Brodhead High School - Red B Yearbook (Brodhead, WI)

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First row Qleft to right! : Alvin Arnold, Caroline Jones, William Schrader, Shirley Ruef, Arthur Riese, Geraldine Bramble, Edward Swartzg second row: Richard Olsen, Donna Jones, Jerry Christensen, Gerald Foss, Lorraine Zimmerli, Gweneth Fleming, Jeanine Main, Carl Roderick, Jake Schlittler, Bruce Peterson, Miss Prestong third row: Myrna Walmer, Donna Eidahl, Marion Thostenson, Lorraine Vigdahl, Faith Hageman, Marty Peterson, Jeanette Stuessy, Thomas Edgar, Duane Niedermeier, Robert Mey- thaler. SENIOR CLASS PLAY EVER SINCE EVE cAs'r OF CHARACTERS Johnny Clover, editor of the Penguin ............................ ................... A 1't Riese Spud Erwin, business manager of the Penguin ..... ..................... E d Swartz Susan Blake, assistant editor of the Penguin .. ........ Geralding Bramble Margaret Roberts Lucybelle Lee, Southern Hirt ................-...,........ .................. J ean Main Betsy Erwin, Spud's talkative sister ......................... ..................,........ G wen Fleming- lVIr. Clover, Johnny's absent-minded father ..............................,........... William Schrader Mrs. Clover, Johnny's mother ............................................ Shirley Ruef, Caroline Jones Miss Willard, teacher who believed in women in business ....,........... Lorraine Zimmerli Mr. Quinn, superintendent against women in business ............................ Jake Schlittler Preston Hughes, youthful stuffed shirt ........................................................ Alvin Arnold Ofiicer Simmons, a policeman ...................................................................... Carl Roderick Football Players fwho appear in one scenej ............ Jerry Christensen, Richard Olsen Gerald Foss, Larry Morgan, Robert Meythaler Bruce Peterson, Duane Niedermeier Time: Present. The Place: Johnny's office in his father's house in Preston, a small suiburban town. Although there was difficulty in getting our cast to settle down to business we managed to give the performances on November 27 and 28. The plot of our play centered around the troubles of Johnny Clover and Spud Erwin, editor and business manager of their High School paper, The Penguin. The troubles are because of a girl, Susan Blake, who has high pressured herself into the position of assistant editor. Be- cause girls never do have any sense Susan almost bankrupts the Pen- guin and nearly lands them all in jail. Adding to their woes, especially Susan's, is the new girl, Lucybelle Lee, a southern belle to whose charms both boys succumb-with near dual results. But due to the help of Betsy and Susan, Lucybelle is found out in the end. Johnny's absent-minded father, Mr. Clover, straightens everything out in the end when he visited the editor of a big city paper who Wanted to use Johnny as a correspondent reporter.

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f FORENSIC SEASON, 1954 The fact that the 1954 forensic season has been one of our most successful ones is attested to by the following facts: flj that more students than ever participated in the speech contests, C21 that the judge of our local contest fMr. Ronald Gee of the University Speech Departmentj pronounced it to be one of the best local contests he had ever judgedg f3J that eight out of the eleven local winners achieved A ratings at the league contestsg Q41 that three of these league win- ners won A rating at the district meetg C53 that two of these three state contestants were awarded the final A rating and the gold medal which represents top state forensic honors, while the other one of the three won a B rating and silver medal. The three state finalists were Jeanine Main, Dianne Smith, both in the field of extemporaneous reading, and Jon Sveom in serious declama- tion. Jeanine and Dianne, both seniors and both in their fourth year of forensic competition, were the gold medal winners. Jon, a sophomore, in his second year of competition, won the silver medal. Both Jeanine and Dianne have established new records in B.H.S. forensics. Dianne was the first student ever to win through to the state contest when she was a Freshman or ever to attain that honor in three different years. Jeanine is the first student in Brodhead's forensic history to Win the final A rating and the gold medal more than once, achiev- ing this honor both in 1953 and 1954. Contestants who won an A rating in both local and league con- tests, being stopped only at the district meet, were Peggy Roberts, Shir- ley Ruef, Doris Buehler, Carolyn Olson, and David Pfisterer. Sonja Leatherman, Judy Lee, and Beverly Mau were also winners in the local contest but received B ratings in the league contests. Other students who survived local eliminations and qualified for the final local contest were Bernice Weibel, David Clark, Carolyn Pin- now, Geraldine Bramble, Marjorie Deppeler, Judy Brager, and Patricia Blobaum. X

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'i lm Left to right: Duane Lederman, Jerry Christensen, King Richard Olsen, Jake Schlittlcr, William Schrader and Hugh Roberts. unior P rom, IQ53 April In Paris was the theme of our Junior Prom held on April 24, 1953 at which time the couples danced to the music of Richard Kent and his orchestra from Milwaukee. , The gymnasium was transformed into a miniature Paris. Highlights were: Mrs. Burt's painting of Paris at one end of the gymg a park scene and a cafe scene under the balconyg grape vines and sketches of girls' formals adorning the balcony, and, fthanks to many travel agenciesj several beautiful posters and paintings to further add to the balcony decorations. The outstanding architectural masterpieces included replicas of the Eiffel Tower and the Arch of Triumph, one at either side of the stage. Outlining the orchestra was the half circle design fdrmed by the theme. . Paintings on the south windows were those of Louis XIV and a fashionable French lady, the remaining windows having complimentary French store window displays and flags, beneath which were typical French awnings and a colorful flower-laden stone wall. The score board was adequately concealed by gloomy gray gargoyles. X