Lustre News
First, we begin with a correction to last week’s column. The LCHS concert choir was directed by Mindy Olfert, as well as the jazz ensemble. The band was directed by Pastor Wayne Hathaway. The choir received an Excellent rating in both their performance and in sight-reading. The concert band earned superior rating in their pieces at district and superior in their sight-reading.
LCHS students, accompanied by Mindy Olfert, went to Billings on May 2-3 for State Music Festival. The following earned superior ratings on their entries at both district and state: the LCHS men’s ensemble, the trumpet trio (Lauren Fast, Abby and Diek Olfert), the LCHS ladies’ ensemble, Mason Hilkemann, Alto Sax solo; Lauren and Nathan Fast, vocal duet; Bryan Ewing, solo, Lauren Fast and Holly Hilkemann brass duet; TJ Cumpio, vocal solo; LCHS jazz ensemble. Earning a superior at district and an excellent at state were Ashtyn Traeholt and Justice Byers in a vocal duet.
Given an excellent rating on their entries at district festival were Hannah Brown and Jaden Gibson in a vocal duet; Justice Byers, alto saxophone solo; Rachel Pew, vocal solo; Hannah Brown, Lauryn Holzrichter, Sidney Klatt, Ashtyn Traeholt, Monica Uy, flute quintet and Mason and Holly Hilkemann singing Fly me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra.
Of the 18 entries made at district, 10 qualified to go on to state. Mindy Olfert said she was “really proud of the kids. Their musicianship was of high caliber,” but she was “more proud of how they carried themselves, being kind and polite to strangers. They were exemplary, as Christ, in their behavior.” She said their musicianship and sight reading were “a testament to their former music teachers” in their schooling. “They worked hard at their music and learned a large amount of music in a short amount of time.”
Missionary Leslie “Les” Paul Zerbe, 78, died April 30, in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was a graduate of LCHS in 1964.
Graduation at LCHS is May 18. The speaker, chosen by the graduates, will be Dan Marasco, their former math and Bible teacher, now a music and youth pastor in Pennsylvania.
