindquist admits, as he displays several other timepieces, cases. of %I-- C=*. - U staff on Anusai Music ES TATE

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