Chisholm High School - Ranger Yearbook (Chisholm, MN)

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, - Q1 it Top Picture Standing: Albert Samsa, John Pahule, James Bryan, Lloyd Johnson, John Cawley, William Bradley, Don Wilson. Sitting: Alvar Humppi, Robert Powers, Leontina Castagneri, Ellamae Anderson. Bottom Picture Standing: Ralph B drica, Lauretta Eddy, Alan Humphreys, Wayne Nisula, William Bradley. Sitting: Swen Saar, Betha Giffei. Iohn Cawley, Leontina Castagneri, Esther Leino. OUR PLAYS- BELLE LAMAR AND THE NUT F ARM Every year we have two plays here at Chisholm High. For the all-school play on December 5, Miss Virginia McNicholas, our director, chose Belle Lamar , a Civil War drama. Ellamae Anderson and John Cawley had the star roles of Isabelle Lamar and Philip Bligh. It was a story of a Southern belle married to a. Northern army of- ficer. The plot involved spies, soldiers, and faithful servants. Leontina Castagneri and Robert Mueller played to perfection the roles of Irish Honor McQuade and black Uncle Dan. Lloyd Johnson as Corporal Renny O'Shea humorously marshalled soldiers Albert Samsa, Alvar Hum ppi, John Pahule, Robert Powers and -James Bryan. William Bradley, William Verant, Donald Kaliin, Richard Johnson, Don Wilson, and Kenneth McDougall were Un- ion officers. I know you would have enjoyed The Nut Farm , the senior class play presented on May 22. The story was that of the Barton family of Newark who came to Hollywood, the city of glamor. The daughter became movie- struck: and Willie, the black sheep, turned out to be the hero by directing her drama into a farce. John Cawley as Willie, Alan Humphreys as the author, Mr. Biddeford, and Swen Saari as Farmer Sliscomb portrayed their hu- morous roles excellently. Other members of the cast were Esther Leino, Leontina Castagneri, Betha Giffei, Laur- etta Eddy, William Bradley, Ralph Baldrica, and Wayne Nisula.

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Top row Verant Rudstrom Cvar McDougall Cawley, Baldrica. Second row Auble Johnson Borgeson Kalun Prebil, Bradley, Cole. First row Roberts Haraden Stamch Eddy Anderson, Castagneri, Hulme, Tuman. THE NATIONAL F ORENSIC LEAGUE WAS BUSY The members of the National Forensic League went to the speech tourney at Clo- quet and came back State Champions. John Cawley, the president, won first place in or- atory and William Bradley, the vice-presi- dent, was elected president of the Student Congress. Doris Stanich was second in dramatic reading, and Richard Johnson was fourth in oratory. Besides gathering hon- ors, everyone had a good time eating green ice cream and playing the nickleodean tunes of Coosee Coo and Livit I Finske- garna at the Dairy Inn. But perhaps y0u'd like to know more about the league itself. To be a member, a person must be in the upper two-thirds of his class and must have earned twenty forensic points, which will earn him a degree of merit. The league encourages advancement by offering the following degrees for various points: de- gree of honor, fifty points: degree of excel- lence, one hundred points, degree of dist- inction, one hundred fifty points. John Cawley established a new school record by chalking up 357 points, which was 53 points higher than that of the former champ, Ber- nard Hoberman. The league members entered many de- bates and declamatory contests, amassing 1,447 points this year to bring Chisholm's total to 2,208, At left, is a picture of the Christmas tab- leaux, which was directed by Miss Virginia McNicholas.

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Top picture Back row: Lahti, Kotchevar, Prebil, Regis, Baldrica, Palcich, Hathaway, Borgeson, Johnson, Eddy, Borken. First row: Vuicich, Giffei, Leino, Humphreys, Dinger, Alto, Koscak. Bottom picture Top row: Eddy, Hathaway, Cawley, McDougall, Baldrica, Feller. Second row: Vuicich, Ruosch, Johnson, Prebil, Mueller, Kotchevar. First row. Kapa, Gerzin, Alto, Giffei, Leino, Koscak, Kangas. OUR QUILL AND SCROLL CHAPTER AND RANGER STAFF Now I'll introduce you to the publishers of this year's book, the RANGER staff. Although only nine- teen in number, they published three literary issues of the RANGER, ten of the BLUE STREAK, our school paper, and a forty-eight page annual. Betha Giffei was our annual editor this year. Under her guidance, writers, artists, and photographers worked hard to bring our book to a high level. Mavis Alto edited our literary issue of the RANGER. These featured the best essays and poems written by the stud ents in school. The BLUE STREAK rose to a new level this year, with Esther Leino as editor. Homecoming at school was featured with a big seventeen-page BLUE STREAK. Miss Margaret Darling, whom you can see in the picture of the mimeograph room on the opposite page, is adviser of all publications. Above, you see our Quill and Scroll society consisting of twenty-one members chosen for their literary and scholastic abilities. It is really an honor for budding journalists to be admitted to this group- On March 31, a formal initiation was held in the high school gym.