East Grand Forks High School - Memories Yearbook (East Grand Forks, MN)

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Speech ac... 'T -.....,T-q Y LEFT T0 RIGHTAhIrIoy Hannon, Barbara Jacobs, Melvin Tabert, Young, Joe Musee, Mn. Margaret Dunnigan tCoach3, Jack Carney, Dorothy Harney, Carol Settevig. my . I ABSENT-Patsy Mclsaac. W 1 TH 6. l l I . iwwe Declamauon Team lw This declamation team of six members won decisively at the district speech contest held in East Grand Forks on March 20th. Shirley Hanson, a senior, was the extemporaneous speaker. After winning the district contest with an excellent rating, she traveled to Bagley for the regional contest, where she also received an excellent rating. Barbara Jacobs, a senior, also advanced to the regional contest after winning the district with her humorous reading, Arsenic and Old Lace. Donna Young, a junior, made a good showing at the district contest by receiving an excellent rating on her dramatic interpretation of Patterns, Carol Settevig, a sophomore, added points to the winner's total by doing a splendid job in manuscript reading, for which she received an excellent rating. Patsy Mclsaac did a fine job discussing the problems of Russia with other contestants in this division. The discussion group is a new division in speech contests and will be continued in future years, Another new division in Minnesota speech contests was the District Play Contest, held a few weeks previous to the speech contest. The cast of Goodnight Caroline, which took third place in the district, included Barbara Jacobs, Jack Carney, Melvin Tabert, and Dorothy Harney. Joe Massee, a junior, competed in original oratory, another junior, Jack Carney, entered the memorized oratory section. These boys advanced from the district to the regional contest, where they both received ratings of superior. Our school feels very proud of these boys for doing such praiseworthy work. These goals attained by our high school students could not have materialized had it not been for the excellent direction of Mrs. Margaret Dunnigan. .63.

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junior Activities LEFT T0 RIGHT-Donna Mae Gilbertson, Banquet Managerg Herman Skyberq, Jr., and Joyce Bridqeford, Co - Prom Managers: Miss Grace Halcrow, Junior Advisor. The Promfb anquet For weeks ahead of time junior committees are busy organizing and exe- cuting plans for the biggest event of their school year, and one of the biggest events of their whole school careers - The Prom, a glorious occasion which culminates the junior year and tops all other conversational topics for days. This year's extravaganza of color and beauty will be Rainbow Revelry. Here beneath iridiscent streamers and shimmering stars the juniors and their guests will sit down to a banquet fit for the gods and later will dance to the blissful strains of a carefully concealed orchestra hidden at the end of the rainbow. Spotlights will pick up the dancers as they promenade across the floor in the traditional grand march and spectators will gaze with rapture and envy at the beautiful gowns which will vie in color and hue with the rainbows above. Q 0

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GOODNIGHT CAROLlNE MISS DOROTHY BERGE the new speech and English CAST: burglar, Melvin Tabert, Caroline Barbara Jacobs f9 MISS Berge has a B A degree from Carleton Col e Eugene O'Neil's dramatic play, WHERE THE CROSS WAS MADE, was also given. The cast included George Stewart, who played the lead at Nat, Ruth Fleming, as Nat's sister, Richard Keller, as the father, and William Braden, as the doctor. No pictures of this play are shown.