Coachella Valley Union High School - La Conchilla Yearbook (Coachella, CA)

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left to right: ROW 'l: Virginia Shea, Betty Lendrum, Jackie Savant, Gayle Emmerling, Barbara Newcomb, Sarah Swingle, Shirley Stephens, Becky Allison, Charlene Nelson, Gail Moore. ROW 2: Joe Devery, Earleen Churchill, Ken Miller, Bill Roberts, Ralph Jarvis, Harry Woolpert, Winn Moore, Virginia Schrock, Winnette Andrews, Gary Olesen, Tony Freeman, Herb Pixley, Miss Elaine Buttrud. Act well your part . . . therein all the honor lies. Upholding this, their motto, the C.V. Thespians have successfully completed another active year under the sponsorship of Miss Elaine Buttrud. To start things off with a bang, an informal initiation was held at the Norris Ranch last fall. A theater party at the production of Green Valley was the first event the new members enjoyed. Then in December when the Junior Class Play made more actors eligible for membership in the Nat- ional Thespian Society, a formal initiation for twenty members was held at Rancho Carrillo on December 13. Mary McLaughlin entertained the group with a variety of monologues. Next on the agenda was the fifth annual Thes- pian One-Act Play Festival, which was presented on January 8. Three one-act plays were dramatized, fl KR including: A Young Man's Fancy, The Case of the ll Weird Sisters, and The Castle of Mr. Simpson. The A 5 weird sisters will long be remembered for their eerie ij hallucinations, , N j The Happy Time was chosen by the Thespians V l ' jq for their second theater party of the year, so they 5 traveled to the Palm Springs Playhouse, which is a 5 theater-in-the-round, to see it. It was especially in- teresting to them because the same technique of act- ing was used as that to be used in C.V.'s new patio playhouse. The Thespians were eager and anxious to make use of this new patio theater, and many plans for production were budding as the second semester rolled around. During the spring quarter the Thespians attended a Shakespearean play at the Pasadena Playhouse and also saw the Ramona Play. The year ended with a party in honor of the graduating Thespians.

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By looking at these tired usherettes, Barbara Allen, and Annette Thibault, one can easily estimate how big the Spring Concert crowd was. Here is the concert band around the time of the presentation of the Music Department's Christmas Program. The band's most notable number at that program was Yule Tidings March, a medley of Christmas favorites. The band was also heard at the Fair where they presented a concert for fairgoers. ln March, they favored the Spring Concert audience with such numbers as Ritual Fire Dance, Aurora Overture, and Band Sonata. ln the far left-hand part of the picture you can see their director, Donald Schofield. crowd is Philip Carrasco and Margaret McCallister take a little stroll through the park. The Spring Concert entertained by Jim Douglas, Pat Becker, Frank Gillespie, and Jerry Callis, while Jim Hagerty tickles the ivories. PAGE 52

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CALIFORNIA SCHOLARSHIP FEDERATION -- Left to right: ROW I: Don Dobbs, Don Cochran, Annette Thibault, Barbara Allen, Gail Moore, Charlene Nelson, Barbara Newcomb, Becky Allison, Margit Chiriaco, Ann Kennedy, Marie Davidson, Virginia Rector, Pamela Williams, Pat Becker, Dickie Matsuishi, Jesse A. Perez. ROW 2: Nancy Dengler, Sylvia Vince, Helen Whitermore, Theresa Pacella, Elizabeth Peabody, Judy Frantzreb, Donna Neher, Royann King, Kezia Cryar, Deanna Newell. BACK ROWS: Mr. Keller, Harry Ramsey, Bobby Cox, Larry Lichty, Ben Montoya, Daniel Moore, Elizabeth Misenheimer, Howard McCook, Carolyn Brumwell, Ann Macpherson, Dick Blocher, Beverly Kelting, Joy Oshiki, Shirley Stephens, Bob Rodgers, Rita Yoxsimer, Daryl Firth, Carole Welch, Bob Walker, Jim Hagerty. The California Scholarship Federation, headed by Becky Allison, began the '52-'53 year with a gratify- ing membership of 35. To give Becky the assistance she needed were Harry Woolpert, vice-president, Bar- bara Newcomb, secretary, Margit Chiriaco, treasurer. Richard M. Keller continued as CSF advisor and helped' the society to one of its best years. Harry Woolpert headed both fund-raising proiects of the year. He achieved remarkable success in his pie-auctioneering efforts, which resulted in the pies selling like hot cakes. The program sales at football games also netted record amounts. At the first appearance of snow on the mountains, the braintrusters exchanged their school books for sleds and spent a happy day in the snow. f 'X ,J .A ii if 7. -1 cc i 2' 1792 N 'J Sierra Madre One of the highlights of the year was the second semester init lation This frollcsome affair add ed 21 new members bringing the total to 56 a new high After the formal initiation each brainlet was provided with a dunce cap and a pair of scholarly looking pipe cleaner spectacles Through out the day the initiates were seen bowing to old members, and the motto, Enter to learn, go forth to serve, was heard ringing through the halls of old C.V. The annual CSF writing contest was begun in March and winners were announced in early May. Plans for the spring field trip and party were also begun in March. For the first semester movie, the CSF members went Western and chose the thriller, The Treasure of V . . u . . . - ft! i . . . v V X! A i . - . S 4 7 PAGE 54 To draw their year's activities to a close the organization spon- sored a dramatic movie.